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Happy 2014! As we begin a new year, your MITA blogger has made a new resolution: at least one new post a month!  Last year was a difficult one for me on a personal level, and I appreciate your patience. To start out the year, I thought I’d share a couple of techie tidbits that […]

TCK. Third Culture Kid. It’s the technical name for children raised across cultures. With that early multilingual and multicultural exposure, a good number of TCKs end up in jobs that require an ability to easily move between languages and cultures – like translation and interpretation. So I invite you to meet Susan Rials, MITA’s Communications […]

“March comes in like a lion”, folk wisdom tells us, and given the winds that have raced across North Texas of late, the analogy seems accurate.  It also got me thinking about the layered meanings of the word “wind”. In many languages, wind means far more than the movement of air.  It may symbolize change, […]

Happy 2013!      Here’s wishing everyone a happy and prosperous journey throughout the year, both personally and professionally!      Several people have sent links to articles, training opportunities or tools that might be of interest. If you come across any as well, please send them in for a future Grab Bag! Cheers, The […]

Every so often, someone comes across a fun or interesting blog that relates to our industry.  For your reading pleasure, the Reader would like to share some of these with you: http://localization.it/tale-of-a-professional-translator-and-the-developer/ http://www.aipti.org/eng/articles/art20-weird-opinions-on-translators-and-how-to-educate-the-public.html http://rpstranslations.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/when-law-enforcement-agencies-do-everything-they-can-to-avoid-hiring-a-real-interpreter/?goback=%2Egde_138763_member_148071302 http://patenttranslator.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-real-barrier-to-entry-into-the-translation-profession-is-extremely-high/ Enjoy! (The Reader Editor is chasing a few deadlines.  As soon as they are met and conquered, another introductory post […]

Somewhere in the hustle and bustle of this summer, the MITA Reader moved from one blog host to another.  This was done as part of the upgrades our Steering Committee has made to the back end of our web presence. Some front end changes you may have noticed are that MITA has entered the Twitterverse (@dfwmita) […]