WE 1. Learning new things One of the great things about translation is its sheer variety; one day you’ll be translating manuals of a washing machine and the next the website of a hotel on a dreamy island. Besides keeping boredom at bay, this multitude of subjects helps you learn a great many new things you would never have imagined existed. Naturally, if you…
What I’ve learned from yoga about professional translation
When you start practicing yoga, you are told things you find hard to believe; one of them is that you can apply things you learn about yourself on the yoga mat to your everyday life. It sounds quite ambitious, but one of the main goals of the yoga philosophy and practice is self-awareness. Even if you resist it initially, at some point you are…