There are never enough ways to say "I love you." Here are a few more:
 

Albanian: Të dua

Greek: Σ΄αγαπώ

Spanish: Te amo

Turkish: Seni seviyorum

Vietnamese: Em yêu anh
 

Happy Valentine's Day from LSC!

Fouzia Musse, Somali translator and interpreter, has been part of LSC since 2001. Over the years, Fouzia
has provided ongoing medical and legal translation and interpreting services, both from English into
Somali and Somali into English. She recently completed a large audio recording of a Somali medical
handbook for use by Somali women here in the United States.

Ms. Musse currently works in Somalia as a Development Consultant. “In this capacity, I provide
technical assistance for government institutions, international, and local organizations that are engaged
in developmental initiatives for community empowerment. “ She is responsible for community outreach
and trainings on political participation and decision-making of women in local governments. The literacy
rate of women in Somalia is low, and many of them don’t understand English, the official administrative
language of the government. As an experienced interpreter, she is often called upon to provide
simultaneous interpretation services during trainings and outreach activities. In addition, she assists
expatriate colleagues by interpreting to help facilitate their communication with target beneficiaries.
Since Fouzia’s return to her homeland one year ago, she is engaged in interpreting and translations on
a daily basis. She feels that the medical and legal translation and interpreting experience she gained by
working with LSC over the years has been instrumental for the important work she is doing now.

“My main focus is to facilitate communication between clients and service providers who don’t
have a common language. My interpreting skills help to remove the isolation clients often face, in
particular women, when they are seeking essential assistance, such as health care services. Through my
interpreting efforts, clients can better understand the existing services and reduce their fear of asking
for more details from their service providers.” She often functions as a cultural broker between the
clients and service providers.

Fouzia has truly made change in her community through language!

Best wishes for a wonderful and successful 2012 from all of us at LSC.

 LSC would like to share some recent language services industry news and resources. Many of you may have already read the ATA's, Translations: Getting it Right. We are very pleased to see that the ATA has put out two new interesting publications on translation and interpreting, Interpreting: Getting it Right and Translation: Buying a non-commodity. We have found them most useful and hope you will too.

In addition, the Virginia Institute of Interpreting has launched a new online professional interpreting course called IPDP 2.0. Information about the course can be found here.