I like to make frequent updates, say, every 4 or 5 months. Who knows, maybe they'll even become more frequent someday. In the meantime, I translated an article from Die Zeit online recently. Here it is for your reading pleasure:
As usual, all rights remain with the rightsholder. This translation (completely unchecked :-) ) is my own, and for educational purposes, etc, etc. The original link can be found here.
Not much to report in terms of updates, really. I spoke with my Austrian friends recently who had some exciting family news. However, they're really busy and I probably only get to speak with them about as often as I've been posting here of late. My Austrian friend at work is still in Austria so my weekly practice sessions have evaportated. I did manage to get to a French meetup recently. I hope to do one French and one German meetup each month starting from this month :-) That's just for a start. I haven't committed to any other plans or new goals. I just try to listen to something in French and German every day still, although daily practice would, of course, be even better.
I hope to put up more parallel translations. I think it's a really good form of practice if I can find the time, and hopefully some of you find them helpful too. I had a vague idea of doing the British Diploma in Translation, but since it has a substantial cost just for the test it seems unlikely at this stage. In any case, I'll try to do some of the suggested technical translations either under exam conditions (2 hours) or just when I can, and see how that goes. If I could get some translation work somehow in the meantime it would be a big help. I think my only chance of doing the Diploma is to make the study fund the exam. I have an electrical engineering background so I have a pretty good understanding of the content required for technical translations. Now just to find some work somehow!
Hope all of you are going well with your language learning!
