One of the 2019 winning team, Noemi Guddo, talks about their Translation Challenge project, translating into Italian and how the team worked to ensure the client got a top quality result. … [Read more...]
The gap between expectations and reality
Two of the students who entered the 2019 Translation Challenge translating English to Chinese talking about their experience and what working on a real-life project is like. They discovered there’s a lot more to a commercial translation assignment than they’d … [Read more...]
How students tackle a live project
There’s a big difference between doing a case study and working on a live assignment. Claudia Alsdorf, Senior Lecturer in German on Essex University’s language programme discusses how students approached the Translation Challenge. … [Read more...]
There’s more to University than gathering knowledge
Steve Hill - Faculty Employability Officer at Essex University talks about the benefits that the Translation Challenge gives students when they leave education and look for a job. Knowing a language (or two) is only part of the equation, real life experience gives … [Read more...]
Essex University loves the Translation Challenge!
When the language students take part on the Translation Challenge it helps them to understand the world they’ll be working in one day. Ignazia Posadinu - MA Director in Translation, Interpreting, and Subtitling at Essex University explains how the Translation … [Read more...]
Workplace wellbeing
Wellbeing has become an international buzz word. Companies consider that it’s part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to their employees, but CSR is much more than making employees feel good. CSR includes working with the local community, … [Read more...]
