If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that I also teach my potential future colleagues. One of "my" subjects is Career Studies, where I try to…
... to pause and reflect on the past year. I know how you feel - already December almost gone, only a few days left until Christmas, still so much left…
Translators don't translate words - they translate meaning Machines and dictionaries translate words. But it takes a thinking, reasoning human being to translate what words mean. Consider how you would…
The first three weeks of August, I was on "real" vacation, meaning I actually left home for the sole purpose of relaxing and not working, for the first time in…
It’s oral exam and interpreting exam week! Coffee is a requisite drink, and it has to be in the right mug, of course.
Today, I received an email from LinkedIn, congratulating me on 14 years of being a member of the community there. My first thought was, "What? That can't be right! I…
Although I became a state-certified translator and interpreter for Spanish first, since I started out as a freelancer, I have been mainly working with English, for which I took the…
... are also teaching at the Fachakademie für Sprachen und international Kommunikation in Weiden/OPf., where one of their students very creatively drew them on the blackboard for this year's open…
... then you're doing it wrong! (c)Translator Dude (and he knows what he's talking about!)
The more you know, the harder it gets, until suddenly... Once you begin to really understand your source language, you gradually become aware of its subtleties. That's when you start…
