Welcome everyone to the third episode of the translation & interpreting “red carpet” series, featuring remarkable guests of the industry who kindly accepted to share with us their views on some common points. The guest of this week is nothing less than Marta Stelmaszak, whom you’ll surely know if you’re active in the translation and interpreting community. […]
In the previous post, “How can freelancers find new clients?“, we saw that a great proportion of translation and interpreting professionals go freelance, constituting the fifth largest freelance group according to the International Freelancers Academy. Yet, freelancing can be seen by some as a leap into the unknown or even as a roller-coster if you don’t have […]
According to the International Freelancers Academy, translators and interpreters are the fifth largest population of freelancers. Yet, besides being extremely rewarding, such a great entrepreneurship characterising our industry leads to a series of challenges. I would say that the very first challenge is how to find clients, especially in a period of economic downturn. This issue can […]
Dal 2008 è molto probabile che la parola più utilizzata ogni giorno è “crisi”, carica di connotazioni negative che non fanno che ricordarci la difficile situazione che abbiamo davanti. Per lottare contro tale negativismo, negli ultimi anni si è diffuso esponenzialmente il concetto di crisi, come combinazione di “pericolo” e di “opportunità” (secondo i caratteri cinesi corrispondenti). […]
In this short post I would like to share a personal experience I’ve recently had as a customer and explain how powerful a good quality translation can be. Last week I had been searching on the web for a specific product, which I could find at an affordable price, not very surprisingly, only in China. […]
En los últimos años la localización ha experimentado un gran auge debido al gran potencial que las empresas ven en expandir su negocio. El hecho de que menos de un 30 % de los usuarios de internet habla inglés es, sin duda, un dato significativo a raíz de este fenómeno. Con respecto al proceso de […]
Translation and interpreting are two sides of the same coin, that of intercultural and multilingual communication. Yet, even if sharing some common aspects, they are not the same. The difference between the two of them can be graphically summarised with the following equation: translation : written = interpreting : oral In other words, the translator is the […]
