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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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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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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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featured abcMallorca magazine 50th edition

Posted in My Translation Work, My writing, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I am really very proud of my contributions to the latest abcMallorca magazine, the 50th, Gold edition. Once again, I did all the English to Spanish and Spanish to English translations and as ever learnt a lot of new things by translating some really top notch articles. I also wrote an article myself: ‘The 50 [...]

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Associate Member of the CIOL

Posted in General Musings of a Translator, languages, My Translation Work, My writing, tagged , , , , , on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As I mentioned in my latest newsletter, I am now an Associate Member of the CIOL, Chartered Institute of Linguists in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1910, the Institute now has around 6,500 Fellows, Members and Associate Members. It aims to: promote the learning and use of modern languages improve the status of all professional [...]

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the things you learn when you translate..

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , , on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Every day I am more and more fascinated by the amount of things I learn in my work as a translator. As a professional translator I often have to research subjects I know nothing about in order to get up to speed and be able to translate a text about the subject as if I [...]

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Victoria Amengual Translations

Posted in My Translation Work, tagged , , on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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