It happened again! Twice in one day! First: I have been translating for many years for a lovely museum in Cologne (mostly German > English). Now I happened to hear that there is a series of events going on there where simultaneous interpreting is needed. A colleague already has this…
You just have to love DEEP AI! I asked it “Could you write a poem about someone going to the beauty fair called “Beauty Düsseldorf” (or “Beauty Dusseldorf” or “Beauty International”) and suffering because they had no good interpreter to help them translate from German into English?” The reason being…
I’ve just realised: There is apparently no term for what Pavel does best as an interpreter. After all, “consulting interpreter” usually means “an interpreter who puts together a team of interpreters and advises on event implementation”. We can do that too, but Pavel’s real strength lies in delving so deeply…
We have something to celebrate! Namely exactly 100 google ratings for our work (translating and interpreting), all oft hem five stars. This makes us two of the best-rated translators and interpreters in Düsseldorf! The hundredth rating was for an academic translation with elements of poetry translation, an exciting combination. ”…
There are so many business fairs in Düsseldorf (or Dusseldorf, or Duesseldorf) and near it where interpreting and translation are needed – the boot and the drupa in Düsseldorf, the Essen Motor Show, the gamescom in Cologne and the board game fair in Essen… Just why do I have my…
It works! I just signed a contract to translate a social science monograph from English into German – when I asked if anyone had recommended me as a translator, I learned that I was found simply by googling “translation social science”. Actually, I usually translate social science texts from German…
At a translation workshop just made me realize that I seem to have a knack for one area when it comes to translation: translating humor (or humour – actually, the latter even more than the former as I do have a thing for British humour in particular). Whether it’s puns…
Lately I have been translating more and more for museums that attach particular importance to sensitive language – for instance, the Jewish Museum and the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum) in Berlin, the postcolonially oriented RJM… I translate into English as well as into German, although sensitive translation into German is…
Nawalny’s speeches in court have appeared in my German translation! Immediately before and after that, I translated mostly poetry and songs, so I had to switch gears to be as precise as possible – without losing expressiveness. These are political speeches, not legal treatises, but every word could be legally…
Here is a request I received today: “We have an article that needs to be translated from German into English for an American scientific journal. But it is 7899 words long, and the journal has a limit of 7000 words. Is there anything you can do?” This is to say:…
