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North West Translators' Network

North West Translators' Network

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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Member Monday presents: Dot Roberts MA AITI

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Where do you live/work? Manchester, UK. Are you mainly a translator or interpreter or both? What languages? I’m a translator and subtitler, and I translate German and Dutch into English.  What are your specialist fields? Environmental sustainability, arts/entertainment, and marketing translation – specifically blog posts and social media content.  What’s the strangest/most
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Joint Walk of the NWTN and WMG in Staffordshire on 31st July 2021

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The idea of organising a combined walk between two ITI regional groups was first developed by WMG some years ago, when it organised walks with the East Midlands Group in 2012 and the Western Regional Group in 2014. This walk with NWTN was originally planned to take place in 2020 but the rules governing large gatherings meant that fixing a date was well-nigh impossible for that year. And so,
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Wild Swim Networking Event

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5th September 2021 What is networking? Networking: A social event meeting people in your industry and gaining useful contacts. Right? Wrong! An outdoor swim isn’t something I would usually associate with networking, but I can’t think of a better way to truly get to know colleagues, than sharing a peaceful hour or two floating down the river and warming up with coffee and cake
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Summer picnic at Heaton Park – 24 July 2021

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For the NWTN's first face-to-face event of the year, we hosted a summer picnic at Heaton Park, in Manchester. Until the day before, the forecast was not promising, but the weather decided to give us a dry afternoon with some sun at the end! We spent three hours together, catching up with each other’s news and even meeting a new member we had seen only on Zoom. With conversations about
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