Lessons from Grace
November 13, 2020
On a sunny fall day in 2013, I received a phone call from Grace. Who is Grace, you ask? It is hard to say who Grace is to me. She is a colleague, certainly. A mentor. A friend. My personal
No Pressure or Anything
July 3, 2020
7:30am I wake up with a quick, optimistic check to my inbox. No email. Oh well, I sigh. I wasn’t really expecting the results to come in that early. I roll over in bed. Thirty seconds go by. I check
Language Skills-Building for Interpreters
March 6, 2020
Interpreters face somewhat of a conundrum upon entering the profession. That is, we are expected to have “native-level” discourse and comprehension skills in all of our languages. Advertisements boast “perfect fluency,” and respectable interpreting courses necessarily steer their content away
Dispelling Myths About Study Buddies
October 5, 2018
As some of you are already aware, this September I embarked on the Master’s in Conference Interpreting program with Glendon College at York University. At the time of this posting, a month will have already gone by. Time flies when
The Final Frontier
September 7, 2018
I kind of feel like my fall should be entitled, Conference Interpreting: The Final Frontier. Because (that’s right, drum roll!) on September 10th I begin classes at Glendon College, York University, for the Master’s in Conference Interpreting (MCI) program. The
Hard Doesn’t Mean Impossible
April 6, 2018
This week it was my turn to post on the NAJIT blog, and I asked some of my colleagues what I should write about. I was told, “Don’t teach. Tell your story.” So here it is.
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Accuracy
anxiety
brain
Breaking it down
clarification
Comprehension
Conference
Confidence
Consecutive
Conundrums
Cultural exchange
Delivery
Ethics
exams
fear
French
Grad school
honest
humility
improvement
interpreting
Language
learning
Lessons
listening
LOTS
MCI
Memory
Mistakes
preparation
Resources
self-care
self-love
Simultaneous
Skill-building
skills
Spanglish
Spanish
Speed
Study tips
Terminology
Tests
Vicarious Trauma
Word choice
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