Elia’s annual Together event started in 2016 in Barcelona (you can find a detailed account of that conference in a previous article). This year’s conference took place in Athens on 22 and 23 February and focused on specialisation. It was a stimulating 2-day event with some interesting sessions organised around the key concepts of specialisation, trends and technology. All in all, an excellent opportunity to…
Land and Freedom Festival in Verroia
It was with great pleasure that we shared the political thinking of Carlos Taibo with the audience gathered at the “Land and Freedom” Festival, in Parnonas, on the 5th of August. The renowned professor’s dialogue with the public was facilitated by Anthi Kosma, Dimitris Lamprinos from ajugar.gr, Georgia Anargyrou and Dina Tyrovola from Yourtranslator, who interpreted to and from Spanish and to French and English. Local…
Translating Europe Forum: machines and minds working together at a truly European conference
by Marina Spanou Translating Europe Forum took place for the third consecutive year in Brussels, on 28-29 October, under the auspices of the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Translation. Just like last year, one of the greatest advantages of this event was its truly European character; walking through the corridors and halls during the breaks one could hear languages and accents from all over…
Yourtranslator presents its translation of Visit Syros website
On Monday, 9 May 2016, the Syros Tourist Lodgements Association presented Visit Syros, its brand-new, modern website translated and edited by Yourtranslator. The new website was presented to the members of the Association and the residents of Syros in the Conference Room of the Cyclades Chamber of Commerce by the parties that contributed to this necessary and long-awaited project. Nikos Meramveliotakis and Kostas Valsamakis from Hiremycode spoke…
Presentation of China Import Food Mall in Athens
On March 3, Yourtranslator attended the presentation of China Import Food Mall in Athens, an event organised by the Hellenic-Chinese Chamber of Commerce. China Import Food Mall owns malls in a number of central Chinese cities, which can serve as exhibition centres for Greek companies active in the export of food and beverages. This initiative is an ideal opportunity for Greek products to find their way into…
Shaping our common future: so what is our common future and how can we shape it together?
On the 31st of October, the team of Yourtranslator attended Shaping our common future, the event organised by the Panhellenic Association of Professional Translators Graduates of the Ionian University (PEEMPIP) in collaboration with FIT Europe, with the support of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation. This full-day event took place at Technopolis in Athens, bringing together professional translators from both Greece and other European countries,…
Yourtranslator.gr’s impressions from IAPTI’s 2nd International Conference
How dangerous can our continuous exposure to low quality of writing be and to what extent can machine translation really help us? How important is organisation in the life of a freelancer? Direct clients or translation agencies? Is the customer always right? How are translation rates calculated? The above-mentioned questions, along with many other questions and reflections, were addressed at IAPTI’s (International Association of…
Join us in sharing our ideas as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week!
Under the auspices of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, YourTranslator.gr has decided to celebrate its second birthday by organising a networking event in Athens, at Bartesera on Saturday, 30 November, at 7 pm. Let’s share our ideas Which company model is the right one for me? How can I find customers? What are the right ways to use social media? Let’s share our ideas, give and take…
Yourtranslator.gr in Malaysia, 5 days – more than 105 countries!
We met people from all over the world and we made dreams with them. Global Startup Youth and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit came to an end and we came back home with unique experiences and new ideas for a future filled with optimism! The GSY event, which was organised for the first time in the world in Malaysia with the initiative of Dash Dhakshinamoorthy,…
Yourtranslator’s first birthday party!
After one year of online operation, it was crucial for us to meet the team of our translators. This was the idea behind the organization of yourtranslator’s first birthday party, an event that aimed to bring all of us together to discuss about everything, but first and foremost to know each other better! It was actually one of these days that we had the…