News

06 Dec 2021

What is the research about? This research project explores what happens when a translation is revised by someone other than the translator. The first phase involves surveying Japanese<>English translators. The second phase involves selecting a small group of the translators surveyed to revise one or two short translated texts. Who is conducting the research? The...

03 Dec 2021

NAATI launched its Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) earlier this year and has undertaken a large analysis of the data collected through a candidate survey, an Examiner survey, Examiner workshops run since 2018, consultations with industry experts and the launch of a reliability study through a third party. Over the last six months, initial work has...

01 Dec 2021

In response to community requests, NAATI would like to announce that Marathi has been added in the Credentialed Community Language (CCL) testing. Candidates can submit CCL applications from 1 December 2021. Limited test spots have been opened for testing in February 2022.

29 Nov 2021

NAATI surveyed all certification test candidates from late 2018 to January 2021 on their testing experience. Nearly half of our candidates responded, with most survey respondents being new to the translating and interpreting profession. Here are some results from the analysed data. NAATI has launched a Continuous Improvement Program to refine the Certification System, consulting...

29 Nov 2021

Practitioner Spotlight

It is my great pleasure to have the opportunity to talk about my interpreting and translating career. I was born into a bilingual family in Yugoslavia – Hungarian and Serbian/Croatian. My family lived on the territory of Serbia and had relatives both in Serbia and in Hungary. As it happens in bilingual families, the two (or...

01 Nov 2021

Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC) is a specialist state-wide service that works to ensure people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds receive culturally responsive mental health care and support. QTMHC developed the Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention Training for Human Service Workers to upskill human service workers on how to identify and support people from culturally...