New German packaging law: what manufacturers need to know Are you selling goods into Germany, either in shops or online? On the 1st January 2019, the new VerpackG packaging law came into force. Any sellers, including online retailers, who bring packaged products (including padding material) onto the German market and which end up as waste with
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AJT translation calendar 2019 Over this past year, our AJT social media streams have been filled with beautiful illustrations of quirky German and French expressions. Hand-drawn by our lovely French in-house translator Alicia Pretot, the illustrations have been enjoyed by translators, language lovers and translation buyers alike – so much so, that we decided to
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Celebrating the role of the professional human translator With the advances in machine translation, AI and machine learning, we’d be forgiven for thinking that the role of the professional human translator is becoming increasingly marginalised and under threat. At the same time, as linguists and professionally trained translators, we understand the art of translation better than anyone, the
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Human, machine or hybrid: choosing the right translation type for your content With the advances in machine translation and machine learning, we are experiencing a shift in the general perception about the need for human translation. With free translations so readily available at the touch of a button, why should we even consider paying for
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Job description for English to French proofreader (in-house position) Status: Recruiting now, on-going Anja Jones Translation is a boutique translation company in Cornwall, South West England. We have a team of in-house translators and freelance translators specialising in website translation, app translation and brand translation in German, French and UK English. We work closely with Smartling Inc.,
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Job description for English to German Translator (in-house position) Status: recruiting now, on-going Anja Jones Translation is a boutique translation company in Cornwall, South West England. We are a team of in-house translators and freelance translators specialising in website translation, app translation and brand translation in German, French and UK English. We work closely with Smartling Inc., a
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Job description for English to French Translator (in-house position) Status: recruiting now, ongoing Anja Jones Translation is a boutique translation company in Cornwall, South West England. We have a team of in-house translators and freelance translators specialising in website translation, app translation and brand translation in German, French and UK English. We work closely with Smartling Inc.,
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Job description for English to German proofreader/copy editor (in-house position) Status: recruiting now, on-going Anja Jones Translation is a boutique translation company in Cornwall, South West England. We are a team of in-house translators and freelance translators specialising in website translation, app translation and brand translation in German, French and UK English. We work closely with Smartling Inc.,
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We’re delighted to introduce our next German intern, Alex Zentgraf. Originally from northern Germany, Alex will be with us until early October before returning home to start the final year of his BA in Translation Studies at Heidelberg University. Alex is a fantastic communicator and holds a whole raft of languages in his armoury –
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We’ve been joined this week by our new intern, Raphael Werner, from Northern Bavaria. In his final year of a Masters in General and Applied Linguistics from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, he’s just completed an Erasmus exchange programme at the University of Exeter, which is where he got (and very much enjoyed) his first taste of
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