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My colleagues and I were saddened to hear that Peter Newmark, arguably one of the most influential names in translation studies, died at the grand age of 95 earlier this month. Many of us at Rosetta have passed through the post graduate education system in recent years studying translation and/or…

Being a project manager has given me valuable experience and a set of work ethics to live by should I later decide to delve into the world of freelance translation. In a sense, working in project management for a translation company stands me in good stead to be a model…

“CV attached” “I don’t have any experience but…” “Hi! This is a translator lookin 4 a job and I found ur company on da web. Call me l8r. Bex” “Dear Vendor Manager.  I learn English since child. I very good translator from Russian and like work with you company…” Just…

I wouldn’t necessarily class myself as a seasoned traveller, but I do like to see different parts of the world when the opportunities present themselves and, hopefully, when I reach the end of my days on this earth I will have seen a lot more of it. Being able to…

As a language student it is usually the case that you have to spend a year of your university year abroad. This is so that you get a ‘real experience’ of how the language works in context, with native speakers. But, in all honesty is that really how it works…

Most people love to eat; whether you eat to live or live to eat you will no doubt have spent at least one occasion in an eating establishment. Being a big foodie myself I think I can probably boast of a culinary knowledge many of my friends don’t have (very…

A sombre health warning has to be given first. The following advice is completely unsolicited, biased, quite possibly uncalled-for, and comes from a grumpy, balding, middle-aged and somewhat hungover principal owner of a UK translation company. If taken seriously, it might therefore eliminate any trace of illusion and, possibly, enthusiasm…

The first question that people ask you when they first meet you at any sort of event, in most cases, is: what do you do for a living? When your reply is that you work in translation, their next question is often: “Oh, this is something that people actually study?”…

So you finally decide that you want to take your language skills and turn them into a career, you’ve taken a qualification in translation studies and are ready to face the unknown. Sitting through classes and talks from seasoned freelance translators you will no doubt have heard: ‘You need to…

  Thanks to the development of technology we are able to do things quicker and quicker, for example, an email can be sent across the world in an instant. Whereas, before it would have taken at least a week for an exchange of correspondence it can now be done in…