Case Studies, Stories, and Advice for Interpreters
On this blog we'll give examples and encouragement from our 14 years of experience working in interpreting, translating, and cultural awareness.
Personal growth is important. In our monthly interpreter meetings, Bridging the Gap Interpreting and our interpreters have been exploring vital principles for encouraging us grow and learn. For this month’s newsletter, we wanted to review – in brief – the topics we’ve covered so far, for the benefit of our readers. In the first week of […]
Teachability is the pathway of learning: it means possessing the intention, attitude, and behaviors to keep learning throughout life. These traits don’t always come easily. Like any kind of personal improvement, we need to cultivate our capacity to learn and grow.
Hello everyone! Bridging the Gap Interpreting is excited to introduce our monthly newsletter, The Archway, to provide you with information, inspiration, and to share stories from around the interpreting and translation world. Have a look at this month’s items! Learning Together with Nabil: Improvement When improvement is needed, most people choose “up.” That is to […]
by Oriah It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your […]
Several years ago a local county court requested an Arabic court interpreter from our company for a hearing that involved several parties, one of which was in custody. When the hearing date finally arrived and all the parties were present, the hearing got underway. The interpreter quickly noticed that the LEPs (Limited English Persons) whom he […]