I have been dancing Argentine tango for about four years, and it has taught me many lessons that apply to translation. I’m not just talking about learning and translating the song lyrics, either! Here are three important lessons that apply to both dancing tango and translating: 1. Don’t rush it. Tango requires a leader and [...]
About a year ago, I heard about Linguee. At the time, it was a search tool for a corpus of German and English texts. Unlike Google’s translated search, Linguee did not use machine translations. Every text in its corpus was translated by a human. In other words, searching for a phrase like “Articles of Incorporation” [...]
I have mentioned that in order to keep myself focused at work, I use the Pomodoro Technique and the Focus Booster timer. To be honest, however, I mostly use these techniques to focus my translation work. When I am doing administrative work, blogging, writing emails, and grading students’ papers, I usually don’t use Pomodoro Technique. [...]
Like many professionals who work from home, I always keep an eye out for ways to track and improve my productivity. As a former office worker, I know that home offices aren’t the only work environments that provide plenty of distractions … but being my own boss can sometimes make it harder to regain my [...]
