Quand on est travailleur indépendant, iPro, il est primordial de savoir gérer son temps. D’être capable de bien dissocier sa vie de famille de sa vie professionnelle. Mon expérience personnelle m’amène, surprise, à constater qu’il n’y a pas de recette miracle, de modèle à suivre. L’important est vraiment de choisir la solution qui VOUS convient …
By Noah M. Mintz There is a lot of conversation around “emerging” translators—and a lot of jokes made about cocoons and metamorphosis. But the fact is that the practice of literary translation is a lonely pursuit, and the mechanisms of the publishing business are often dauntingly obscure to the uninitiated. So though the term may be …
La figura del traductor, tal y como comenta Enrique Badosa es una figura muy poco agradecida y que prácticamente vive en el anonimato, excepto algunos casos muy puntuales. Este post me gustaría dedicárselo a la figura del traductor pero me gustaría que sirviera también como reflexión sobre la importancia y la repercusión que tiene el …
Cosa succede se traducendo un testo da una lingua A a una lingua B, notiamo che il testo di partenza è fortemente condizionato anche da una terza lingua C? Come ci comportiamo? Ovviamente ogni caso è sui generis, quindi mi soffermerei su un esempio in particolare. Mi è capitato di tradurre per una ricerca parte di un libro …
Dalit literature has emerged as an integral part of a larger political movement that offers substantive and detailed protest against the entrenched system of untouchability, or the socially institutionalized system of caste-based hierarchy and discrimination, in contemporary India. It traces its modern history to the early 1970s with the foundation of a literary-activist collective called …
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A friend in Paris has sent me a recent article from an unexpected source, The New Yorker. It’s by one of their well-known staff writers Judith Thurman and its title is The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages. In what follows I will try to dispel some of the mystery. Pruned of its New Yorker chattiness, the first part …
In che modo la tecnologia sta influenzando, e per certi versi addirittura soppiantando, la cultura umanistica? E perché da mezzo utile a tutti i saperi umani sta diventando un fine? A Pordenonelegge queste domande sono state al centro del dialogo tra Lorenzo Tomasin, professore di Filologia romanza e di Storia della lingua italiana, e Juan Carlos De …
Lorenzo Tomasin: l’impronta digitale impoverisce le lingue (se non sai come affrontarla) Read More »
I am sure many of you have heard about TranslatorsCafé and possibly TermCafé. I personally have not used this platform, but it came up while reading an article on a translation magazine of recent publication, so I guess it might be helpful to some people. Have you used it? Let me know what you think. In …
Les traducteurs sont des individus intelligents, d’avides lecteurs, d’insatiables curieux, des chercheurs hors pair et des linguistes troisième dan, mais lorsqu’ils font le choix d’exercer leur métier en tant qu’indépendants il leur faut acquérir rapidement de nouvelles compétences pour créer et développer l’entreprise qui leur permettra de vivre de leurs multiples talents. Pour accélérer cet …
Poder realizar tu trabajo a través de internet tiene ventajas, pero también inconvenientes. Por desgracia, no es infrecuente leer comentarios y experiencias de compañeros que han sido víctimas de estafas, impagos y otras desgracias que afectan al bolsillo. Veamos algunos trucos y consejos para prevenir alguna de estas situaciones en la medida de lo posible. …
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