{"id":483,"date":"2018-12-19T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pensandopanama.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2018-12-19T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:25:23","slug":"thoughts-about-interpreting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pensandopanama.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/19\/thoughts-about-interpreting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Interpreting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I\ncouldn\u2019t do what you do!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first thing I hear when people finally comprehend\nwhat exactly it is, I do. Depending on the platform I\u2019m working with, I can\neither be in front of my computer sitting down or walking around on the phone. Most\nof the time people will just hear that I\u2019m speaking away hidden away in my home\noffice, in two languages like some sort of evil entity took over me or simply\ntrying to make a podcast and being funny about it. Or when on the phone,\ndepending on the type of interpreting session I am doing, I get the liberty of\nwalking around my home within reason. So, to an outsider\u2019s perspective I spend\nthe day chatting away on my pc or walking around my house on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a rare occasion, someone takes to the time to listen and\nunderstand what it is an interpreter does or listen in on a conversation and\nthe best of their curiosity gets to them and ask me what it is I am doing. After\nsome explaining and some examples the person starts to grasp the extent of the\ncomplexities of being a professional language interpreter. Scream out \u201cOh!\u201d, I\ncould never do what you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I entertain the idea for a moment because it brings me back\nto the first days when I was trained as a basic customer service interpreter\nand how scary it was to sit down in my first cubicle to take my first call\nalone while being shadowed by my quality assurance supervisor. Only one thing\nwas said before I took my first call, \u201cYou passed our training, and it isn\u2019t\neasy to get to this stage, just follow what we taught you and you\u2019ll be fine.\u201d For\nthe next three months between basic interpreting and training, I was tested and\npassed to be able to handle Nursing, then Insurance (Recorded Statements), afterward\nEmergency and so on until I reached the Medical interpreting. All in all, the\nentire process took about five years. About two years later could handle arbitration\nhearings to finally be qualified to handle legal interpreting. So after about seven\nyears of ongoing training to be able to achieve each level of qualifications\nrequired to reach my current interpreting level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I have reached another milestone which I had been avoiding\nbecause I enjoyed a certain level of anonymity as an interpreter because I only\nhandled audio calls, video interpreting. Why did it take me so long to accept\nvideo interpreting, on top of the enjoying anonymity, I have two kids to call\nmy own, and at the time video interpreting begun to take hold of the\ninterpreting industry, I was scared that my kids would decide to come in to my\noffice and just show up on live on camera. From a young age they learned to\nstay quiet when Dad was working, but curiosity to see what is on my computer\nscreen was at times too much of a temptation. Now they are a bit older and understand\nthat they must stay out of my home office when I\u2019m working, which is why I felt\nready and prepared to accept the challenge of video interpreting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no regrets now that I have begun video interpreting,\nI was sort of skeptical at first, what difference would it make, I still must\nbe able to hear the Non-English Speaker and the English speaker to be able to\nassist them. Until the day I helped an ER Doctor communicate with her patient\nwho suffered from cerebral palsy. I dare say, if it was not for the live video\nfeed and being able to watch both doctor and patient as they said their respective\nsegments, in an only audio scenario it would have been a much longer session,\nand this would only be in detriment to the well being of the patient. Seeing the\nparties involved allows the interpreter to get a better grasp of the context\nand possible feeling being transmitted by the speaker. Therefore, I can only\nconclude that video interpreting has only helped me improve as an interpreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, after over a decade as an English-Spanish\nInterpreter, that has gone through certain ups and downs as the industry has\nevolved. I have no regrets and would advice anyone who would like a different career\npath or try a part time job while going to school as one of the best jobs there\nis. You will get paid to help people and you will act as a cultural barrier, the\nbest part you get to learn about all sort of topics, the training and learning\nis on going and the skills sets developed as an interpreter can apply to many\nother industries, specially the ones that demand working with people and under\npressure. Don\u2019t be scared, there will be people there to help you and train you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t do what you do! This is the first thing I hear when people finally comprehend what exactly it is, I do. Depending on the platform I\u2019m working with, I can either be in front of my computer sitting down or walking around on the phone. 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