F12W Sneak Peek 1: Productivity, project management and pricing
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Welcome to the first sneak peek of The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, the course designed to support new freelance translators through the difficulty early months of their career. In this sneak peek: block 1, which is all about productivity, project management and pricing. For more information, or to register, head to:
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Announcement: The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career
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We are delighted to announce The First 12 Weeks of Your Translation Career, a miniseries of the podcast being released as a structured course to support new freelance translators through those difficult early months. For more information, or to register, head to: Sneak peeks will be posted here over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
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S3-S4 Summer holiday announcement
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S3E8 - Joachim Lépine - AI
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Our guest for this episode is Joachim Lépine, who joins us to talk about artificial intelligence (AI), and the impact it is already having – and will only continue to have – on the translation profession, and how translators can best navigate this brave new world by emphasising the value that humans bring to the translation process. Guest: Joachim (Joe) Lépine was born into a French-speaking family in Belgium and grew up in the U.S.A. before moving to Quebec in 2006. When he took his first translation course—on a whim—he knew he had found his calling. He went on to earn...
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S3E7 - Claire Shih - Translation process
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This episode we’re joined by Claire Shih, of UCL’s Centre for Translation Studies, to talk about her work on what’s going on in the translator’s mind as they work, and particularly her recent research into how translators use search engines. Guest: Claire Shih Dr Claire Shih is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at UCL’s Centre for Translation Studies and has been lecturing in the UK for more than 20 years. Her research focuses on translators’/interpreters’ behaviour, cognition and emotion. Hosts: David Stockings / Nick Nicou Hannah...
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S3E6 - Hosts - Business continuity
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As freelancers, we’re responsible for every aspect of our business at all times - including when things go wrong. Join your three regular cohosts to talk through how we plan to prevent business interruptions, and what we do when they inevitably arise. Hosts: David Stockings / Nick Nicou Hannah Lawrence / You can also follow the podcast on for updates about the show and other resources for new and prospective translators, or email us on .
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S3E5 - Katherine Capaldi & Roz Howarth - Parenting
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Parenting as a freelancer can be challenging, but also hugely rewarding. This episode we’re joined by Katherine Capaldi and Roz Howarth, who are both involved in running the , to talk about how to survive and thrive as a freelance parent. Guests: Katherine Capaldi Katherine Capaldi is a freelance translator working from French, Spanish and Portuguese into English, mainly in retail, market research and academic research. She is also the Network Co-Ordinator for the ITI Parent and Carer Network. She lives in Devon with her husband and three daughters. Roz Howarth Roz (Rosalind) Howarth...
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S3E4 - Hosts - Time management
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In this host-only episode, we’re getting into the nitty-gritty details of how we manage our schedules as freelancers so that we can make the most of our time, whilst also keeping the ‘free’ in ‘freelancing’. Hosts: David Stockings / Nick Nicou Hannah Lawrence / You can also follow the podcast on for updates about the show and other resources for new and prospective translators, or email us on .
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S3E3 - Hosts - Translation workflows
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This episode your three regular hosts get together to talk about how we manage our translation workflows and ensure that we are consistently delivering the kind of quality service that our clients expect from us. Hosts: David Stockings / Nick Nicou Hannah Lawrence / You can also follow the podcast on for updates about the show and other resources for new and prospective translators, or email us on .
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S3E2 - Ryan Bury & Olivia Cockburn - Project management
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This episode, we’re talking all things project management, primarily from an outsourcer’s perspective, and we’re joined by two excellent guests – Ryan Bury and Olivia Cockburn – to do just that. Guests: Ryan Bury Translator, project manager and team leader with over a decade of experience in the UK language services industry, now pursuing new opportunities in Montreal, Canada. Olivia Cockburn Olivia is a translator of Spanish, Latin and Portuguese into English and she has run a London-based translation business for the past 13 years. She is a full member of the Institute of...
info_outlineDr 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)
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@wminlanguages
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