Translation internship: Welcoming German MA student, Theresa We are delighted to welcome our latest German intern, Theresa Berns from Haselünne. Theresa will be with AJT right through the summer until early October, before returning to Germany to complete the second year of an MA in Translation at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germersheim.
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Back to school: inspiring the next generation of linguists It was back to school for us recently when we dropped in at Newquay Tretherras School (NTS) to chat with a group of students about using languages at work. We’d been invited in by NTS’s careers coordinator, Sara Jeffery – herself a super-keen language teacher –
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Translation internship: French Masters student Gaëlle joins AJT Joining us from Lanester on the west coast of Brittany in north west France, Gaëlle arrives with a BA in Applied Languages from the University of Nantes, and is currently in the second year of a European MA in Specialised Translation at Grenoble Alps University. She’ll
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Last week we were super happy to welcome Nadine Rieser to the ranks of the AJT German in-house team, where she’s quickly found her feet. Having recently graduated from the University of Geneva with an MA in Translation and Technologies, Nadine leaves the mountains of Switzerland behind her and is delighted to find herself translating
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Settling in very nicely as our latest French-speaking translation intern, is Julia Deville. Hailing from Brussels in Belgium, Julia will be here with us in Newquay all the way through until the Christmas break. Following on from her first degree in Translation and Interpretation at the Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes in Brussels, Julia
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This week we were delighted to welcome Christine, our new German Junior In-house Translator, to Team AJT. Hailing from the Tyrol in Austria, and armed with BAs and MAs in Translation Studies and Linguistics from the University of Innsbruck – two of each, no less – she’s fast settling in as part of our lovely
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It’s fair to say that 2018 started on a high for AJT: We have just been named Language Service Provider of the Year 2017, an industry recognition for translator excellence and outstanding contribution. The Smartling Translator Awards recognise the key roles played by language service providers (LSPs) and freelance translators which enable Smartling to provide
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Here at AJT, we live and translate by the sea. Every day we’re inspired by our relationship with the ocean, so we thought it might be fun to have a look at where some of the nautical terms found in our daily vocabulary originated. Some expressions have quite an obvious nautical connection: to know the ropes
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