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…because even heads of state still desperately need us! Thanks to English>French translator Nelia Fahloun for mentioning this on Twitter! Early this morning Paris time, French president François Hollande (himself a recent election winner) put pen to paper to congratulate Barack Obama on his re-election. Hollande’s letter, written in French, is warm and diplomatic. He offers …
As part of an upcoming overhaul of my professional website, I decided it was time for Thoughts on Translation to get a nice custom header image instead of the stock photos I’ve been using for the past two and a half years. Thanks to Brandon Kellogg of Denver-based Superfluent Design for this beautiful (in my opinion!) …
Summer always brings great opportunities for travel, especially in our internationally-minded industry. And along with those travels come some great vacation photos from colleagues! Here (reprinted with Jiri’s permission) is one that made me laugh out loud: former ATA President Jiri Stejskal having trouble getting any work done during his vacation to the Czech Republic, because… …
My good friend and colleague Eve Bodeux is gathering input from freelancers and translation agencies for her upcoming presentation “Vendors and You: A Positive Partnership from the Start.” She’ll be presenting this session at the upcoming Vendor Management Seminar in Las Vegas. Whether you’re a freelancer or you work for an agency, what factors are most …
Spanish to English translator Nicole Lisa recently interviewed me for the Love Your Job blog, and the interview is now online here. You can also read the earlier interviews in Love Your Job’s “5 questions for…” series, with posts about an actor, an architect and a voice teacher who all love their jobs.
I need to update the look of my website and marketing materials; it’s a task I really struggle with because I’m just not a very visual person. Read me a sentence and I can tell you right away if I like it or not, but show me an array of colors, shapes and layouts and I’m …
Episode 4 of Speaking of Translation, the podcast that Eve Bodeux and I host, is now live! For this episode, we interviewed Judy Jenner during her recent visit to Colorado and talked to her about marketing pitfalls and best practices for freelance translators. The episode is 23 minutes long and you can either listen to it …
This isn’t specifically translation-related, but given that many translators live in bilingual households, I think it’s not OT either. My colleague and friend Eve Bodeux recently launched a new blog, appropriately titled Blogging on Bilingualism, with articles and resources of interest to bilingual families or really anyone interested in bilingualism. As Eve’s “About” page says “This …
The third episode of Speaking of Translation is live! Speaking of Translation is a podcast (I think that you can guess the general topic…) hosted by Eve Bodeux and myself, and in each episode we focus on a different aspect of the translation industry. This time, we reviewed a number of translation and language-related blogs that …
I haven’t yet started using Twitter, but I have a number of Facebook friends who feed their Tweets to their Facebook status updates (is that enough Web 2.0 references in one sentence?), and I’ve wondered about the meaning of the hash mark (#) that people include in their Tweets. For example “I was talking on my …
