SIJIN XIAN, CT, MACI  
ATA-Certified English<>Chinese Translator
​Prize-Winning Mandarin Interpreter

I'm delighted to share that I have been approved as a Pre-Candidate of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC). To achieve this status, I needed to collect signatures from three AIIC members to attest that I work as a professional conference interpreter. Since my graduation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey last May, I have had the privilege of interpreting at the Chinese Embassy, U.S. Capitol, Library of Congress, and

While in Boston for the 66th Annual Conference of the American Translators Association last week, I had the honor of being interviewed by my colleague, mentor, and friend Rony Gao on the Chinese Language Division Podcast. We traced my professional journey of starting out as a translator, branching out into subtitling, and going back to school at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in 2024 to start a new chapter of my career as a conference interprete

Last April, before I started my Advanced Entry MA program in Conference Interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International...

First, it was machine translation, then it was AI. It seems that every new technology that bursts onto the scene prompts premature...