Hayley Wood We will publicise a member profile every Monday here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. We are starting off with the committee members, but we hope you will all join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members. Where do you live/work? Heaton Chapel, Stockport Are you
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Impressions from the North West Translators’ Network’s Workshop/Social Saturday: Translation for Tourism So what have the Germans ever done for Manchester? Quite a lot, as a group of about a dozen NWTN members, plus-ones and fellow travellers from as far afield as Swansea, London and Chester found out in the course of a 1.5-hour guided tour on the eve of the NWTN’s Social Saturday on 22 June
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Jan Rausch We will publicise a member profile every Monday here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. We are starting off with the committee members, but we hope you will all join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members. Where do you live/work? Manchester (Chorlton). Are you mainly a translator or
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Many of us from the North West Translators’ Network are from around the globe but have chosen to live in the UK for the time being. The question is: why? The answer might be endless optimism against all odds. Excited to slip into our walking gear and enjoy a lovely summer stroll through Hollingworth Lake Country Park, we were faced with the rainy and windy weather that is the UK’s reality.
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Kate Lo Where do you live/work? I live in Monton, a leafy part of Salford. I combine working from home with organising NWTN Coworking sessions in locations including Ziferblat Edge Street, Manchester, Bruntwood office spaces at their “Free Workspace Wednesdays”, Colony Piccadilly and also Work.Life Brown Street. Are you mainly a translator or interpreter or both? What languages? I work
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Kathryn Slater We will publicise a member profile every Monday here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. We are starting off with the committee members, but we hope you will all join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members. Where do you live/work? I live in Glossop on the edge of the Peak District where I
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Katell Sevellec We will publicise a member profile every Monday here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. We are starting off with the committee members, but we hope you will all join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members. Where do you live/work? I live in Old Trafford, Manchester, and work from
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Janice Crossfield We will publicise a member profile every Monday here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. We are starting off with the committee members, but we hope you will all join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members. Where do you live/work? I live in my hometown of
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NWTN’s final Social Saturday of 2019 took a look at the digital business landscape and new financial products for self-employed translators. The event was led by Nick Rosenthal, a translator with 30 years’ experience and former ITI Chair and NWTN Committee Member. Nick began with an overview of new fintech (financial technology) solutions for business banking, bookkeeping and accounting, as
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(Pictured L-R: NWTN members Kathryn, Mike and Kirsty at the 2019 ITI Conference) As a first-time attendee and relative newcomer to the profession, having taken the plunge into freelance work in April 2017, just before the last conference, it was with slight trepidation that I hopped on the short, scenic train ride to Sheffield for the 2019 ITI Conference in May this year. Would the sessions be
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