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Tag: Interpreter Tips

Professional phone interpreter taking a client call
  • Interpreters

Great Interpreting. Bad Audio. Guess What Clients Remember?

Clear, practical steps for phone interpreters to quickly diagnose and resolve audio issues during calls—ensuring smooth communication, minimizing disruption, and...
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Language Interpreter Community
  • Interpreters

Hard Work or Good Luck? The Secret to Building a Sustainable Interpreting Career

What does it take to build a sustainable interpreting career? Is it sheer elbow grease? A lucky break? The reality...

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Birds-eye view of a community of interpreters mingling.
  • Interpreters

Burned Out & Done with It: How Seeking Community Can Ease Interpreter Burnout 

When you dread the ringing phone, feel irritation bubbling up all the time, are so mentally drained at the end of the day that nothing...

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A compassionate interpreter sips coffee while studying at their laptop.
  • Interpreters

How Interpreters Can Compete with AI & Why an Advocacy Role Is Not the Best Answer

To compete with AI, some advice suggests that interpreters take on an advocacy role but doing so without established cause...
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A doctor who supports a medical interpreter's well-being shakes the interpreter's hand.
  • Healthcare/Medical Interpreting

The Well-Being of Medical Interpreters and How to Protect It

Help protect the well-being of your medical interpreting staff with these tips....
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An interpreter uses tone matching while on a phone call with a doctor and a patient with a non-English language preference.
  • Interpreters

Hold My Hand from Miles Away

Often how information is presented is just as important as what the information is. This is why, after 25+ years...
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A smiling interpreter reads The Remote Interpreter: An International Textbook, Vol. 1, Foundations in Remote Interpreting.
  • Interpreters

A New Tool for Your Interpreter Toolbox: The Remote Interpreter

The first-of-its-kind, highly anticipated textbook for remote interpreters is here, and we can't get enough....
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A grandmother and grandchild sit on a courtyard bench on a peaceful day and hold hands as they talk.
  • Interpreters

Eat Your Veggies and Respect Your Elders: How to Be Effective When Interpreting for Our Aging Population

Interpreting for the aging population can be challenging for a myriad of reasons. Some can’t hear well, some speak very...
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A compassionate mother smiles and hugs her child close while thinking of lessons learned as a parent and interpreter.
  • Interpreters

What Being a Parent Taught Me about Impartiality and Interpreting

Helen examines the through line of impartiality in her personal and professional life as an interpreter....
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A coffee cup sitting next to a laptop with a Zoom meeting in progress. The computer screen displays several people in the video call.
  • Interpreters

What Over-the-Phone Interpreters Need to Know about Interpreting over Video Platforms

Telephone interpreting is not isolated to the telephone anymore! You may end up interpreting over a video call, and we've...
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Five men jumping with excitement in a corridor over making their New Year’s resolution getting their medical interpreter certifications.
  • Interpreters

Here’s Why Medical Interpreter Certification Is the Perfect New Year’s Resolution

Finally! A New Year's resolution you can keep!...
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A few interpreter with lying awake in her bed from a nightmare. The covers are pulled up over her nose.
  • Interpreters

Bone-Chilling Nightmares that Will Make Any Remote Interpreter Tremble with Fear

Remote interpreters, what gives you nightmares?! Is it The Jokester? The Dreadful Disruptor? The Ghost Caller? All three?!...
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