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Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, IAPTI was established on 30 September 2009. [3] Created by a group of professional language mediators as a vehicle for promoting ethical practices in translation and interpretation [4] and providing a forum for discussing problems typical of the globalized world, such as crowdsourcing, outsourcing, bad rates and other abuse. [5]
Luis de Torres (died 1493) was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage to America. De Torres was a converso , a Jewish person who was forced to convert to Christianity or be put to death according to the Spanish Inquisition , apparently born Yosef ben HaLevi HaIvri in Moguer , Spain.
Most of the early interpreters of the United Nations were natural polyglots who were uprooted by wars and revolutions. For years, the only criterion used to select potential interpreters was the knowledge of two international languages the interpreters had to communicate in. Polyglots were found mainly in privileged social groups, government employees and professionals in colonial empires, in ...
ATA Translation and Interpreting Compensation Survey is an industry-wide survey providing a comprehensive picture of the market for T&I services. The full report is free to ATA members. An Executive Summary is available at no cost to non-members. The ATA Compass is a free e-publication for buyers of translation and interpreting services.
The Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters (Spanish: Asociación Argentina de Traductores e Intérpretes, AATI) is an Argentine translation association. It is a member of the International Federation of Translators (FIT-IFT). AATI is a nonprofit organization with more than 40 years of history.
Medical interpreting is a subset of public service interpreting, consisting of communication among healthcare personnel and the patient and their family or among Healthcare personnel speaking different languages, facilitated by an interpreter, usually formally educated and qualified to provide such interpretation services.
[g] Even English does not always make the distinction, frequently using "translating" as a synonym for "interpreting." Interpreters have sometimes played crucial roles in human history. A prime example is La Malinche, also known as Malintzin, Malinalli and Doña Marina, an early-16th-century Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast.
The Toledo School of Translators (Spanish: Escuela de Traductores de Toledo) is the group of scholars who worked together in the city of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, to translate many of the Islamic philosophy and scientific works from Classical Arabic into Medieval Latin.