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The Interpreter’s Inner Archive
Knowledge — What You Can’t Quite Teach Some of the most essential skills interpreters rely on can’t be taught in a classroom. This post explores tacit knowledge, instinct, pattern recognition, and the slow learning that comes from error, reflection, and experience—both professional and personal. A deep dive into the quiet expertise that lives beneath the… Read more
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Not Just Language
The post explores how Deaf cultural norms influence decision-making in interpreting. It highlights the challenges interpreters face in balancing direct communication typical in Deaf culture with the indirectness often found in hearing contexts. Emphasizing cultural mediation over mere translation, it advocates for cultural fluency and responsiveness in interpreting practice. Read more
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Meaning Under Pressure
Interpreting is a complex, live process that distinguishes itself from translation by involving real-time comprehension, decision-making, and expression. It requires deft management of nuances, ethics, and language rules, often adapting creatively to ensure clarity and connection. Ultimately, interpreting is about accessibility and understanding, not just words. Read more
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When Neutrality Isn’t Enough: A Legal Interpreter’s Quiet Quandary
What happens when interpretation itself becomes part of the legal evidence? A courtroom reflection on ethics, language access, and stepping away when neutrality reaches its limit. Read more
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Staying Sharp, Not Just Registered
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about CPD — not the hours we log, but the learning that actually stays with us. Anthony Mitchell CPD that feeds the work, not just the paperwork. Because development should change how we interpret – not just prove we attended something. I once went to a CPD session about… Read more
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Between Languages: What Interpreting Really Involves
Ethics Ethics is where everything becomes personal. In the first reflection, I unsettled the myth of one-to-one translation. In the second, I explored the cultural and tacit knowledge that replaces that illusion. This third reflection turns to what sits underneath both: ethics. Because once you accept that interpreting is not mechanical transfer but culturally situated… Read more
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