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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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My contributions to abcMallorca February/March 2012

Posted in My Translation Work, My writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The new abcMallorca magazine is now out and available to buy at kiosks across the island. As ever, it has been a pleasure to contribute to the magazine. I met Margo and Juan from MSO_Architects and this edition includes an article by me about their business and about sustainable architecture and design in general. I [...]

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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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Mi boletín de noticias de diciembre: ¡cargado de buenos deseos para las fiestas!

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

‎”El lector ideal es un traductor. Es capaz de desmenuzar un texto, retirarle la piel, cortarlo hasta la médula, seguir cada arteria y cada vena y luego poner en pie a un nuevo ser viviente.” Alberto Manguel Se acercan las fiestas navideñas y quiero aprovechar para agradeceros vuestra colaboración y apoyo y para desearos todo [...]

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This month’s news: with best wishes for the festive season!

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

”A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.” John Millington Synge Christmas is well on its way and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this year and to wish you a very Happy [...]

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Algunas citas sobre la traducción

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

El lector ideal es un traductor. Es capaz de desmenuzar un texto, retirarle la piel, cortarlo hasta la médula, seguir cada arteria y cada vena y luego poner en pie a un nuevo ser viviente. Alberto Manguel “En el mundo actual las nuevas conexiones tienen que superar muchas barreras, no sólo las barreras de la [...]

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Traductora en Mallorca: Breve descripción

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Soy bilingüe y traductora titulada por el Instituto Lingüístico del Reino Unido (Certified Institute of Linguists CIOL). Soy diplomada en Filología Clásica (latín y griego) por la Universidad de Durham, Reino Unido. Combino mi trabajo como traductora con el de redactar contenidos para publicaciones tanto en inglés como en español, una práctica que me ayuda [...]

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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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