TEACHER Take a nice, lean slice of beef. Season it lightly with some dried species of your choice and maybe a little oregano. Let it rest in room temperature for at least one hour before cooking. Melt a little coconut oil on high fire in a skillet, and throw the meat on for exactly one […]
HER The girl in my fourth grade who told everyone she was part snake and kept crawling around the lawn on her belly at recess is engaged and I have just been ghosted two times. So much to think about. How do you even meet anyone anymore these days? And why am I thinking about […]
In the life of a translator there are many things that could make our life difficult: WiFi is down, client changes the deadline half-way through a job, having to chase an invoice against a big solicitor’s firm… Well, these are all mundane day-to-day difficulties that are overcome with persistence and determination. What is much more […]
My first proper voice over to a book I translated myself from Italian into Polish ;] Want to look like a Arnold Schwarzenneger without steroids? This is the book for you! https://www.bookrepublic.it/book/9788893987721-sekrety-treningu-old-school/
What can I say about being an interpreter that has not already been said? Well, anything really, because it simply seems like there is not a single good book describing the profession. Sure, there are plenty that teach the techniques and more professional aspects of the job, but show me a book that tells you […]
This is my latest finished translation project, a site of a company that helps in getting compensation for an accident at work: https://www.workclaimsbureau.co.uk/pl Want me to do your site as well? Get in touch, call or write to me and I’m sure we can make it happen 🙂
Today something delicious for Italian cuisine afficionados! Browsing through some pictures from my trip to Egypt a few years ago I remembered about the menu of one Italian restaurant, particularly the very creative linguistic solutions applied there 🙂 The names for Pizza Napoli and Quattro Formaggi received a very creative and phonetic treatment. On top […]
I used to watch all TED talks fanatically, wish I had more time to do it now… Fascinating!
I’m just reading a fiction novel, the protagonist is a translator struggling to translate Dante faithfully from Italian to English. The book is so-so, but I found a passage that resonates with me so much: “I’d once loved translation, before I got all complicated about it. Weighing poetic elements, deciding which to highlight, which to […]
Everyone hates it when their client talks too much and tests their short-term memory… Still I’d kill to interpret for Klopp 🙂
