Wednesday, 19 March 2014
The 2014 NAATI Workshop schedule of programs has been released. Currently the workshops will be conducted in Queensland only. Several sessions are available for some course throughout the 2014 year. Here is a link to the schedule of courses:
Courses include:
- Translation test preparation
- Ethics & professional conduct for translators
- Interpreting in the health field
- Memory retention & note taking skills
- Insight into interpreting
- (building confidence in your interpreting skills, putting your skills into practice)
- Interpreting in the legal field
- Consecutive passages and sight translation intensive practice
- Business skills for translating and interpreting practitioners
- Translation passage assessment (mock test)
All workshops will be held at the Queensland Multicultural Centre, 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
Monday, 17 March 2014
We highly recommend a quick view of this video of the song Let It Go from Disney's film Frozen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE
This version of the song is sung in 25 different languages and an intriguing fact is each of the 25 languages were sung by a different person. It sounds so seamless and unified.
Of course many languages were omitted from the song. Enjoy hearing languages such as English, French, German, Dutch, Mandarin, Swedish, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Korean, Serbian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Bahasa Malaysia, Russian, Danish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Thai, Canadian French, and Flemish.
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Congratulations to our colleague Abdollah Kosari and Ghasem San'avi who received an award for the translation of Persian literature.
They are recipients of the Iran’s Dramatic Literature was held on 8th Saturday in Tehran.
Friday, 7 March 2014
March 8th is International Women's Day. Recognizing this day is significant for number of reasons. Here are a few:
1. 14 million girls — some as young as eight years old — will be married against their will in 2014.
2. An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked into slavery each year--80% are girls.
3. Gender equality continues to be a struggle for women around the world.