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 […]
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 […]
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 🙂
So at the end of last year I finished translating a very entertaining and motivating Italian book into Polish. The author has come up with a trailer to help promote the sales: Looks entertaining? Click here to buy it then! 🙂
Some time ago I started going to singing classes. Initially it was purely for pleasure but I have since noticed that it really helps with learning pronunciation, mastering accents and acquiring new vocabulary. And it’s just so much fun! I highly recommend it to anyone and posting here my first tentative attempts 🙂
The site of a builder and interior decorator, the ever-friendly Mr Łukasz: http://www.lucasbuildingcompany.co.uk
A new ad I have just made:
