Hello, and welcome to my little corner on the web. I’m Álvaro Degives-Más, a Nevada Certified Court Interpreter, and I’m privileged and pleased to serve the wider Lake Tahoe area with my language services. I do this from my home base in Reno, Nevada, also known as the Biggest Little City in the World. It’s the place my family and myself call home since 2003.
Through this site you can schedule and book my interpretation services, find my contact information, and read my blog with my occasional musings on my trade and applied language issues in general. Just use the menu buttons as shown above, on the top right, to navigate around.
As you can glean from the appearance of this site and its deliberately plain domain name, I like simplicity, clarity, directness, and a thoughtful but rigorous commitment to perfection in what I do. Because I do it for the benefit of real people, and ultimately for the wider community of which I am but a part.
Speaking of which: to the right, you’ll find links to a few places on the Net of language related non-profit organizations here in Nevada. If you don’t know them, I recommend paying them a visit. They do tons of good work in a variety of fields. I know, because I am very much familiar with them and I am happy to support them where I can. Such as – you guessed it – by drawing attention to what they do!
Now, getting back to my profession as an interpreter: it is not an exact science. Neither is it a form of brilliantly inspired art. I consider it a craft. It certainly helps to have a knack for it; it still takes very hard and ongoing work to be any good at it. Just like any other craft, it benefits mostly from a persistent dedication to developing the profession, and an equally deep love for the instrument, the object and the very essence of our trade: language. That one and truly characteristic feature, which makes us and truly distinguishes us as human beings.
Thank you for visiting this place, feel free to leave a comment, and hopefully: hasta pronto.
