Past Events

Have you ever wondered if it’s worth it to diversify your client base to include foreign clients? Not quite sure how to go about finding foreign clients or promoting your services outside Japan? Worried about foreign payment practices, etc.? We at TRAC have the solution: ask Akiko! For TRAC’s summer session, this time we’ll have Akiko Endo, linguistic freelancer extraordinaire, up to Sendai to...

Have you ever wondered if it’s worth it to diversify your client base to include foreign clients? Not quite sure how to go about finding foreign clients or promoting your services outside Japan? Worried about foreign payment practices, etc.? We at TRAC have the solution: ask Akiko! For TRAC’s summer session, this time we’ll have Akiko Endo, linguistic freelancer extraordinaire, up to Sendai to...

Photos Abstract : This seminar will focus only on some practical trainings for simultaneous interpreting based on the lectures provided by the lecturer in the past seminars. This workshop includes the way how to handle paper preparation for simultaneous interpreting. It also tries to give the participants some clues to successful simultaneous interpreting without paper as well....

Photos Abstract : This seminar will focus only on some practical trainings for simultaneous interpreting based on the lectures provided by the lecturer in the past seminars. This workshop includes the way how to handle paper preparation for simultaneous interpreting. It also tries to give the participants some clues to successful simultaneous interpreting without paper as well....

Title: How to Use Japanese Punctuation Marks: Understanding the "Totens of Thoughts" from Honda Dokuhon Speaker: Ryo Morisawa Abstract: I’m going to ask you to work on some problems right away. If you were going to place totens in the following sentences, where would you put them? 1)句読点の打ち方をとくに意識したことはいままでなかった。しかし先週の土曜日私は句読点の打ち方についての話を聞いた。 2)実は私は文法はあまり好きではない。 In Japanese, there are no clear...

Title: How to Use Japanese Punctuation Marks: Understanding the "Totens of Thoughts" from Honda Dokuhon Speaker: Ryo Morisawa Abstract: I’m going to ask you to work on some problems right away. If you were going to place totens in the following sentences, where would you put them? 1)句読点の打ち方をとくに意識したことはいままでなかった。しかし先週の土曜日私は句読点の打ち方についての話を聞いた。 2)実は私は文法はあまり好きではない。 In Japanese, there are no clear...

Most interpreters use a stand or headset microphone for interpreting, but never get any training on how to use one. Am I speaking too softly or too loud? How close should the mic be to my face? Are my consonants grating to my listener? In this workshop, we will learn basic voice and microphone techniques from an expert in radio broadcast. Though not bilingual, our instructor is a qualified...

Most interpreters use a stand or headset microphone for interpreting, but never get any training on how to use one. Am I speaking too softly or too loud? How close should the mic be to my face? Are my consonants grating to my listener? In this workshop, we will learn basic voice and microphone techniques from an expert in radio broadcast. Though not bilingual, our instructor is a qualified...

Date: April 23, 2017 (Sunday) Time: 2:30–5:00 p.m. (doors open, networking at 2:00) Place: TKP Kyoto Shijo Karasuma Conference Center, Conference Room 2A Fee: ¥1000 SWET or JAT members; ¥2,000 non-members Reservation and Inquiries (日本語 ok): kat(at)jat.org Access: http://www.kashikaigishitsu.net/facilitys/cc-kyoto-shijokarasuma/access/ 京都府京都市下京区仏光寺通室町東入釘隠町247番コーエーレオ To be followed by dinner and...

Date: April 23, 2017 (Sunday) Time: 2:30–5:00 p.m. (doors open, networking at 2:00) Place: TKP Kyoto Shijo Karasuma Conference Center, Conference Room 2A Fee: ¥1000 SWET or JAT members; ¥2,000 non-members Reservation and Inquiries (日本語 ok): kat(at)jat.org Access: http://www.kashikaigishitsu.net/facilitys/cc-kyoto-shijokarasuma/access/ 京都府京都市下京区仏光寺通室町東入釘隠町247番コーエーレオ To be followed by dinner and...