Mar 13, 2005

Univision: There's more to Spanish newscasts than change of language

"There is a lot more to making a Spanish-speaking newscast than merely translating the news for non-English speakers." - MyWestTexas.com

Emphasis on English

"Terri Rychlak grew up in Baltimore's Fells Point section and has seen her neighborhood of Polish immigrants become home to a growing Hispanic community. Miss Rychlak says she enjoys the new cultural diversity of the area, where shops and restaurants increasingly cater to Ecuadorean and Salvadoran immigrants. But she sometimes is frustrated by her new neighbors' inability or unwillingness to learn English — which her grandparents had to master when they emigrated from Poland." - The Washington Times

Mar 9, 2005

At a tense World Social Forum, an interpreter finds herself lost in translation

"We are Latin Americanist Hindi interpreters from the subcontinent, bespectacled Brazilian graduate students who served in the Israeli army, rangy Galician professionals fresh from the European Union's halls." - The Village Voice

HP debuts Spanish-language training

"HP has premiered an industry-first Spanish-language online training series dedicated to enhancing the performance of Hispanic businesses through technology." - eChannelLine USA

Mar 1, 2005

Court interpreters are in high demand

"By 11:15 on a Thursday morning, Kathleen Penney has already worked 13 hearings in Juvenile Court in Mesa. Penney is an interpreter for Maricopa County Superior Court, a one-woman information highway between the judge and jury on one side of the courtroom, and defendants and witnesses who don't speak English on the other. -
The Arizona Republic