The Instituto Superior de Intérpretes y Traductores, S.C. (in

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: Superior Institute of Interpreters and Translators), commonly known as ISIT, is a private

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located in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

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. It focuses on interpretation and

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, and it became the first institution in the

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to academically acknowledge these disciplines as

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s. ISIT has worked along with

Fondo de Cultura Económica Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE or simply "Fondo") is a Spanish language, non-profit publishing group, partly funded by the Mexican government. It is based in Mexico but it has subsidiaries throughout the Spanish-speaking world. It was founded in ...

(Economic Culture Fund), the

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL, en, National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural ...

(National Institute of Fine Arts), Asociación de Escritores de México (Writers Association of Mexico) and the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM). It is also a member of the

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. It relies on

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and

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for fields such as automotive,

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and

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. ISIT's library stores 2500 volumes, 250 videocassettes, 90 audio cassettes and 20 maps, and it is recognised by UNAM's

Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas The Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas (CUIB) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), was created on December 14, 1981 according to the creation agreement, signed by the Dean PhD. Octavio Rivero Serrano. It ...

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Instituto Superior de Interpretes y Traductores Educational institutions established in 1964 For-profit universities and colleges in North America Private universities and colleges in Mexico Universities in Mexico City 1964 establishments in Mexico