GSA Awards Contract with Best Spanish Translation Rates on the Schedule PR Web (press release) Trusted Translations , Inc., an SBA certified 8(a) company, was recently awarded a GSA Language Contract with highly competitive rates for more than 30 ... and more »
As a tribute to the remarkable historian Tony Judt, who died last week, we publish one of his final essays I was raised on words. They tumbled off the kitchen table on to the floor where I sat: grandfather, uncles and refugees flung Russian, Polish, Yiddish, French and what passed for English at one another in a competitive cascade of assertion and interrogation. Sententious flotsam f...
NIST Evaluates Smart Phone-based Language Translators Military Technologies (blog) Unfortunately, the US military is experiencing a significant shortage of trusted interpreters trained in the local languages. The smart phone devices will ...
Ben Goldacre\'s analysis of examination pass rates and grades ( Bad Science: Mystery of the A-level , 21 August) is to be welcomed, and he quite rightly considers a range of reasons for the increase in success rates. One significant factor, however, is not mentioned. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, grades were allocated by norm referencing, which ensured that every year the same percentage of candidates received grades A, B etc. This had the advantage of eliminating variations in the difficulty of individual questions and of whole papers, as it didn\'t matter whether one year\'s exam was harder or easier than the year before, since the same per...
Reuters Afghanistan: Hearts and Minds and Blood and Anger Huffington Post (blog) Two Spanish police and an interpreter were killed when an Afghan policeman they were training turned on them before he was shot dead, officials said, ... Afghanistan shooting sparks protests at Spanish base BBC News Afghan Police Trainee Kills Two Spanish Soldiers New Yor...
On the move: George Gkritzios, Key Language School Kyiv Post George Gkritzios was appointed senior tutor at Key Language School which offers language training, exam preparation courses, translation and proofreading ...
PQA Plus Webinars Aug. 25, 26 Pork Magazine To register and to find out more about computer requirements and cost, email Orlando Gil, Training and Translation Services, at translat @mtcnet.net or call ...
Washington Times DEA memo: Ebonics translators needed Washington Times The contract linguist will also be trained in what type of intercepted calls the government is authorized to listen to and which types it is not. ... and more »
Colorado Mountain College training interpreters Vail Daily News The new advanced class in Consecutive Interpretation starts the evening of Sept. 2 in Edwards. Introduction to Translation and Interpretation starts Sept. ...