The Witcher games and series have been on everyone’s lips for some time now and I’ve got a real treat for you! Here’s my interview with David French, the translator of the Witcher books from Polish into English David has translated six books by Andrzej Sapkowski and he’s working on another three now. As it happens, we live in the same town! This year, I’ve […]
In our previous text, we told you what tricks we use to make remote work nice and smooth. While writing the article, we gave more thought to the subject. Is home office a boon or bane? This question seems to stir a lot of controversy. As a result of the pandemic, many people had to move their work home, which is not the best solution […]
We planned the text on the upsides and downsides of working from home some months ago, but in the current situation – the world is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic – we’ve decided to write and publish it sooner and to take these circumstances into account. We hope that you’ll find some useful tips about how to work from home effectively and hassle-free: […]
When a text is sent to be translated, translation itself is only a part of the whole service ordered. Translation may come with revision, review, and proofreading, or any of those can be ordered separately. You may wonder, though, what do these terms mean? They sound near-synonymous, after all. In this article, we clarify this somewhat confusing terminology and describe the particular stages of the […]
In our previous entries we’ve told you what our standard days look like, what we actually translate, what tools (like CAT software here and there) and hardware we use. Now we would like to tell you what we actually do when we translate and what our translation process is. Translation process – first steps Of course, this entry presents some general notes about our translation […]
As promised a long time ago, we’re here with a text about what it is that translators dislike. There are a couple of examples to mention; however, lest we sound too negative, we encourage you to start with our first article about translators’ likes. What are translators’ dislikes? What makes us angry, irritated, and annoyed, even if we’re hiding it well? What gets on our […]
Today, you are officially invited behind the scenes of our office and we’re going to let you take a sneak peak of our everyday translation work. And life, too. It’s hard to say for sure where and when one ends and the other begins. How does a translator work? It’s safe to say, though, that no day in the life of a translator is like […]
Previously on Translatorion… we told you about the types of texts that we translate. Today’s article is a follow-up to that, as it presents various representatives of the realm of translators. We’re also going to point out the categories which apply to us. Types of translators As we’ve already said – we don’t mean to pigeonhole anyone but to show you what services a particular […]
In our previous post we told you about the things we like. Today, we’d like to tell you more about types of translation. Read on to check what we translate – and what we don’t. Types of translation When we first meet a new person and they ask us what we do for a living, the usual reaction to our reply ‘We’re translators’ is ‘Ooooh! […]
This is us, Translatorion. Martyna and Paweł, Paweł and Martyna. We are translators, philologists, and linguists. Through this blog, we’d like to show you what it actually means. We live together and we work together. And we believe it pretty lucky to have a job that involves what we love most, i.e. language in its various meanings. Our daily work consists in tinkering with thousands […]