Confessions of a Freelance Translator
This award-winning book deals gives practical advice for freelance translators on how to organise workflows and improve the quality of services we give to our monolingual clients, guiding them through…
Machines translate. Humans write.
Six reasons why machines can never replace human translators One Humans read between and behind the lines. (What is the author’s intent?) “What did you think of…
The importance of specialisation…and generalisation
Sometimes in my talks for translators I give the audience a simple test with a surprising result. I ask for a show of hands to see who knows…
Word Crunching
As many who translate scientific texts know, this is one of the very few professions where the world of arts and letters is condemned to cooperate with and understand…
La Lengua Digital
Los traductores que trabajan con textos científicos ya saben que esta es una de las pocas profesiones donde el mundo de las artes y de las letras está condenado…
Officialitis
If you ask most foreign translators what they least like about working in another country, they will often name the bureaucracy involved. When I first came to Spain I quickly…