Being a student at the faculty of foreign languages, I used every opportunity to practice my English and French, so by the day of my graduation I've already had experience as translator of different technical texts and interpreter at the…
My name is Tess Whitty, an English into Swedish freelance translator. Many people have asked how I became a translator and when Konstantina asked me to write about how I climbed the translation career ladder after my graduation, I gladly…
Like many women, my private life has had a big impact on my work life. But, also, I have to admit that my path to become a translator hasn’t always been straightforward. I graduated in Language Studies in 2001. At…
High school My translating career actually started long before graduation! In fact, I was a high school student then. I studied in a special school where English was just as important as Russian or Maths, or any other core subjects.…
I never thought I would become a translator, although I grew up in a bilingual environment (my mother is a native French speaker). I knew from a young age that I would work with languages but translation was never part…