Slovo, Podcast of the ATA Slavic Languages Division

About Slovo, Podcast of the ATA Slavic Languages Division

Welcome to Slovo, a Podcast of the ATA Slavic Languages Division! The Slavic Languages Division (SLD) of the American Translators Association (ATA) brings together professional translators and interpreters working with English and one or more of the Slavic languages spoken in Eastern Europe and the non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet bloc. On this channel, we'll be discussing topics of interest for translators and interpreters from Slavic languages into English and vice versa. We're available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Stitcher!

Publisher

Slavic Languages Division of the American Translators Association

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2018

Latest episode

12 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Aug 2025

   Episode 36 - Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya and John Riedl

   Host Halla Goins chats with Russian-to-English ATA exam graders Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya and John Riedl about the session they presented last year at ATA65 in Portland, entitled “I can’t place the accent: Identifying the characteristic traits of machine translation”. You can read a review of John and Eugenia's session here: https://www.ata-divisions.org/SLD/ata65-review-i-cant-place-the-accent/, and you can download their session slides here: https://www.ata-divisions.org/SLD/resources/slavic-languages-presentations-archive/.

2. 

   5 Feb 2025

   Episode 35 - Philip Boehm

   Host Halla Goins chats with playwright, director, and literary translator Philip Boehm about how his various literary identities shape each other, capturing the original voice of a work in translation, and some of his most memorable Polish-to-English translation projects.

3. 

   7 Aug 2024

   Episode 34 - Daniel Sebesta & Bridget Hylak

   Host Halla Goins chats with Daniel Sebesta and Bridget Hylak about probably the hottest and most contentious topic in T&I right now – AI. Whether you think you love it or hate it, you can’t escape it, so let’s talk about it! Are you a translator or interpreter who works with a Slavic language and uses AI-powered tools in your professional practice? Let us know at hallagoins@gmail.com! You could appear on a future episode of Slovo. Check out the ATA-LTD website here: https://www.ata-divisions.org/LTD/

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 17 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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