Challenges defined our industry in 2023 and 2024, as the development of new technology tools fuelled a growing sense of uncertainty. Both machine translation (MT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are here to stay, according to the 2023 and 2024 Nimdzi 100 rankings, which showed that MT and postediting accounted for 74.21% of the market in
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The Association of Interpreters and Translators (AIT) is a UK-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to achieving protection of title for interpreters and translators, raising professional standards, and providing essential training, continuing professional development (CPD), networking opportunities, and supervision. Not only are we proud members of FIT, but we have been elected to serve on the board
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The Asociación Panameña de Traductores e Intérpretes (APTI) held its first annual general meeting on 15 February where members participated in a workshop on professional rates. The event facilitated discussions on fair pricing and market standards by comparing rates from translator and interpreter associations from around the world. The workshop emphasised the importance of setting competitive
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In September, FIT LatAm celebrated International Translation Month with a lineup of distinguished speakers: specialised translator Pablo Mugüerza, joining from Europe, delivered an insightful presentation on ‘The best medical translation’, full of language and terminology tips. Silvia Bacco, president of CTPSF, addressed ‘Quality in translation and interpreting’ and shared her guidance on professional standards. The third
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The Société française des traducteurs (SFT), France’s union for professional translators and interpreters, will hold its second Rencontres de la traduction et de l’interprétation (RTI) in Dijon from 29 to 31 March 2025. The goal of this French-language event is to bring together both established and aspiring translators and interpreters, as well as people retraining in
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On 6 July, we celebrated the conclusion of the First District School of Literary Translation, a programme developed by ACTTI with the support of the Instituto Distrital de las Artes (IDARTES, Bogotá). The school aimed to bring translators together for training on the theoretical, methodological, and practical principles for translating literary texts, allowing them to take
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How the work of an internal committee can reach all FIT member associations Just as tiny, isolated neurons extend their axons to reach out to other isolated neurons and, together, create something wonderful called synapses, the central mission of the International Relations Committee of the Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
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At the Institute of Translation and Interpretating of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), we are organising a series of monthly webinars in English on the most innovative developments in the language industry. The idea came from the industry itself. In October 2023, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) organised a meeting with
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The city of Alcalá de Henares, Cervantes’ birthplace, was the perfect backdrop for hosting Cantera 2023. Cantera is an initiative launched in 2018 by alitral (the Ibero–American Alliance for the Promotion of Literary Translation) that resumed this year after a pandemic-imposed hiatus.
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