Join NWTN Chair Laurence Bisot and colleagues for an informal chat online via Zoom. For one hour during your lunch break, we’ll host a drop-in Q&A session. International Translation Day is fast approaching, so we can take this opportunity to highlight any useful free events coming up.
We can help each other by talking about our experiences - we all have tips to share!
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Stronger Together
Have you ever asked yourself WHY you are a member of a local network like the NWTN? How about reminding yourself exactly why by joining us for a one-day face-to-face workshop in Manchester, geared towards collaboration and support among colleagues?
This event is aimed at all members, whether newbies to the profession or experienced translators and interpreters. Let's explore the varied ways
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Coworking in Warrington
Join us for another Northern Affinity coworking session, this June at The Outset in Warrington. They've been undergoing some new building works with some exciting changes to the coworking space...we're hopeful that the new roof terrace might be open and the weather might even be kind to us!
The coworking space has a café with reasonably-priced breakfast and lunch goodies. The session itself
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RHS Garden Bridgewater, Salford – Private Group Visit
It's about time we put a spring back in our step and took full advantage of what's right on our doorstep, by paying a visit to the stunning RHS Garden Bridgewater in Salford!
Almost two years to the day, the garden first opened to the public. The 154-acre garden is the biggest hands-on horticultural project undertaken in Europe since planning permission was first granted in 2017. Located on
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Boost Day 2023
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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Subtitling workshop: an introduction to subtitling guidelines and Subtitle Edit
In a post-lockdown era, I’d find any excuse to enjoy a day out, let alone a day spent with fellow translators. Thus, the Northwest Translators’ Network’s subtitling workshop which I attended – with immense pleasure – on 18 June 2022, came in handy and was indeed very useful.
It was such a nice opportunity to meet new colleagues. The workshop methodology was a good balance between
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CAT Tool Clinic
CAT Tool ClinicmemoQ on Saturday 30 OctoberTrados on Sunday 31 October
As we saw at our “Overview of CAT tools” event in April, this market has long been dominated by two industry leaders: memoQ and SDL/Trados.
These tools can vastly improve our productivity but require a substantial learning effort. Plenty of training material is available on line but translators often struggle with
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Take Note! An online note-taking workshop for interpreters
A CPD session aimed at practising interpreters who are keen to improve their note-taking skills for long and short consecutive assignments.
The first part will briefly revisit the principles of note-taking commonly taught on initial interpreter training programmes, allowing space for discussion and reflection on how well these principles have served participants’ practice to date. Structured
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