Unprofessional Translation

Coronavirus is all the news. As its spread goes international, translation is inevitably involved. Some of the translating is no doubt ...

There are translators who do it for money (salaried or freelance); there are those who do it pro bono (for friends, relatives, NGOs, lov...

Each year at the translation school of the University of Ottawa we used to host a group of sixteen-year-old students from local secondar...

Those of you who've read the 2017 guest post on this blog by Indian translator Prabha Sridevan (see photo), and especially the severa...

Non-professional, untrained bilinguals have sometimes been called on to translate at important events and negotiations above their norma...

 The call for papers has been out for some time for the Fifth International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translatio...

It’s widely assumed that the main function of language, its raison d’être, is to express and communicate our thoughts. That may be,...