Search results: (12 matches) Forum | Topic | Title | Text | Poster | Time | Linguistic diversity | What "dialects" do you speak? | All mixed up | I have spent most of my life in Northern California, where there is no remarkable accent except for the habit of speaking quickly. However, I spent three years (age 12-15) in Georgia (the< | Shannon Jimenez | Jul 17, 2008 | Money matters | Anyone done tutoring before? | Yes | I enjoy teaching and live in a university town, so I do quite a bit of tutoring on the side. The going rate in my town is $30-$50/hr., which isn't too bad, and students come to me (I tutor | Shannon Jimenez | Jul 17, 2008 | Interpreting | Translators and interpreters: How different are we? | Mostly a translator | Your personality type is INFJ.
Introverted (I) 71% Extraverted (E) 29%
Intuitive (N) 64% Sensing (S) 36%
Feeling (F) 55% Thinking (T) 45%
Judging (J) 59% Perceiving (P) 41%
~S | Shannon Jimenez | Jul 8, 2008 | Multilingual families | Wedding advice | All good advice... | I can give you advice from my two weddings (both to the same man! A small civil ceremony in Guatemala and a large church wedding in the US) that involved Guatemalan and American guests and | Shannon Jimenez | Jan 30, 2008 | Being independent | Corresponding writing in your "source" language and sounding professional | I ask my husband | I, too, know how you feel. I find writing in formal Spanish difficult-- like most Americans, I tend to jump right to the point, which can come accross as rude in Spanish. I ask my husband | Shannon Jimenez | Dec 14, 2007 | Safe computing | An Effective Way to Handle Multiple Passwords | I second Roboform | I have been using Roboform for about a year now and it is a great program. Not only does it remember all your login names and passwords, but it can fill online forms for you as well (and d | Shannon Jimenez | Nov 14, 2007 | Trados support | Trados and Word 2007 | SDL Trados 2007 | Just a quick FYI: SDL Trados 2007 has its own "tab" in Word 2007. However, in my case, Trados causes Word to crash more frequently (though with Autosave I haven't lost any data).
~Shann | Shannon Jimenez | Sep 19, 2007 | Multilingual families | What language do you speak to your partner? | Mostly Spanish, some English | My husband is Guatemalan and we met while I was living in Guatemala. As he didn't speak a word of English at the time, we spoke entirely in Spanish for the first couple years of our relati | Shannon Jimenez | Sep 12, 2007 | Business issues | Do you generate any business through your website? | Don't forget to advertise | I have a website I created myself on Microsoft Publisher, which did not work very well because it does not properly display international characters in Firefox... so I spent some time and | Shannon Jimenez | Sep 11, 2007 | Professional development | NYU Translation Program - How difficult is the exam? | Spanish > English | I'm enrolled in the Spanish to English program now. I took the intro course this summer (required for all the following courses) and will be taking two more starting in October.
The tes | Shannon Jimenez | Aug 27, 2007 | Translator resources | American Indian Languages | I agree | [quote]Alan R King wrote:
Although these languages are very widely spoken by the population, I encountered negative attitudes among local village people (in Momostenango, for exampl | Shannon Jimenez | Aug 5, 2007 | Translator resources | American Indian Languages | K'iche' | Hi there,
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