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 […]
Recently I started singing and recording again. As I wrote here before, singing helps a lot in practicing your pronunciation and speaking in another language fluently. This is also why I became a translator – I wanted to know what the artists said in their song lyrics… Try it and see for yourself! Here are […]
Maybe you found yourself here because you are a fellow translator/interpreter eager to compare some tricks of the trade or you are simply here for other reasons. Whatever the case, I thought it might be interesting to put together a list of 5 simple tricks I use to deal with large amounts of text that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Everyone hates it when their client talks too much and tests their short-term memory… Still I’d kill to interpret for Klopp 🙂
