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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Celebrating 37 years of the NWTN
In this special event report, NWTN Chair Laurence Bisot reflects on our big anniversary bash.Make sure you read all the way to the end for photos and videos of the evening!
The NWTN was founded in 1985, and in 2020, we decided to celebrate our 35th anniversary in style, and, at the same time, to thank Heidi Kerschl for 30 years of involvement in the Network, in varied roles on the Committee
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Creative Writing for Linguists: Unlock your creativity
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
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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CAT Tool Clinic
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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Making connections: NWTN meets potential future members at UCLan
Event report by Nadine Gunsilius & Lea Reinicke (MA Conference Interpreting at the University of Central Lancashire) following our student session over Zoom on 17 March 2021.
A Talk Full of Opportunities
For us as newcomers to the industry, this professional talk given by the NWTN was extremely insightful and provided us with a solid introduction to our future field of work. It
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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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