Jan 23rd, 2018 | Continuing Ed., Reference, Translation, Worthy of a Visit | No Comments
by Monique Longton
If you are considering starting – or have just started – a career in the translation industry, this article may be for you.
Here’s a challenge: if you had to choose a picture to describe the actual process taking place inside your brain when you translate, what would you pick? Personally, I would go for two pictures of one bridge: the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
The old London Bridge spanning the River Thames in England
The London Bridge today, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
May 1st, 2014 | Continuing Ed., French, NCTA Events | Comments Off on ADDING UP THE NUMBERS
Webinar presenter David Jemielity
January 2014 marked a milestone—NCTA’s first webinar! This new chapter in NCTA’s history was kicked off by David Jemielity, Senior English Translator and Head of Translations at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise in Switzerland.
BY SARAH LLEWELLYN
I first came across David Jemielity at the ATA conference in Denver, where he was the Distinguished Speaker for the French Language Division, delivering two terrific presentations on how to make financial translations sound less like… translations. When I asked him last year if he would be willing to adapt his presentations into a webinar for us, I was thrilled when he said yes. His presentation had never been offered as a webinar, so we also had a world first! → continue reading
May 1st, 2014 | Continuing Ed., Japanese, NCTA Events | Comments Off on NATURAL ENGLISH IN JA-EN TRANSLATIONS? YES, IT IS POSSIBLE!
When he’s not presenting a webinar, Mike Karpa can be found walking his whoodle.
The inaugural season of NCTA webinars has found scores of fans, both stateside and abroad, allowing NCTA members to connect and learn a few new tricks.
BY MARIAN KINOSHITA
A few weeks ago, I participated in my very first webinar. Actually, participated isn’t quite accurate. I signed up, fully aware that the live March 4th broadcast at the civilized hour of 9 a.m. (in San Francisco) signified a harrowing 2 a.m. for me the following morning (Japan Standard Time). I opted for the recording, available to participants for 90 days after the session. As a webinar neophyte, I wasn’t sure what to expect. → continue reading
Sep 1st, 2012 | Perspective, Translation | Comments Off on TRANSLATION AND ETHNOGRAPHY: ETHNOCENTRIC OR NON-ETHNOCENTRIC?
Two disciplines, common goals: understanding cultural codes, discovering order in “the foreign,” rendering through language an appreciation of “the unknown other.”
BY MEHDI ASADZADEH AND ALI ABBASI
To an ordinary reader, translation might mean finding “equivalents” for the words of the source text in the target language, thereby making the words of one language understandable in another. But for a translation researcher, it denotes a broader phenomenon where the strangeness has to be found out, decoded and incorporated into the rendered text. → continue reading
Sep 1st, 2012 | Business Tools, Reviews, Translation | Comments Off on THE TRANSLORIAL TOOL KIT
The Tool Kit is an online newsletter that comes to its subscribers’ mailboxes twice a month. In Translorial, we offer a quarterly digest of Jost’s most helpful tips from the past season. BY JOST ZETZSCHE © 2012 INTERNATIONAL WRITERS’ GROUP, COMPILED BY YVES AVÉROUS
Refactored memoQRather than just looking at the new features of recent tools and versions of
memoQ, I chatted with the developers to get some of the background story. I met with István and Gábor to hear them out about
version 6.
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Jan 1st, 2012 | Conferences, Reports, Translation | Comments Off on FITTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Hosted by the ATA and NCTA, the triennial conference for the International Federation of Translators provided insight and camaraderie for translators and translation companies alike. BY MARILYN LUONG
The world is getting smaller. We as translators (including interpreters and other language professionals) have facilitated this shrinkage. In the beginning of August this year, we have made the world yet a little smaller through gathering at the triennial conference of the International Federation of Translators (FIT). Held in
San Francisco, the conference was hosted by the American Translators Association (ATA). As the host chapter, NCTA had a well-visited exhibit booth. → continue reading
