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Over the last couple of weeks, France, Germany and Japan have all announced that they are now officially out of recession - that is to say, their economies are no longer shrinking and their GDP is up. The UK and the US, however, are still officially in recession.
Personally, the recession is still having an impact [...]
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I was recently asked what it’s like to work as a freelance translator and what sort of work I do as a marketing translator. Here’s an insight into a typical day’s work:
8 a.m.
My office hours officially start. 90% of my clients are based in Germany, which is one hour ahead of the UK. So it’s [...]
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As translators, we not only have to make sure that we keep our language skills fresh; we also have to keep up-to-date on what’s going on in the fields that we work in. Some of us our generalists, in which case we must keep abreast of developments in a wide range of fields. Others are [...]
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Having caught my eye in Werben & Verkaufen magazine’s book recommendations, I decided to order a copy of Vom Pitch zum Award. Wie Werbung gemacht wird to help increase my knowledge of the advertising world. Billed as an indispensable guide to the advertising industry, it does not disappoint. With clear, easy-to-read sections on the different [...]
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Last weekend, I attended the ITI Conference 2009 - Sustainability in Translation. In the spirit of the conference topic ‘moving with the times’, I chose to give mini summaries of the key things that I took away from the both days of the conference on Twitter. Having only 140 characters in which to summarise a [...]
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