Tag: interpreting
Episode 10: Towards Perfect Effort
Lefteris Kafatos first started studying Japanese at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa. He later went on the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program and was posted in Okinawa. That experience fostered in him a strong interest in language interpretation, and in the nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Lefteris went on to study at the Inter-University Center for…
Episode 4: Culture as a Foothold
Robert Holloway (who also goes by “Meramsu”) is the son of a Korean adoptee, a descendant of Black Wall Street business owners who survived the Tulsa Race Riots, and a Korean simultaneous interpreter. He didn’t grow up speaking Korean. He learned because of his interest in his family’s history. Robert’s mother was adopted from South…