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Translating in Majorca

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hi everyone! I have been busy keeping everyone up to date with all the preparations for International Women’s Day over on the IWD blog. Remember tickets are now on sale for this great event taking place in Mallorca which I am very happy to be sponsoring with my translation services (and prices go up on [...]

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On the subject of Test Translations

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I recently came across the following blog post (which I am copying in here for the sake of clarity) on a really useful translator blog: http://translationjournal.blogspot.com/2006/04/test-translations.html Many translation clients request free translations as a precondition for a paid assignment. Is this a reasonable request? And if so, what is a reasonable size of a test [...]

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Checking in…

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , , on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I have quite a lot going on this week, so just checking in quickly. Today I am translating a legal document for a local Yacht Brokers here in Mallorca. As always happens with legal translations, I have been uncovering some interesting new aspects of Spanish law which I didn’t know about. Tomorrow I am going [...]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! / FELIZ AÑO NUEVO

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , , on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Busy doing some marketing today and excited by all the new possibilities 2012 will surely bring. If you require translation services remember you can contact me for a quote at any time. I look forward to hearing from you. Victoria xx ¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! Hoy estoy ocupada haciendo un poco de marketing [...]

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Property Investment Translation

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This week I have completed the translation of a website about property investments in brazil: www.ilengroup.com. The content of this website is quite specialised and I had to do quite a lot of research into the industry in order to do it justice. It also needed to be done quickly. There was quite a lot of factual [...]

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New customer – Marc Fosh Restaurants

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, My writing, tagged , , , , , , on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I am very proud to announce that I have started working with the well known restaurant group ‘Marc Fosh Restaurants’ owned and run by the distinguished and talented Chef, Marc Fosh. One of my first jobs for them has been to translate their Newsletter – which is packed full of interesting information about their business [...]

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Nuevo cliente – Marc Fosh Restaurants

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Es un placer anunciar que he empezado a trabajar con el conocido grupo de restaurantes del Chef Marc Fosh. Uno de los primeros trabajos que he realizado para ellos ha sido la traducción de su boletín de noticias – el cual está lleno de información interesante sobre los 3 restaurantes, servicio de catering y el [...]

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Traduciendo para una novia…

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Últimamente he estado pasando más tiempo fuera de la oficina. He tenido varios trabajos muy diferentes y originales. Por ejemplo la vez que tuve que traducir para una novia en el día de su boda. La novia en cuestión era inglesa y había contratado a una peluquera y a una maquilladora, ambas españolas que no [...]

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Translating for a bride…

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, My Translation Work, tagged , , , on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The last couple of months have seen me moving away from my desk more often than usual… I have had a couple of really interesting and different jobs.. take the time I had to translate for a bride for example. The bride in question contacted me through my website and asked if I would assist [...]

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AMIGOS

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, tagged , , on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Esta semana se estrena AMIGOS de Marcos Cabotá. Os animo a todos a que vayáis a verla al cine. Es su primera película. Marcos además de ser mallorquín, es Bellverian y fue integrante de Centre Stage Productions… (¡como yo!) Y es un gran AMIGO. ¡Suerte y enhorabuena Marcos!

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