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Marita Marcano Baulesch, Dipl.-Übersetzerin, BDÜ, ATAGerman technical translations from English, Spanish, French by professional
German translator with M.A. in translation studies and many years of
experience as an in-house translator in the telecommunications & IT industries
Publications...
Interkontinentale Geschäftstätigkeit als Sprachmittler ... aus USA-Perspektive
by Marita Marcano
Presentation at the international BDÜ conference Interpreting the Future in Berlin, Germany, September 11-13, 2009
What's in a Word
by Jill R. Sommer and Marita Marcano
Article about counting tools for translators, published in the 8/2006 issue of the ATA Chronicle (professional journal of the American Translators Association).
Zusammenarbeit unter Kollegen im Cyberspace - Virtuelle Kollegentreffpunkte
by Marita Marcano
Article (in German) about newsgroups and mailing lists for translators and interpreters, published in the 3/04 issue of the MDÜ (professional journal of the German translators and interpreters association BDÜ) and the December 2003 issue of the Sprachrohr (professional journal of the BDÜ Rheinland-Pfalz division).
...and Tips
Parlez-vous français?
by Marita Marcano
Article about how to find the right translator or interpreter, published in the May 2001 issue of the Greater Kansas City Business, a publication of the greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.
Beware of the " Bilingual Expert"
by Maria Cornelio
Published in the 8/2003 issue of the ATA Chronicle.
Find out how you can avoid having your valuable documents translated by the wrong experts.
In this article our colleague Maria Cornelio talks about her negative experience with clinical studies translated by medical experts (such as doctors, scientists etc.) who are bilingual or fluent in a foreign language. The author is the director of the Hispanic Research and Recruitment Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, where she oversees recruitment and language support programs for Spanish-speaking participants in clinical studies. Although this article refers to the medical field, it applies to all fields of translation.
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