Blog
Please do enjoy and follow my journey to becoming a professional translator below.
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Welcome to my Journey
Welcome to the very first post on my brand new website where I aim to share with you my translation journey and its trials tribulations and successes. I aim to post at the very…
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Helping Out a Friend
I recently subtitled this video game development vlog for a friend and their game Bad Sector. Despite its challenges with all the mumbling where they spoke a bit too fast or slow (see 01:34),…
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A deep dive into Subtitling for the World Cup
I feel absolutely honoured to say I had the opportunity to translate, subtitle and transcribe interviews and promotional video content for the World Cup. These interviews ranged from player and coach interviews to interviews…
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Expertise vs. Experience: Which is better? There’s only one way to find out… fight?
The above title is in reference to the British comedy show that analysed, and I use the term loosely, and commented on what happened in the previous week’s TV from the 2000s, Harry Hill’s…
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The Impact of Making an Impact
With every twist and turn of my life’s journey, I’ve always wanted to make an impact and a difference to someone. This has led me into translation, as I’ve always wanted to make sure…
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Struggling for Ideas
This morning, I was struggling for post ideas, both for here and LinkedIn. We’ve all been there, stuck looking at a bunch of blank Post-It notes like the kid above, willing our brains to…
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AI Translation: Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and discuss the use of AI in terms of translation. Sure, it enables many people to increase turnaround times and save money by getting an AI…
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Public Growth and the Different Art of Subtitling
The last couple of weeks have seen me grow into a translator and somebody who now has work to his name that is publicly available for everyone to see. My volunteering as a TED…
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Online Networking and the Translation Profession
Almost, a couple of weeks ago now, I attended an online networking session with a group of relatively new freelances set up by the lovely, Silke Kogler as part of this peer group she…
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The Dichotomy of the Personal and the Professional
Within work, we are all taught to separate our personal and professional lives, however, this is not always 100% possible as we are, humans after all. It can bleed into our lives in unexpected,…