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Welcome to the third and final sneak peek of The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, the course designed to support new freelance translators through the difficulty early months of their career.  In this sneak peek: block 3, which is all about skills, colleagues and choices. For more information, or to register, head to: www.bwtranslation.co.uk/f12w-2025  

Welcome to the second sneak peek of The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, the course designed to support new freelance translators through the difficulty early months of their career.  In this sneak peek: block 2, which is all about clients, marketing and positioning. For more information, or to register, head to: www.bwtranslation.co.uk/f12w-2025  

Welcome to the first sneak peek of The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, the course designed to support new freelance translators through the difficulty early months of their career.  In this sneak peek: block 1, which is all about productivity, project management and pricing. For more information, or to register, head to: www.bwtranslation.co.uk/f12w-2025  

We are delighted to announce The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, a miniseries of the podcast being released as a structured course to support new freelance translators through those difficult early months. For more information, or to register, head to: www.bwtranslation.co.uk/f12w-2025   Sneak peeks will be posted here over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

Our guest for this episode is Joachim Lépine, who joins us to talk about artificial intelligence (AI), and the impact it is already having – and will only continue to have – on the translation profession, and how translators can best navigate this brave new world by emphasising the value that humans bring to the translation process.   Guest: Joachim (Joe) Lépine was born into a French-speaking fam...

This episode we're joined by Claire Shih, of UCL's Centre for Translation Studies, to talk about her work on what's going on in the translator's mind as they work, and particularly her recent research into how translators use search engines.   Guest: Claire Shih Dr Claire Shih is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at UCL's Centre for Translation Studies and has been lectur...

As freelancers, we're responsible for every aspect of our business at all times - including when things go wrong. Join your three regular cohosts to talk through how we plan to prevent business interruptions, and what we do when they inevitably arise. Hosts: David Stockings LinkedIn / Website Nick Nicou LinkedIn   Hannah Lawrence LinkedIn / Website You can also follow the podcast on LinkedIn for u...

Parenting as a freelancer can be challenging, but also hugely rewarding. This episode we're joined by Katherine Capaldi and Roz Howarth, who are both involved in running the ITI Parent and Carer Network , to talk about how to survive and thrive as a freelance parent.   Guests: Katherine Capaldi Katherine Capaldi is a freelance translator working from French, Spanish and Portuguese into English, ma...

In this host-only episode, we're getting into the nitty-gritty details of how we manage our schedules as freelancers so that we can make the most of our time, whilst also keeping the 'free' in 'freelancing'. Hosts: David Stockings LinkedIn / Website Nick Nicou LinkedIn Hannah Lawrence LinkedIn / Website You can also follow the podcast on LinkedIn for updates about the show and other resources for...

This episode your three regular hosts get together to talk about how we manage our translation workflows and ensure that we are consistently delivering the kind of quality service that our clients expect from us.   Hosts: David Stockings LinkedIn / Website Nick Nicou LinkedIn Hannah Lawrence LinkedIn / Website You can also follow the podcast on LinkedIn for updates about the show and other resourc...

This episode, we're talking all things project management, primarily from an outsourcer's perspective, and we're joined by two excellent guests – Ryan Bury and Olivia Cockburn – to do just that.   Guests: Ryan Bury Translator, project manager and team leader with over a decade of experience in the UK language services industry, now pursuing new opportunities in Montreal, Canada. LinkedIn Olivia Co...

Business planning is something that many freelance translators – especially new ones – find intimidating. Fortunately we are joined in this episode by Susie Jackson, a freelance translator and business mentor, to talk it all through. Guest: Susie Jackson Susie is a finance and pricing mentor to freelancers, helping them to figure out how much they should be charging and how to manage the financial...

What were the key takeaways in the translation and interpreting world in 2024? And what should we be focussing on as a profession as we head into the new year? We're joined by two members of the Board of Translation and Interpreting to talk about these massive questions.   Guests: Sara Robertson FRSA FIIC Sara trained as an architect at Edinburgh College of Art where she specialised in historic bu...

Jacqueline Ball, German-English subtitler extraordinaire, joins us for our final profile of the season. How did Jacqueline get into subtitling and why does she love it so much? And what steps should you take if you also want to get into subtitling?  Guest Jacqueline Ball https://about.me/jacqueline_ball   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinesball/    We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestion...

Prof Lynne Bowker joins us to talk about the important working being done in the Machine Translation Literacy Project. Translators are not the only users of MT - in fact, we're probably not even the main users. So what do non-translator users of MT understand about the technology? How do they use it? And why does this matter to us as translators?   Guest Prof Lynne Bowker https://uniweb.uottawa.ca...

Part 2 of 2 of our conversation with Daniela Ford about technology in the translation industry. This time, we're focusing on MT and how technology has changed the way we work, particularly how we research our translations. Please note that this conversation was recorded before ChatGPT exploded into public awareness, and that's the only reason it's not mentioned. We will very likely come back to Ch...

Part 1 of 2 of our conversation with Daniela Ford about technology in the translation industry. This first part we mainly talk about CAT tools - what they are, how they work and what benefits they can bring. Part 2 to follow next week. Please note that this conversation was recorded before ChatGPT exploded into public awareness, and that's the only reason it's not mentioned. We will in all likelih...

This episode we have another of our profiles of working language professionals, this time with Janet Wolckenhaar. It's a fascinating conversation that proves just how many opportunities really are out there in the language profession if you look properly.    Guest Janet Wolckenhaar https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetwolckenhaar/   https://www.ciol.org.uk/member-check/profile/54249/17924     We'd lov...

Continuing with the question of specialisation, our guest this episode is Sarah Silva, also known as The Chemical Translator. How did she combine her love of chemistry and language? And just how niche should you go? Do you risk putting limitations on yourself by specialising too narrowly? (Spoiler alert: no.) Guest Sarah Silva https://chemicaltranslator.com/   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahsilv...

We're back! And we're joined by Fiona Gray (of Grayscale Translations) to talk all things specialisation: What does she specialise in? How did she get into it? How does she communicate her specialisation? And do you even need to specialise? Guest Website: www.grayscaletranslations.co.uk   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-gray/   Twitter: @GrayscaleTR Instagram: @grayscaletranslations We...

For our final episode of the season, we have another profile episode, this time speaking to Anikó Pető-Mordovski, a freelance translator and project manager. Anikó, like many freelancer translators, has had a very diverse career and seen the industry from many different angles, so she has really valuable insight to share with us. Recorded 22/6/2021   Anikó Pető-Mordovski https://paprikatranslation...

Like many other industries, networking is incredibly important for the translation industry, and something that this episode's guest, Gabrielle Ferenczi, knows all about. She joins us to provide some tips on networking for beginners, gleaned from her years of experience, including as the organiser of the Language Professionals' Networking Event. Recorded 4/8/2021   Gabriella Ferenczi https://gabri...

This episode we are looking at the current state of the language industry, and we could not have a better guest to talk about that than Sarah Hickey of Nimdzi Insights. Sarah provides expert insight into current trends in the industry and what they mean for translators, like us. Recorded 24/6/2021   Sarah Hickey https://www.nimdzi.com/ sarah@nimdzi.com @SarahHickeyINT https://www.linkedin.com/in/s...

This episode is another of our profiles, this time of Holly-Anne Whyte, a highly experienced freelance translator who specialises in human rights, sustainable development and corporate governance. Recorded 13/10/2020   Resources mentioned: Holly's blog post on specialisation: https://hollyannewhyte.blogspot.com/2019/09/grow-your-own-specialisation.html   EU resources on clear writing: https://ec.e...