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Posted by Rita Maia on November 14, 2018

Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities

  I have recently taken a four-week course on multilingualism from the University of Groningen. The course is called Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities and it is available on FutureLearn. I love learning and, being a translator, this seemed like the perfect topic to add to my CPD plan. Here’s a summary of Read more…

Posted by Rita Maia on October 3, 2018

Book review: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Freelance Translator

  This Summer I finally managed to read The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Freelance Translator, by Oleg Semerikov and Simon Hodkinson. Written by established translators, this book is directed at those wishing to build a career as independent translators. Whether you are a language student or an in-house translator wondering how to make Read more…

Posted by Rita Maia on June 19, 2018

Dia das Ferramentas de Tradução

  Realizou-se no passado sábado, 16 de junho, o Dia das Ferramentas de Tradução na FCSH da UNL. A organização coube aos professores David Hardisty e Marco Neves. O evento de um dia incluiu apresentações sobre ferramentas de tradução assistida, como preparar ficheiros PDF para tradução e ainda sistemas de reconhecimento de fala. Este último Read more…

Posted by Rita Maia on April 10, 2018

O acordo ortográfico e as consoantes mudas

De todas as alterações introduzidas pelo acordo ortográfico de 1990 (AO90), a eliminação das consoantes mudas c e p será a que ficou mais presente na mente dos portugueses. Mesmo quem não estudou o novo acordo e não dá importância às alterações sabe que há palavras que perderam o c ou o p. Também é Read more…

Posted by Rita Maia on March 20, 2018

One of the most difficult words to translate

Every once in a while, I come across those lists of (what are supposed to be) untranslatable words in different languages. One can argue that everything can be translated but these are lists of terms without an equivalent in other languages. So, if confronted with the need to translate these words, we would either use Read more…

Rita Maia

Rita Maia

English and French to European Portuguese translator and localizer
for corporate communications, marketing, IT, and international development.

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