Practitioner Spotlight: Slobodanka Trajkovski
Always follow your heart! I was born and raised in Macedonia, a small but very beautiful country in Europe. My parents were lawyers, but growing up I was never really interested in becoming a lawyer myself. In fact, ever since I was a young girl, I was infatuated with foreign languages and cultures, and all…
Practitioner Spotlight: Leonora Adidi
Indigenous Language Interpreting in Queensland Interpreting was actually a bit of an unexpected career path twist for me! I graduated from linguistics at Batchelor College in the Northern Territory(NT), looking at a career in academia, but was offered the lecturer position for the Diploma of Interpreting, working with Aboriginal language interpreters from NT, South Australia…
Practitioner Spotlight: Valentine Aghajani
My journey in the interpreting profession I migrated to Australia as an infant with my family in mid-1970. My journey and passion for interpreting in Assyrian language commenced when I was still in high school. I was the very first Assyrian interpreter in Victoria who started interpreting with Department of Immigration and various other government…
Practitioner Spotlight: Elizabeth Comor
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…
