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…
When I graduated from the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2001, next on my planned life path was a Master’s degree in Translation. Due to family and financial reasons that wasn’t viable right then, so I returned to Crete…
This morning I received an email from an individual wishing to make the first steps to the world of translation. I always recall my days, when I was sending my CV right and left, up and down to get new…
I have decided to start a series of posts on the steps translators took to climb the translator’s ladder, in other words, what various translators did after graduation until they became freelance translators. I will act as the first episode…
Lately I came across an application on Twitter (UseQwitter by Qwitter) that produces a weekly report of the people that unfollow an account on Twitter. I had not noticed my number of followers to change so I thought I was…
In the life of every freelancer, regardless the field of work, the income cannot quite be characterized as steady. There are times that there is a flood of work and there are other times that no new project is in…
I was first introduced to it by Natali Lekka (a fellow Greek translator and University buddy) and I thought it was a marvelous idea! As I was up to my ears in work I did not have time to go…
The translation process is somehow more complicated than most people think! It is not just a mere replacement of words in a different language and a vague knowledge of the grammar of the target language or a copy-paste-copy action in…