How to Translate Website Images

A short tutorial on translating the images on a website – a small, easily forgotten part of localising a site properly.

Making a WordPress Site Multilingual with Weglot

A walkthrough of turning a WordPress website multilingual with Weglot – useful for translators who want to see how website localisation tools work in practice.

Building a Multilingual Elementor Site with Polylang

A tutorial on making an Elementor website multilingual with Polylang – another practical example of the localisation tooling translators are now expected to understand.

L'approche-programme – The Programme Approach to Curriculum Design

A video introduction to the approche-programme, a way of thinking about a degree as one coherent programme rather than a stack of separate courses – a useful lens for anyone redesigning a translation curriculum.

Watch: a new approach to curriculum

COVID-19 and the Global Education Emergency: Planning for Recovery

A talk on how education systems can plan for recovery after the COVID-19 emergency – worth a look for anyone rethinking programme delivery after the pandemic.

Teacher Reflection in Action

A video on reflection-in-action: how a teacher reads and responds to learners and the whole classroom environment while teaching, not just afterwards.

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Tools and Resources for Translation and Terminology

A short, practical list: how to build a term base in Memsource, plus a handful of dictionaries and resources I point students to for translation, terminology and interpreting.

Building Terminology with Memsource

1. How to download the Memsource app to your mobile device: https://help.memsource.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004017132
2. How to create a term base and add or import terminology files (video inside the article): https://help.memsource.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001725111-Lesson-3-How-to-Create-and-Use-Term-Bases

Resources for Translation, Terminology and Interpreting

• Lexicool: Arabic dictionaries and translation resources
• Glosbe multilingual dictionary
• Microsoft Language Portal terminology search

Tips for Freelance Translators

• Thoughts on Translation

Acronyms

• Acronym Finder

Translating a Dialect Video Script: Raja Meziane's 'Allo le Système'

This English-subtitled freestyle by Raja Meziane is a good test case for the challenges of translating dialect in a video script or caption – rhythm, register and slang all have to survive the move.

كتب في علم الترجمة – Books on Translation Studies (Translators' Archive)

A curated archive of books on translation studies, in Arabic – a handy reading list for students and colleagues working in Arabic.

كتب في علم الترجمة – أرشيف المترجمين

Translating Europe Forum 2017: Booklet

The booklet from the European Commission's Translating Europe Forum 2017 – a useful snapshot of what the profession and the training institutions in Europe were discussing that year.

Download the booklet (PDF)

المترجم المحترف مع د. عبدالله العازمي – The Professional Translator with Dr Abdullah Al-Azmi

An Arabic-language conversation with Dr Abdullah Al-Azmi on what it takes to be a professional translator.

Introduction au cours TRA1061 : Traduction économique et financière – Introduction to Economic and Financial Translation

The introductory video for TRA1061, a course in economic and financial translation – a good example of how a specialised translation course can be framed for students from day one.

Interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies

A recorded lecture from the University of Geneva on interdisciplinarity – a theme that runs through everything we do in translation studies, which borrows from linguistics, education, cognitive science and beyond.

Corpus Research in Translation Studies, Continued

The second part of a University of Geneva lecture on corpus research – the continuation of the session shared in the previous post.

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Corpus Research in Translation Studies

A University of Geneva lecture on corpus research and what corpora can do for translators and translation researchers.

Tessa Woodward: Is There Still a Role for Translation in Language Teaching?

In this interview clip, Tessa Woodward asks whether translation still has a place in the language classroom – a question that keeps resurfacing in translator education too.

Guy Cook on Translation

Guy Cook makes the case for bringing translation back into language teaching – worth watching alongside the Tessa Woodward interview.

The Big Picture View on the Translation Industry

A big-picture overview of the translation industry – useful context for students who need to see the market they are training for.

Dark Ages, Time for Light – عصور الظلام أزمنة للنور

A companion piece to the previous video: the same period, the same story of knowledge moving East to West through scholarship and translation.

Setting Up as a Freelance Translator

A practical talk on setting up as a freelance translator – the kind of career guidance our graduates rarely get inside the curriculum.