When companies brief us, we always ask how business is going. These days, the table is turned, and companies are increasingly asking us, “How’s business in general for the industry?” In some recent conversations with LSPs, we have probed for feedback about the unrelenting flow of bad economic news and how — or if — […]

In the past few weeks, interpreters have been in the headlines nearly every day, representing a few steps forward — and backward — for the overall profession. Here are some of the latest trends in the spoken language space:

Last week, an important conference took place for the health care field — Quality Health for Culturally Diverse Populations. Attendees from around the globe were present, and participants in an international roundtable shared their experiences related to multilingual and multicultural patient populations in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Qatar, Switzerland, and the United States.
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve posted several entries about mainstream language issues. Some of these started on the front page of American newspapers. Then they followed  the usual route of the 24-hour news cycle, disappearing ever deeper in the paper as election, economic, weather, and sports news dominate the headlines.