Upcoming Events

Come and join Kate Lo and Laurence Bisot for an NWTN coworking session at Whitehouse (Bruntwood) in Warrington for their “Free Workspace Wednesday” from 9.00am. The NWTN Events Team will be meeting between 10:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m. so it will be a chance to meet the team and contribute too! Free secure WiFi and tea/coffee/water are provided. Parking spaces are also provided but limited on a first-come, first-served basis. To take advantage, you’ll need to register in advance via…

The theme of this year’s Boost Day is Machine Translation and Post-Editing (MT-PE). No sector of the economy has been left untouched by the digital transformation and we in the languages sector are left wondering what our own jobs will look like in a few years’ time, as the technology grows ever more powerful. Translation Memory (TM) programs have been making our lives easier for 20 years already, but will the relentless expansion of AI, MT and PE inevitably spell…

Following the success of their workshop in Birmingham in June 2019, we are delighted to welcome published authors Ros Mendy and Alison Layland for a full day of guided creative writing. Even when translating technical documents, a translator may need to depart from the source text and employ creative skills to achieve the same impact as the original. Creativity is not confined to literary or marketing translation – it can prove a valuable tool in translating any kind of trickier…