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Happy 30th to us!
1992-2022 At 23 years of age, I sat down at my new desk, in my new office to start my first venture. It was 8th January 1992: I had a £3K bank loan, a beaten up green moped for essential transport and a mobile phone the size of my forearm. By 8th Feb I had approx 40...
Patent Translation Q&A
I am Carys and I am currently completing an internship with the team at Patent Translations International (PTI). As part of the internship, I interviewed two of my colleagues – Charlie and Madeleine – about the work they do in translating patents and managing a patent...
Protecting Multiculturalism & Celebrating International Mother Language Day
This year’s International Mother Language Day will be held on Sunday 21st February. First celebrated in 2000, this internationally recognised UNESCO event aims to celebrate and protect all of the world’s languages. Recognising the benefits that languages and...
Best Language Apps 2020
Here is a list of our favourite language apps in 2020 (feel free to suggest any you love): Grammarly (Chrome extension or keyboard addition) – Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant which checks your spelling and grammar across documents, emails and social...
Good Translator > Google Translate – Harriet’s Opinion
There are many situations in life which encourage us to reach for the immediate assistance of Google Translate: a monolingual menu in that charming, local restaurant you discovered on holiday; a desperate attempt to give helpful directions to a tourist in your...
Covid and Translation
Translations: A sure-fire investment for the future I’m 52 years old today (… why thank you – it’s all that clean living) but, I can still recall the classroom dust motes, the smell of polish and wood, and the pain and anguish, 40 odd years ago, as I sat there,...
Simone’s Remote Translation Internship Experience During Covid-19
Hello, my name is Simone and after completing my B.A. in Translation at the University of Leipzig in Germany, I have been an intern at Aktuel Translations Group for three months. While the previous two articles on this blog mainly focused on the experience of an...
Giulia’s UK Translation Internship Experience During Covid-19
Hi, I'm Giulia and I recently completed my internship at Aktuel Translations. You already heard from another intern's struggles with Covid-19, and I'm here to give you a slightly different perspective, as our experiences had one major difference: I never got the...
Mild Fantasy & Children’s Literature
Stories that politely pretend that everything is perfectly normal when it’s clearly not. In 2015, I spent an enjoyable summer with an excellent production company (Warpline Films), quietly pottering about the British Isles making a documentary on British Fantasy -...
Christina’s Internship Experience During Covid-19
Hi, my name is Christina and I am currently an intern at Aktuel Translations. This blog entry will be about my experiences as an intern during Covid-19 and about what I’ve learnt from the internship. Before I started my internship at Aktuel, I was studying...
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