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Work in Translation Basic Tools #1

Μετάφραση 101 – Tα εργαλεία   #1 Ο Χώρος Ένα από τα πιο βασικά πράγματα για έναν επαγγελματία μεταφραστή είναι ο χώρος στον οποίο δουλεύει. Η μετάφραση είναι μια πολύ μοναχική δουλειά καθώς χρειάζεται πολλή συγκέντρωση και ακόμα περισσότερη έμπνευση, είτε μεταφράζει κανείς εγχειρίδια χρήσης των τελευταίων τεχνολογικών συσκευών, νομικά έγγραφα είτε τις επίπονα διαλεγμένες λέξεις…

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The importance of a day-off!

A tip for translator’s block. Translators, freelancers, creatives of any art…. We all have felt it. When the deadline is approaching quicker than Khaleesi’s dragons  but your progress is slower than George R.R. Martin’s writing pace of the next GoT book! You really want to give it all and finish the masterpiece you are translating…

The weight of your love

Just a track from Editors, from the album of the same name which I totally loved last year! And a quick note before our workshop tomorrow to say I am a little bit stressed but happy too because you know what, 40 people enrolled!!! We were thinking about 10 or 15 max but it is…

Literary vs Technical Translation – 5 major differences

5σημαντικεσ διαφορεσ μεταξυ λογοτεχνικησ και τεχνικησ μεταφρασησ 5 RADICAL differences between Literary and Technical Translation: In literary translation you have fewer unknown words but spend more time deciding which word better conveys the original’s tone.   / Στη λογοτεχνική μετάφραση έχεις λιγότερες άγνωστες λέξεις αλλά αφιερώνεις περισσότερη ώρα στην επιλογή της λέξης που μεταφέρει καλύτερα το νόημα και…

What makes a weekend great !

This weekend catch up reading on: What makes a  children’s book great where authors, illustrators and literary agents discuss content, management and networking for the field of children’s books. What makes a literary translator where an Anglo-German speaking translator shares her journey into translation and freelancing. Moments we have all experienced, from phoning your friends and family…

BCLT Translation Summer School July 2012

Sunday 22 July to  Friday 27 July* The programme will include workshops translating from French, German, Japanese and Spanish into English. For the first time we will also be offering workshops translating from Norwegian into English and from Dutch into English. Further programme information will be added as details are confirmed so please sign up for our e-newsletter…

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