by Alejandra Ram\u00edrez Olvera<\/p>\n
Crisis\u2014or a miracle, depending on how you see it\u2014is what got me into the world of AVT. Financial, emotional, and existential crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2008, as a recent college graduate with more questions than answers and the equivalent of a Summa Cum Laude in my pocket but completely burned out, I set out to find a job amid a global economic crisis. With no desire to work as a visual communicator for the rest of my life (see burn out), I sought something that\u2019d pay the bills and take me far away (geographically too, hopefully) from my former life.<\/span><\/p>\n Cue the newspaper ad asking for people interested in languages and translation and movies and TV to apply for an apprenticeship.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, these were different times, and the advertiser was no big, fancy company, but a single freelance AV translator in need of someone to whom to delegate; a generous colleague eager to show a stranger\u2014with the right skills and traits\u2014the ropes of the dubbing-for-translation world.<\/span><\/p>\n I had already answered a similar ad (with disastrous results) but still went to the interview. Such was my desperation\u2014and self-assurance around my command of the English language and my mother tongue. My sensei and I immediately clicked. They gave me a crash course in translation for dubbing (back then there were next to no educational opportunities to learn the trade) and plenty of chances to practice my newfound skills, assertively correcting my mistakes and constantly praising my \u201cinnate abilities\u201d (their words, not mine). Eventually, when they thought I was ready, they recommended me to a dubbing studio.<\/span><\/p>\n We didn\u2019t tell them I was a newbie. It was time to prove myself. And I guess I did: 14 years later, after a stint living and studying in Scandinavia, another crisis, a certificate in AVT plus many standalone courses, I still translate and adapt for dubbing. I\u2019ve even had the chance to close the circle, teaching that which I once learned from this incredibly giving, positive and supportive human being who believed in me and redirected my life.<\/span><\/p>\n So yeah\u2026 newspaper ad, word-of-mouth, a fair amount of trauma and more than a sprinkle of miraculous light \u2014doused in bilingual education <\/span>I received throughout life\u2014 got me to where I am.<\/span><\/p>\n by Alejandra Ram\u00edrez Olvera Crisis\u2014or a miracle, depending on how you see it\u2014is what got me into the world of AVT. Financial, emotional, and existential crisis. In 2008, as a recent college graduate with more questions than answers and the equivalent of a Summa Cum Laude in my pocket but completely burned out, I set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,550],"tags":[265,20,551,42,552],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlejandra Ram\u00edrez Olvera<\/span> began her professional life as a designer <\/span>and visual <\/span>communicator <\/span>rekindling her <\/span>love for words <\/span>and translation <\/span>later in life. <\/span>With a specialty <\/span>in AVT she has, <\/span>little by little, also immersed herself in the translation of traditional literary texts. She is based in Mexico City and a member of the Mexican Translators Organization (OMT), serves on the board of the Mexican Literary Translators Association (Ametli) and, since 2020, is an expert SV>ES and DA>ES translator (perita) as appointed by Mexico\u2019s Council of the Federal Judiciary. <\/span>Contact: <\/span>info@lexolvera.com<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"