Welcome everyone to the fifth episode of the translation & interpreting “red carpet” series, featuring remarkable guests of the industry who kindly accepted to share with us their views on some common points. After having Valeria Aliperta and Marta Stelmaszak in the previous episodes, the guest of this week is the Spanish interpreter, Clara Guelbenzu. If […]
Welcome everyone to the fourth episode of the translation & interpreting “red carpet” series, featuring remarkable guests of the industry who kindly accepted to share with us their views on some common points. After having Marta Stelmaszak in the third episode, the guest of this week is Valeria Aliperta, whom, again, you’ll be surely familiar […]
Welcome everyone to the third episode of the translation & interpreting “red carpet” series, featuring remarkable guests of the industry who kindly accepted to share with us their views on some common points. The guest of this week is nothing less than Marta Stelmaszak, whom you’ll surely know if you’re active in the translation and interpreting community. […]
Como se ha mencionado en entradas anteriores, por muy solitos que estemos cuando traducimos en casa y por mucho que nuestro uniforme favorito suela ser el pijama, los autónomos somos una empresa. Por lo tanto, deberíamos tener un modelo de negocio, tema sobre el que se hablará en esta entrada. Uno de los modelos de […]
In the previous post, “How can freelancers find new clients?“, we saw that a great proportion of translation and interpreting professionals go freelance, constituting the fifth largest freelance group according to the International Freelancers Academy. Yet, freelancing can be seen by some as a leap into the unknown or even as a roller-coster if you don’t have […]
Hace años, escribí un artículo a partir de una pequeña investigación terminológica que llevé acabo sobre las expresiones “jugar el papel”, “jugar un papel” y “jugar papel” (incorrecta). Como el tema acaba de mencionarse en la red, aprovecho para publicarlo a continuación. Introducción El objetivo de este documento es examinar la expresión “jugar un papel” a […]
According to the International Freelancers Academy, translators and interpreters are the fifth largest population of freelancers. Yet, besides being extremely rewarding, such a great entrepreneurship characterising our industry leads to a series of challenges. I would say that the very first challenge is how to find clients, especially in a period of economic downturn. This issue can […]
Dal 2008 è molto probabile che la parola più utilizzata ogni giorno è “crisi”, carica di connotazioni negative che non fanno che ricordarci la difficile situazione che abbiamo davanti. Per lottare contro tale negativismo, negli ultimi anni si è diffuso esponenzialmente il concetto di crisi, come combinazione di “pericolo” e di “opportunità” (secondo i caratteri cinesi corrispondenti). […]
In this short post I would like to share a personal experience I’ve recently had as a customer and explain how powerful a good quality translation can be. Last week I had been searching on the web for a specific product, which I could find at an affordable price, not very surprisingly, only in China. […]
Are you a freelancer or a one-person business? Then you already know what I’ll be talking about! Would you like to go freelance or run your own business? Then you should have a look at what I’ll be talking about! A very good point Judy and Dagmar V. Jenner make in their book, “The Entrepreneurial […]
