Catia Cassiano is a member of AUSIT

Our Member Cátia Cassiano was recently admitted as a Member of AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators). This comes as a new milestone in Cátia's career. 

AUSIT as a long history of promoting standards and quality in the Translation and Interpreting Industry. Its Code of Conduct that is one of the requirements for being a NAATI Certified professional since it sets the standards for ethical conduct for interpreters and translators in Australia and New Zealand. Updated Words has proudly adopted this Code of Conduct since its beginning. 

AUSIT is also committed in promoting good relationships between its practitioners and in their professional development by holding regular webinars, courses and other events that help translators and interpreters to excel in their profession. Cátia's goal is to be able to work directly with AUSIT and other associations in order to keep the great standards in this industry. Apart from AUSIT, Cátia is a NAATI Certified Translator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

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Change on Section 13 of Terms & Conditions

We made a few changes to Section 13 of our Terms & Conditions. This section regards to Certified Translation services provided by our member Cátia Cassiano. Cátia was recently informed that a translator does not need to see the original document to be able to certify its translation. However the translation must have a copy of the original printed in the reserve of the page with the translator stamp and signature.

This has minimal effect on the service provided, but it allows the translator to accept jobs interstate or overseas. 

To read the full document please visit our Terms & Conditions.

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Cátia Cassiano a NAATI Certified Translator

Last year NAATI started a process of Certification for its practitioners. NAATI aims increase its high standards in the industry. Only those who meet NAATI's strict requirements would be able to transition into the new Certification Program. There's still some practitioners who hold an accreditation but they won't be listed at NAATI's directory and they won't be able to renew their accreditation. The idea is to phase out accredited translators and have only certified translators in the Association. 

Our Member Cátia Cassiano, who has been a Professional Translator accredited by NAATI since May 2013 has now successfully transitioned into certification and is now a Certified Translator . Cátia has also updated her professional blog In the eyes of a translator, the blog has been hosted at blogspot for some time and Cátia has now moved it into Wordpress.

If you have any queries please fill free to drop her a line.

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Welcome to 2018

Welcome to 2018. After a short break our team is ready to start the new year. Our team wishes you a very happy and successful new year.

There are a few changes to our Online Activities in 2018. From 2018 our Grammar Months will be held at the last month of each quarter. This enables us to spread this activities evenly throughout the year. We will continue with our regular online activities as usual and we invite you all to participate.

We have updated our Price list for 2018. You can view our full updated price list in our website.

We are ready to start the year and we count on your participation. If you have any questions you would like to ask, please fell free to post them on our social media pages or send us a private email.

Happy New Year.

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Updated Words closed for the festive season

Updated Words will be closed during the festive season. Our Team will be on holidays and we won't be available from the 15th December 2017 to the 15th January 2018. We will reopen on Monday, 15th January 2018. During this period we will have limited access to the Internet, but we won't be available to work.

We wish all our clients and colleagues a happy festive season. We also wish you a very happy and successful 2018.

Regards,

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A new Updated Words Glossary is now available

Updated Words has launched another interesting Glossary. It is our Anatomy Glossary.

The Glossary is still incomplete, but we decided to publish so it can be useful to the general public. We want our glossaries to be a useful tool both for colleagues and the general public.

This Glossary will be updated regularly once more terms become available. Feel free to consult it on Anatomy Glossary .

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New Financial Year brings a few changes to Updated Words

The new Financial Year has just started bringing a few exciting changes to Updated Words. We did a small restructure and decided to do a few changes in our activities online and release 2 brand new Glossaries.

Over the years we've been promoting activities in our Facebook and Forum pages, bringing terms and asking readers to find their translation. We won't be changing that model but we will be doing it in a slightly different way. From this week we will start introducing the word on Tuesdays as usual, but we will start doing it in a multiple-choice exercise, where you will have to choose from 3 possible options.

We will also be introducing the Grammar Months. From now on, we will have 4 months in a year dedicated to Grammar issues both in English and Portuguese. These months will be spread out through the year and each one of them will have 2 weeks dedicated to English Grammar and the other 2 dedicated to Portuguese Grammar. The activities will be similar to the other activities. A multiple-choice exercise will be released on Tuesdays to be completed with the correct answers on Thursdays.

We have also updated our existing Glossaries and released 2 brand new Glossaries. These Glossaries are not complete, but they are meant to be updated  as more terms become available. Every weekly term released in our online activities will be released in a Glossary and published in our website once it reaches more than 20 terms. Our new glossaries are the Aviation and Tourism Glossary  and the Legal Vocabulary Glossary. More glossaries will be released throughout the year and the existing ones will be updated every three months. 

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