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Member Monday presents: Rowie Watkeys

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Rowie Watkeys Where do you live/work? Ilkley, near Leeds. Are you mainly a translator or interpreter or both? What languages? Translator, from French and German into English. What are your specialist fields? Marketing, fashion, food and drink (particularly wine/champagne), retail and luxury goods. What’s the strangest/most interesting project you’ve ever worked on? The most
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Member Monday presents: Michael Dutton

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Michael Dutton We publicise a member profile on Mondays here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. If you want to join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members, download the questionnaire from the Member Resources area and send it to our Comms Officers Kat and Marjolein. Where
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Member Monday presents: Lois Pearson

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Lois Pearson Where do you live/work? Clitheroe, Lancashire Are you mainly a translator or interpreter or both? What languages? Translator, German and French to English What are your specialist fields? Agriculture, horticulture and technology What’s the strangest/most interesting project you’ve ever worked on? The most interesting projects I have worked on so far have all involved
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Member Monday presents: Marc Starr

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Marc Starr We publicise a member profile on Mondays here on our website, on our Facebook page, on Twitter @NWTN_UK and on LinkedIn. If you want to join us in this opportunity to share a little about yourself with your fellow NWTN members, download the questionnaire from the Member Resources area and send it to our Comms Officers Kat and
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Creative Writing for Linguists: Unlock your creativity

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On 22 January, the NWTN held a creative writing workshop at Oppidan Social in Manchester. As the first workshop of 2022, it was lovely to be able to meet up in person with fellow NWTN members and challenge ourselves in an encouraging and supportive environment. The workshop was led by Alison Layland (MITI), a literary translator who works from German, French and Welsh, and Ros Mendy (MITI), who
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Festive Social 2021

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To mark the end of the year and to brighten up winter, we invited our members to a social meeting in Manchester at Oppidan Social, on Saturday 11th December. It was a fabulous opportunity to catch up in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, with a Christmas quiz, pass-the-parcel and a Christmas jumper competition. This face-to-face event was a great chance to finally meet some new members (including one
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What can you gain from joining a translation network?

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A Year In Review As we move forward into 2022, I realised it had been exactly a year since I became a member of the North West Translators’ Network. It was time to reflect on being a member of the NWTN and how it helped me personally. This article will look at what you can gain from joining a local or national translation network or association. I will talk through 4 key
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CAT Tool Clinic

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For Halloween weekend, the NWTN decided to help users to tackle the tricks of two monsters on the CAT Tool market: memoQ and Trados Studio. We invited Lone Beheshty, one of our members and a reputed trainer in both tools, to answer specific questions sent by attendees. It was also an excellent opportunity to review new features introduced in their new versions, memoQ 9.9 and Studio 2021. The event
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Pricing Clinic with Susie Jackson

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Dot Roberts tells us about the first NWTN CPD events following our summer break. Susie Jackson gave us the boost of confidence I think we all needed. Upon registering for this event, we each submitted questions for Susie based around pricing our services and managing the financial side of our businesses. Susie went through our questions in detail during a live webinar and gave us plenty of
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