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
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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Wild Swim Networking Event
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
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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Overview of CAT Tools event report
Overview of CAT Tools event presented on Zoom by Silvia Terribile, on 17 April 2021.
This event, which was attended by a sufficient number of members to generate a very lively discussion, was hosted by Silvia, who is a postgraduate researcher at Manchester University. She firstly explained the key features and advantages of the various CAT tools, some of which we were given an
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A morning of exploration – Creative Writing Workshop on 27 March 2021
Write what you know – says the old adage. I would be amiss if I didn’t remind everyone, perhaps somewhat coquettishly, that we ourselves – the freelance linguist bunch – make for a pretty graceful subject matter. We all hail from different parts of the globe and represent rich and varied cultures. It is truly captivating to observe what happens if a group of linguists sit down together for a
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Student Q&A: in conversation with the University of Manchester
On 3 March 2021, a team of NWTN members hosted a panel to students of the MA Translation and Interpreting Studies programme at the University of Manchester. Each member discussed their own career paths and translation areas, how they came to join the NWTN, and provided some tips and tricks for students wanting to get started in the translation industry. My name is Maddy O’Hara, and I was one of
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Recap of our Wednesday Working Lunch chat sessions
In this blog post, Deborah Borderiau recaps the NWTN's weekly Working Lunch chats. If you want to find out what to expect, keep an eye on the NWTN's social media channels for the theme each week and join us here.
What could be nicer during these gloomy times of the Covid pandemic than a weekly chat session with our NWTN colleagues? It’s great to see smiling faces and have an informal
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