Just completed a translation task on #COVID19 as a volunteer with Translators without Borders (TWB) #languagematters.

I was last a proud CAT owner in 1999… I’m hopeful that my new @sdltrados Studio 2021 will be more productive than the last one… #cattools #freelancetranslator #translation

Yay, achieved my CPD certificate for 2020-2021😊.

The suggestions of ‘Su là là’ from my sister-in-law or ‘Sue-perb Translations’ from Hayley Reynolds weren't quite the image I was hoping for when trying to decide on my freelance translation business brand that incorporated my name or areas of specialism!

Really informative presentation from Alina Cincan this morning on ‘Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Translation’ – full of tips, tricks, and tools as promised in the title! I’m off to write my personal QA checklist… #CIOL #CPD

My ITI French Network Translation Skills Mentoring Scheme with Peter Cummings MITI officially finished yesterday, although I will never finish putting Peter’s advice and suggestions into practice. #ITICommunity

I would like to present my personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Awards🏆! This week’s award goes to ITI Japanese Network's Wendy Uchimura and Tony McNicol for their article ‘Words for a time of disaster’ which made me understand a natural disaster far better than international media coverage.

My next personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Award 🏆goes to Chris Durban and @TimG_translator's article ‘Stand and deliver’ for reinforcing the benefits of translation slams for attendees like me, providing participant perspectives and also insightful observations on human nature.

It is not that difficult to #namethetranslator! From now on we will regularly share best practice examples from our Looren collection. November by Jean Prod'hom was translated by Yves Raeber and published by die brotsuppe! Retweet this if you want #translatorsonthecover! #looren

My next personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Award 🏆goes to Holly-Anne Whyte MITI MCIL CL's article 'Love story’ for actually making a difference to my social media approach. My favourite line is ‘I won’t say it will be happily ever after, though. (They do say you have to work at a relationship…)’!

My 4th personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Award 🏆 goes to @CarolineLakey’s article ‘Under New Management’ for making me eat the frog 🐸 amongst other strategies suggested in the report on two ITI_int events on time management ⌛️ and managing information 👩‍💻 (March-April 2021 p.29-30).

My next personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Award 🏆 goes to Helen Robertson's ‘The power of the portfolio’ proposing translators' skill sets should equate to ‘expertise rather than specialisation’ and we should ‘cultivate depth in at least one area but also breadth in several others’👍.

My final personal 2021 ITI Bulletin Award 🏆 goes to Oliver Dirs for the best idea 💡 for my Christmas 🎄 list 📝: 'Good Words Fast' (a new thesaurus for translators into English). I can’t wait to see if I receive this 🎁 and to put it to use when translating in 2022!

Happy New Year all! For some January cheer, I will be posting weekly translator jokes 😂. Please do share any (kind 🙏) translator jokes you may have. Apologies if you’ve heard this one before: How many translators does it take to change a lightbulb? It depends on the context.

This week’s January Joke 😂 comes courtesy of Entre les lignes Agency in Brussels and can be enjoyed by all linguists as well as just translators… or should I say all linguists, as well as translators, can enjoy this joke 🤔 🤦‍♀️.

This week’s January Joke 🤣 comes courtesy of Zingword and I just love it! I can’t resist a play on words. It got me thinking how could this joke be translated into my 2nd language, French? ... I'm still thinking🤔💭...

Here is my last translator joke 🤣 for January. I hope they have made you smile (or beam, grin, twinkle, radiate, look amused 😉) this month.

Alliteration 🎵, source text interference ❌ and compounds versus prepositions 🔛 were just a few of the topics discussed this afternoon when our new Revision Club 📝 met for the first time. Thanks to @VoyageTranslat1 for sharing Revision Club texts 🙏.

Appel à contributions ! The next "Au courant" will be issued on 1st April, our new editorial is looking for contributions for the pause-café section (any films, books, webinars, podcasts, resources about France) and ideas for ad hoc articles. See forum for details. #ITIcommunity

Congratulations to all the winners of the ITI Awards 2023 announced yesterday! Special mention to our very own Sue Farmery, member of our committee, co-editor of our newsletter "Au courant" and winner of the award for the Best Newcomer! Félicitations Sue 👏! #ITIAwards2023