Headshots, volunteering, mentoring, templates, and business plans This is the second part of a long post with practical tips on how to become a freelance translator based on my experience in the UK. In the first post I discussed the more bureaucratic steps; namely, qualifications, professional associations, and the red tape involved in the process. […]
Passion, qualifications, professional associations, and red tape VibrantWords Translations has recently turned one, which has made me reflect quite a lot and look back on this incredible year, my first as a freelancer and full-time translator after a decade as a language teacher. The road has been winding, and it still is, for one year […]
When I was in my teens and early twenties I found myself happily trapped in Stephen King’s universes several times. More than ten years would pass until I laid hands on one of his books again. Following a recommendation from Corinne McKay in the podcast Speaking of Translation, I decided to give it a try, […]
After a three-month reclusion in London, the air starts to get thick and doesn’t slide down the pipes all that easily. It doesn’t matter where I live, every two or three months I need to pack and go explore, and this time I am excited to get a taste of Cornwall – a short five-day […]
Saturday morning in London, threatening lead-coloured sky, and the area outside the Parliament is still oblivious to the stream of visitors who is yet to turn up – certainly to be let down by a Big Ben scaffolded to the teeth. But who cares about the outside world on a fine day like today? Surely […]
As I toyed with the idea of starting a blog, several topics sprang to mind, but maintaining one’s language skills seemed the most appealing to open this new endeavour. The years I spent in the foreign language classroom with my adult students – as well as my own lifelong experience as a learner – have […]