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Santo Domingo and its 7,500 hotel rooms and Convention Centers

Why choose the Dominican Republic as venue for your conferences, meetings and events?

The Dominican Republic has become the most diverse and complete destination for meetings, corporate incentives, conferences, exhibitions and international events of all Central America and the Caribbean. “We need to integrate and train ourselves more, to be more competitive in attracting world-class international events”, determined Elizabeth Tovar, president of Turenlaces del Caribe and president of […]

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Interpretation for ITU World Forum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The Decline of the Simultaneous Interpretation Profession in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic meetings Industry is one of the largest and most successful in the region.  With international convention centers in Santo Domingo, Punta Cana, Cap Cana, Santiago, Bavaro, Samana and Puerto Plata.  If you are planning a meeting or conference, you have come to the right place, the Dominican Republic.  No other destination in

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Impact of COVID-19 in the interpretation profession

In the Simultaneous Conference Interpretation Profession, a clear preference has always existed in favor of On-Site work versus remote interpretation. Since the profession was first formalized in Nuremberg, evidence shows that interpreters loose cognitive capacity to perform other tasks while listening from a source language, interpreting into a target language, putting that interpretation into spoken words into another culture and language without losing context, while still listening to speakers over their own voice. 

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Difference between interpretation and translation

Globalization and elimination of communication barriers, partially thanks to the exponential growth of social digital media, allow and force us to elegantly communicate what we represent, and what we do, to different audiences worldwide.   To sell your idea and communicate what you offer will, sooner or later, make you seek quality translation or interpretation services.   And you must, of course, know what the difference is to determine what you require according to your business needs.   Since they are related, the terms interpretation and translation are often confused.  It is important that you know the difference so that you may request the right service from the correct service provider.

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Costly Interpretation Errors

Interpretation is an Art. An experienced professional interpreter studies not only subject matter, but also the speakers and their professional, political, and family background, plus the audience to which the message is intended. An interpreter must learn about geopolitical, technical, historical, social, and economic context of what is being expressed. A professional must be capable of elegant rendition in any subject, under any amount of pressure. Under these circumstances, we can all make mistakes, like any other human being. There are however errors, that are just too costly.

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