Oh hello! New translation graduates join our team It was with great excitement that we welcomed four new graduate translators and a translation intern to our seaside office in Newquay this week. Joining us from Austria, France and Germany, our new team members are settling in nicely. Ronald Janzen has just completed his Master’s degree in
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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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AJT’s Graduate Junior Translator Scheme wins 2019 ITI Corporate Award Newquay-based translation and localisation company, AJT, has been awarded the 2019 ITI Corporate Award for their Graduate Junior Translator Scheme. Managing Director Anja Jones accepted the award at this year’s ITI Conference in Sheffield on Friday 10thMay. AJT launched the scheme in 2018, to encourage
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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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Jetting in for Spring 2019 is our new German translation intern, Philipp Joining us for the next three months, and bringing some unseasonably warm weather with him, Philipp arrives at AJT in the final year of his BA in Translation Studies in English and French at Heidelberg University. Hailing from Möckmühl in Germany, Philipp
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Deal or no deal: Five things UK businesses should be doing now to prepare for Brexit Yesterday, I attended a brilliant Future Focus event organised by Unlocking Potential. The event was centred around how to deal with disruption and manage change in business. Brexit has already disrupted the UK business landscape and will undoubtedly continue to do so
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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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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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