Another company I have been lucky enough to work with recently is Eurocadabra.
The Eurocadabra website offers games of skill with the chance to win ‘Lifestyle
enhancing’ prizes. Yes, the prizes really are ‘magic’ they include a dream
holiday apartment in Mallorca, sports cars, luxury watches and lots of cash
prizes. I translated the website [...]
I was part of the committee organising the International Women’s Day event
which took place here in Mallorca on the 8th of March at the Lindner Hotel. It
was a great success and an amazing experience and I would like to thank my
fellow team members for their enthusiasm and energy: Kay Newton from Kay
[...]
In March I had the pleasure to do some translation work for Ametlla+. Ametlla+
is a company made up of five Mallorcan ladies who have developed a new product
based on Mallorcan Almonds. The product, called, Ametlla+ is a condiment made
up of crushed almonds and other spices which can be added to your dishes,
[...]
Being a freelancer is a lot about collaboration; developing ongoing working
relationships with other freelancers and businesses and creating a network of
reliable contacts. I have been a freelancer for over 4 years now, and I can now
say that I have a strong network of professionals I am happy to work with on a
[...]
Durley House hotel in the centre of London, whose website was created by
Revenue Marketing, now has a full Spanish version of its website. This was
another great project I was happy to take care of and it is great to be working
more and more with businesses in the UK and further afield. I [...]
I am so excited every time a new issue of AbcMallorca magazine comes onto the
news stands!! As you may already know, I translate the magazine into Spanish,
as well as sometimes contribute content and articles. It is great to be a part
of the hardworking AbcMallorca team, who with the guidance of its tireless
[...]
Hi everyone! I have been busy keeping everyone up to date with all the
preparations for International Women’s Day over on the IWD blog. Remember
tickets are now on sale for this great event taking place in Mallorca which I
am very happy to be sponsoring with my translation services (and prices go up
on [...]
The new abcMallorca magazine is now out and available to buy at kiosks across
the island. As ever, it has been a pleasure to contribute to the magazine. I
met Margo and Juan from MSO_Architects and this edition includes an article by
me about their business and about sustainable architecture and design in
general. I [...]
Ya está a la venta el número de febrero/marzo de la revista abcMallorca. Como
siempre me ha encantado poder contribuir. Tuve la suerte de conocer a Margo y
Juan de M_SO ARCHITECTS y la revista incluye un reportaje sobre su negocio de
arquitectura y diseño sostenible. Puedes leer el reportaje aquí: AbcMallorca
feb/mar en al [...]
I recently came across the following blog post (which I am copying in here for
the sake of clarity) on a really useful translator blog:
http://translationjournal.blogspot.com/2006/04/test-translations.html Many
translation clients request free translations as a precondition for a paid
assignment. Is this a reasonable request? And if so, what is a reasonable size
of a test [...]
