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North West Translators' Network

North West Translators' Network

NWTN Summer Walk 2019: a spot of rain, 9 walkers, 1 baby & 1 dog

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Here are some pictures from the NWTN Summer Walk on Saturday, 27th July. 9 intrepid souls, 1 baby and 1 dog braved the weather and had a very enjoyable stroll around the picturesque Hollingworth Lake near Rochdale. We encountered some llamas and enjoyed a nice and well-deserved spot of afternoon tea at Hollingworth Visitor Centre. Read more about our adventures in the upcoming NWTN Newsletter.
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NWTN wins ITI Regional Network award

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At the recent ITI Conference in Sheffield the NWTN Social Saturdays were awarded the prize for best event or initiative. The NWTN team was delighted and proud to receive this accolade from the renowned national network for translators and interpreters. NWTN member can download the NWTN submission which enabled us to win this prize on the resources page (accessible to NWTN members only). If you
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NWTN at the ITI Conference

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With an unprecedented 375 delegates the ITI Conference 2019 in Sheffield is huge success, and NWTN is well represented with 2 speakers and many members attending. Please keep an eye on @NWTN_UK for latest conference tweets and see our Facebook page. NWTN members Kathryn and Kirsty and NWTN Events Team Leader Mike Hanson proudly present their conference badges with NWTN Stickers
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The new NWTN “Dream Team”

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On Saturday 4th May 2019 the NWTN Committee and members met at the YHA Manchester for another successful NWTN AGM with a very special guest: Norbert Hermann, pictures here with NWTN Committee members, a long-standing NWTN member, former treasurer and inspiration behind the event title "Social Saturday" joined us from his new home in Portugal. He called the newly elected NWTN
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Some notes from Heidi’s travel blog: Feeding The Vegans

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By popular demand we bring you a blog entry from NWTN Chair Heidi Kerschl which appeared both in the ITI Bulletin and the NWTN Newsletter. This is just to fill space and will hopefully soon be relegated to the archives as soon as we receive your blog submissions. Start writing, NWTN! The Picos - one of the Holy Grails of motorcycling This summer, my husband, four of our
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Guest Blog by Claire Cox. Studio 2019 – should you take the plunge?

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At the end of June, I and a few other members of the focus group that had met back in March were invited back to SDL’s HQ in Maidenhead for a preview of Trados Studio 2019, due out any time now. The keenly awaited new version has been in the beta testing phase for some time now and they are just putting the finishing touches to the product before releasing in the very near future. But should you
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Guest blog by Lloyd Bingham: How to survive the Language Show

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The Language Show Live is the biggest and frankly the best exhibition in Britain for linguists. Most of all, it’s free. LS Live attracts an immense range of language-lovers, from students to teachers, translators to interpreters, careers advisors to technology developers. Most people think of an industry exhibition as rows of stalls with companies trying to flog their wares. Whilst this is true
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