In the spirit of using this blog as a forum for sharing ideas, opinions and resources, this week’s post continues the topic of how to maintain your language skills with a selection of resources that I find useful for my own language combination, German to English. I’d also like to invite you to share your [...]
As translators, making sure that our language skills are top-notch is essential. We not only have to make sure that our source language skills remain up-to-date but also need to keep tabs on the language that we translate into. The pressures and time constraints that we face in our daily lives mean that this can [...]
I’ve seen this question raised elsewhere in the blogosphere, including at Masked Translator: can marketing material actually be translated or does it need to be created from scratch for a new language and a new market? Opinions on this matter have been varied, ranging from doubts regarding the ethics of translating marketing texts through to [...]
by Serena on 24 February 2009
in Events
Following the success of its 21st Anniversary Conference in 2007, the ITI is holding another conference this year at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at 1 Birdcage Walk, London, from 16 to 17 May 2009.
Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in recent times, particularly in the business world, and this is an opportunity to reflect on how [...]