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Member Monday presents: Marta Cisa

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Marta Cisa Where do you live/work? I live and work in Liverpool, Merseyside. Are you a translator or interpreter or both? Which languages do you work with? I am mainly a translator from English and French into Spanish and Catalan, but I am also a DPSI-qualified interpreter. What are your specialist fields? Literary translation, linguistic services for businesses in the cosmetics,
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Rose Jenkinson 1981-2023

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Written by Roz Howarth - Rose Jenkinson (née Oakes) sadly passed away in August 2023, following a two-year battle with bowel cancer. She is survived by her husband, Russ, and her two young daughters Iris and Amy. I first met Rose in Chester at a Translators’ Powwow event organised by Michaela (Pschierer-Barnfather) at around the time of International Translation Day in 2008. The three of us
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Summer Walk 2023

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This year’s NWTN summer walk set off from the village of Arnside in Cumbria, a former fishing port on the estuary where the River Kent enters Morecambe Bay. A generously sized group of intrepid translators gathered at the glamourous meeting point of the public conveniences on the front ready to set out on a circular walk around the headland. Everyone was in high spirits despite the looming
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NTWN Tour of RHS Garden Bridgewater

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When my regional ITI network, the North West Translators' Network (NWTN), advertised a trip to the RHS Garden Bridgewater I signed up immediately. I had seen spectacular aerial pictures of the enormous walled garden on TV when the garden first opened a couple of years ago, so the opportunity to join a private group tour was too good to miss. Named after the Bridgewater Canal, which runs past
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Member Monday presents: Sandrine Grenier

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Sandrine Grenier Where do you live/work? I live and work in the Greater Bordeaux Area Are you a translator or interpreter or both? Which languages do you work with? I’m a translator. English>French is my pair. What are your specialist fields? Environment (marine and water-related fields), Life Sciences, Nautical and Education. What’s the strangest/most interesting project you’ve
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Boost Day 2023

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Thursday’s heavy snowfall made me wonder why I had booked the in-person event when I could so easily have logged in from the comfort of my home, but by Saturday the snow had almost cleared and my regret had faded by the time I arrived at the venue, which was the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. A renovated industrial brick building with quotations on the windows and a
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Knitting and Crafts Social Saturday

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“Knitting and Crafts Social Saturday: a cosy afternoon to knit, sew, fix, and chat about the translation of crafts and hobbies.” What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon? As soon as I saw the details of the event hosted by my neighbouring ITI network the NWTN, I bought my ticket and put the date in my diary. The location was the YHA at Potato Wharf in Manchester, by the side of the
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What is Expertise – Managing Imposter Syndrome 

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An in-person and online Social Saturday event I attended this event as, during my long career, I have on several occasions been called upon to translate some documents or sections of documents with which I was not as comfortable as those relating to my specialism of [re]insurance and contracts. This was particularly the case when translating larger volumes of insurance texts, which might then
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Festive social 2022

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NWTN members in their festive finery We rounded off 2022 with a fun festive social. In this post, Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather reports on what we got up to and her impressions of the event. The Festive Social was well organised with plenty of instructions and information in advance. Unlike me, who was still was wrapping the present for Secret Santa and finishing off my cake for the
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Get involved in the NWTN!

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We have two volunteering posts to fill on our Committee and Events Team, so if you've ever wanted to get involved with a professional network, share your skills and learn new ones, take a look at the job profiles below and get in touch if one sounds up your street! Communications Lead If you'd like to contribute to showcasing what the NWTN has to offer its membersexercise your copywriting
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