Congratulations Vigdis!
“Found in translation”
by Victoria Hofmo
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Human communication is something we spend almost all of our waking hours doing, or at least trying to do. Even between those who speak the same language, our communication skills often fail. How many times have you had an argument with someone, when you later realize you were on the same page? Or perhaps you didn’t understand a subtle variation in meaning between two words that led you to feel unjustifiably miffed.
Now, what happens when you choose to take communicating to an entirely different level—when you decide to make your living translating from one language to another? And what happens when you decide to provide that service in 100 languages? Talk about the Tower of Babel!
Who would dare to try mastering verbal intelligibility in a variety of fields, such as technical, creative, and financial? Vigdis Eriksen of Eriksen Translations Inc. dares! Thirty years ago she took on the brave task of making words into links, rather than barriers. Read on…..