Source 2 Target: Recent Episodes
David Stockings
Jacqueline Ball, German-English subtitler extraordinaire, joins us for our final profile of the season. How did Jacqueline get into subtitling and why does she love it so much? And what steps should you take if you also want to get into subtitling?
Guest Jacqueline Ball https://about.me/jacqueline_ball https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinesball/
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Prof Lynne Bowker joins us to talk about the important working being done in the Machine Translation Literacy Project. Translators are not the only users of MT - in fact, we're probably not even the main users. So what do non-translator users of MT understand about the technology? How do they use it? And why does this matter to us as translators? Guest Prof Lynne Bowker https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/415 Machine Translation Literacy Project https://sites.google.com/view/machinetranslationliteracy/?pli=1 https://twitter.com/LiteracyMachine You can find Prof Bowker's new book De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003217718/de-mystifying-translation-lynne-bowker We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com) or by searching for us on LinkedIn.
Part 2 of 2 of our conversation with Daniela Ford about technology in the translation industry. This time, we're focusing on MT and how technology has changed the way we work, particularly how we research our translations.
Please note that this conversation was recorded before ChatGPT exploded into public awareness, and that's the only reason it's not mentioned. We will very likely come back to ChatGPT and similar AI tools in a later episode.
Guest Daniela Ford https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/people/daniela-ford
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Part 1 of 2 of our conversation with Daniela Ford about technology in the translation industry. This first part we mainly talk about CAT tools - what they are, how they work and what benefits they can bring. Part 2 to follow next week.
Please note that this conversation was recorded before ChatGPT exploded into public awareness, and that's the only reason it's not mentioned. We will in all likelihood come back to ChatGPT and similar AI tools in a later episode.
Guest Daniela Ford https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/people/daniela-ford
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com) or by searching for us on LinkedIn.
This episode we have another of our profiles of working language professionals, this time with Janet Wolckenhaar. It's a fascinating conversation that proves just how many opportunities really are out there in the language profession if you look properly. Guest Janet Wolckenhaar https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetwolckenhaar/ https://www.ciol.org.uk/member-check/profile/54249/17924 We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com) or by searching for us on LinkedIn.
Continuing with the question of specialisation, our guest this episode is Sarah Silva, also known as The Chemical Translator. How did she combine her love of chemistry and language? And just how niche should you go? Do you risk putting limitations on yourself by specialising too narrowly? (Spoiler alert: no.)
Guest Sarah Silva https://chemicaltranslator.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahsilvatranslator/ https://www.instagram.com/sarah_translates/ @ChemicalTrans on Twitter www.BusinessTranslated.com - here you can sign up to my weekly email with tips on marketing your translation business.
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We're back! And we're joined by Fiona Gray (of Grayscale Translations) to talk all things specialisation: What does she specialise in? How did she get into it? How does she communicate her specialisation? And do you even need to specialise?
Guest Website: www.grayscaletranslations.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-gray/ Twitter: @GrayscaleTR Instagram: @grayscaletranslations
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For our final episode of the season, we have another profile episode, this time speaking to Anikó Pető-Mordovski, a freelance translator and project manager. Anikó, like many freelancer translators, has had a very diverse career and seen the industry from many different angles, so she has really valuable insight to share with us.
Recorded 22/6/2021
Anikó Pető-Mordovski
https://paprikatranslations.co.uk/
@AnikoTranslates
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Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
Like many other industries, networking is incredibly important for the translation industry, and something that this episode's guest, Gabrielle Ferenczi, knows all about. She joins us to provide some tips on networking for beginners, gleaned from her years of experience, including as the organiser of the Language Professionals' Networking Event.
Recorded 4/8/2021
Gabriella Ferenczi
https://gabriellaferenczi.com/
https://languageprofessionalsnetworking.com/
@GabiFerenczi
@LanguageProfNet
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
This episode we are looking at the current state of the language industry, and we could not have a better guest to talk about that than Sarah Hickey of Nimdzi Insights. Sarah provides expert insight into current trends in the industry and what they mean for translators, like us.
Recorded 24/6/2021
Sarah Hickey
https://www.nimdzi.com/
sarah@nimdzi.com
@SarahHickeyINT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hickey-terp/
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
This episode is another of our profiles, this time of Holly-Anne Whyte, a highly experienced freelance translator who specialises in human rights, sustainable development and corporate governance.
Recorded 13/10/2020
Resources mentioned:
Holly's blog post on specialisation:
https://hollyannewhyte.blogspot.com/2019/09/grow-your-own-specialisation.html
EU resources on clear writing:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/resources-partners/translation-and-drafting-resources_en
Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, 5th edition by Joseph Williams & Joseph Bizup:
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Williams-Style-The-Basics-of-Clarity-and-Grace-5th-Edition/PGM229529.html
Holly-Anne Whyte
https://whytelanguageservices.com/en/home
holly.anne@whytelanguageservices.com
@HollyAnneWhyte
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
Dr Elsa Huertas Barros joins us to take a more in-depth look at what it takes to be a translator using translation competence models. We look at competences that you can probably guess, like language skills, along with others that you might not have considered, and discuss the benefits of applying these models to translation practice, both in and beyond a university setting.
Recorded 23/4/2021
Elsa Huertas Barros
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/huertas-barros-elsa
Evaluation in the Acquisition of Translation Competence (EACT)
Towards a European Framework of Reference for Translation (EFFORT)
pglanguages@westminster.ac.uk
@wminlanguages
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
Our guest for this episode is Ann Brooks, the Professional Development Officer of the ITI, who joins us to talk about professionalism. What does it mean to be a professional in the translation industry, and why does it matter? How does the ITI promote professional standards, both of individuals and the industry as a whole?
Recorded 19/4/2021
Ann Brooks
https://www.iti.org.uk/discover.html
professionaldevelopment@iti.org.uk
@ITIUK
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
In the first of our episodes profiling professionals working in the translation industry, we are talking to Kai Bradbury. They work as a Language Manager for a multinational language services provider and join us to talk about their career path.
Recorded 22/4/2021
Kai Bradbury
https://www.supertext.de/
kai@supertext.de
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Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
This episode we speak to Jacqui Flint, who is the Membership Manager of the ITI. We are talking about another qualification, the ITI's qualified member status, but also about the benefits of joining the ITI more generally.
Recorded 8/10/2020
Guest
Jacqui Flint
membership@iti.org.uk
https://www.iti.org.uk/membership.html
@ITIUK
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)
Our guest for this inaugural episode is Dr Lindsay Bywood, who is joining us to talk about translation master's degrees as a way into the industry. What can a master's teach you, and what can't it teach you? Who is a master's for? How do you get the most out of your master's degree?
Recorded 5/10/2020
Guest
Dr Lindsay Bywood
@LindsayBywood
University of Westminster
pglanguages@westminster.ac.uk
@wminlanguages
You can find out about the University of Westminster's Master's courses here:
Specialised Translation
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/languages-courses/2022-23/september/full-time/specialised-translation-ma
Translation and Interpreting
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/languages-courses/2022-23/september/full-time/translation-and-interpreting-ma
We'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for topics! You can reach us on Twitter (@S2TPodcast) or by email (s2tpodcast@gmail.com).
Hosts
David Stockings (@DStranslation)
Hannah Lawrence (@HLtranslation)
Nicholas Nicou (@NicholasNicou)