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Making the most of your summer

With the festive season approaching, now is the time to think about how to make the best use of your summer and plan for your post-holiday return to work. Summer can mean a slowdown in business as clients take their holidays and offices are closed, so it’s a good time to catch up on tasks on your to do list and make sure you are ready for 2024. Here are some suggestions for a relaxing and productive summer.

Q&A: fair pay petition – let’s talk progress!

On the evening of 6 September 2023, Carolina Cannard, with the support of NZSTI, hosted a virtual Q&A session addressing the pressing issue of fair pay for interpreters in Aotearoa New Zealand. The session focused on Carolina's fair pay petition and collection of interpreter testimonies, with valuable insights provided by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) representatives Ciska den Haring and Alison McDonald.

Lawyer’s opinion for reporting suspected or actual criminal activities

A post on our forum brought up the question of our obligation as translators and interpreters to report criminal activities that we encounter in the course of our work. This was such an important question that NZSTI sought a legal opinion on the matter, which you can read in full here.

Brushing up your grammar

Hannah Burdekin shares a tip on how to brush up on your grammar

1986 to the 2000s: How it all began – a brief history of NZSTI

A brief history of NZSTI by Patrick King, former President, founding member, and Fellow of NZSTI

Presentation at Auckland City Hospital

NZSTI Auckland branch organised a presentation to the renal and palliative care teams at Auckland City Hospital on 28 February 2023 on issues relating to interpreting in medical consultations.

Towards Demystifying Machine Translation for the Freelancer

An international research firm forecasts that the global machine translation market has the potential to grow by one billion US dollars during the period 2020–2024. Yet recent studies also indicate that despite the growing adoption of machine translation in workflow processes in industrial settings, many professional translators, freelancers in particular, still harbour negative feelings about machine translation and tend to resist and/or reject the technology.

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