News

25 Nov 2020

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to talk with Dr Eser about his time in Australia and the publication of his work: Understanding Community Interpreting Services: Diversity and Access in Australia and Beyond.  The book looks at community interpreting as a market offering in an industry that meets the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse members of the Australian...

18 Nov 2020

Dr Yavar Dehghani Languages with Non-Roman script including Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Dari, Tamil, and Thai have more challenges than others. The translation of documents from English, a language with Roman script, into these languages can have challenges for the formatting of phrases, sentences, and tables, etc. Some of these languages, like...

08 Nov 2020

The subject of this week’s post is NAIDOC Week and its 2020 theme of ‘Always was, Always will be.’ It is an opportunity for us to reflect on the importance of all cultures, the value of Indigenous peoples, and the part we play in Reconciliation. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance...

04 Nov 2020

Let’s be honest, YouTube is a great place for…..well…..wasting a lot of time. Yes, there are funny memes, fashion tips from the Kardashians and plenty of sporting videos.  And if you delve a little deeper, this platform is brimming with valuable and informative content.  Yes, the ‘Tube has lots of learning opportunities and plenty of educational channels, such as our own NAATI channel, which...

28 Oct 2020

By Ekaterina Korolkevich-Rubbo, A NAATI Certified Provisional Interpreter The idea for translation of Russian Nursery Rhymes into English came to me when my daughter Ellen was born. All my life I’d lived in Russia always loving folklore, beautiful fairy tales, wise fables and tender songs.  I started questioning the whole idea of culture, identity and...