JSA Launches Translator Registration Scheme

Earlier this year, the Japanese Standards Association — the custodian of the Japanese Industrial Standards or JIS — caused something of a stir in the translation community when it announced the launch of a new translator registration scheme in connection with ISO 17100 … [read more]

ITI LRG Transcreation Workshop

The University of Westminster is on Regent Street, just a stone’s throw from the BBC Broadcasting House to the north and Oxford Circus tube station to the south, where a throng of people exit to the point at which this famous high street meets another magnet for shoppers, Oxford Street. It was a November evening, at the start of the Christmas shopping season, and the area was heaving. An appropriate location then, I suppose, for a workshop on transcreation organised by the ITI London Regional Group, which promised to be all about the world of advertising. There were certainly plenty outside […]

Happy New Year

To all my clients, colleagues, friends and followers – wishing you all the very best for a prosperous new year! 旧年中は大変お世話になりました。今年もよろしくお願いします。

Japan Association of Conference Interpreters

*** Updated 10 June 2015: Website added *** 2015年4月1日に、日本会議通訳者協会(Japan Association of Conference Interpreters / JACI)という新組織が発足します。プロ会員の資格審査があるのが特徴で、通訳者の社会的地位の向上を目指します。イベントもいろいろ企画していくそうですが、その第一弾として5月16日にはセミナーが開催されます。

I’ll be at IJET-26 – will you?

If you are thinking about attending IJET-26 York, the early-bird discounts are still available — but only until Tuesday 31 March. The Zenyasai (pre-conference knees-up) tickets are selling out fast too…