Translation Skills Training™

Translation Skills Training™ (TST) is the brainchild of Ms. Rojas’s over forty years of experience engaged in multiple facets of the field of analytic linguistics. Over the years, Ms. Rojas has held many teaching positions (Spanish and English – in California, Spain and Venezuela), including language teaching for special purposes. In these many roles, Ms. Rojas developed curricula, course and testing for a variety of language programs. Since 1972, has been sole owner of her company, Professional Translators & Transcribers, Inc.,(dba Protrans), providing highly specialized linguistic talent to government and corporate clients. This placed Ms. Rojas in a unique position, first as a translator/interpreter herself, for criminal investigations, and then as an employer, to identify the types of knowledge and skills that Analytic Linguists need – in addition to “simply” being bilingual, biliterate and bicultural. Thus, in these roles, in theoretical and practical settings, Ms. Rojas acquired a wealth of first-hand knowledge. She knows what intellectual, linguistic and emotional demands are made on Analytic Linguists who work in wire rooms. Observing the difficulties that even most talented, dedicated bilingual people have when they begin working in a wire room, she was determined to educate aspiring Analytic Linguists and, in so doing, professionalize the field. Indeed, until the creation of TST, there was no specific training available anywhere – except on the job. Her experience and determination, coupled with her focused vision of what training they need in order to be successful from their first day on the job, enabled her to undertake the herculean efforts needed to create TST’srigorous curriculum. In 2009, Ms. Rojas published Investigative Surveillance:Procedures for Transcription and Translation of Foreign Language Communication Intercepts, a hefty primer for anyone interested in becoming an Analytic Linguist. This book deals with essential knowledge about the field and the nature of the work environment and, naturally, is included among the reading materials for the TST curriculum. Ms. Rojas knew that reading about being an Analytic Linguist could not enable anyone to become one. Thus, the TST curriculum she envisioned and gathered a team of experts to develop and deliver, identifies the key skills that Analytic Linguists must have and addresses the full formation and development of these skills. Ms. Rojas holds numerous government certifications, accreditations and clearances, federal and state. She serves on advisory boards for translator and interpreter education at two universities in southern California. Ms. Rojas’s work over the years has earned her many accolades and awards, among them, in 2006, she was very fittingly named as one of the country’s “Remarkable Women” by the National Association of Women Business Owners. In 1997, her company, Protrans, was featured in Hispanic Business as one of the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Hispanic Businesses in the United States.” Ms. Rojas’s energy and enthusiasm for her life’s work is contagious. Her team of experts around the world and her staff in Newport Beach, CA,have been inspired to promote her vision, and have labored to give it shape and life in TST’s fully online training for the formation of, or for the continuing education of Analytic Linguists. This course of study was accredited in 2014 by the International Association of Continuing Education & Training (IACET).