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 […]
I wrote a little story some time ago 🙂 There are three protagonists involved. You can find the first part below and soon the other two. You just have to keep coming back here for more if it piqued your interest. HIM This was the first time I laid eyes her, and I already knew […]
I love my job. No two ways about it. I wake up in the morning excited about what kind of real-life story I am going to witness today. Well, sometimes it’s still hard to prepare for a human drama that leaves an indelible mark on your brain long after you’ve learned every little detail of […]
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/
The window blind is slowly raising and falling every so often, moved by gentle gusts of warm wind from the outside, letting in little balls of light into an otherwise dark room. I like to lie on my back here and just look at the clock. It’s one of those old ones which I found […]
I know I have not posted anything here for a while, but it’s not for the lack of trying – it’s been a crazy busy period with lots of business travel, translation conferences and other assignments and I simply put the page updates on a backburner… I have been active in my moments of free […]
Each time when I start worrying that someone is finally going to invent some sort of perfect, magical translation machine and force me to retire Google Translate cheers me up. Just look how wonderfully it dealt with numbers here 🙂 Retirement is still a long way off!
Just a new little ad I have just made for my business 🙂 Feel free to share with anyone!
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 […]
