Hi PLDeiros! In honor of this date and our profession, here are a couple messages on what it means to be a translator for some of our members, using 3 of our working languages/variants (Brazilian Portuguese, English and European Portuguese). Also, as our Administrator (Julia Pedro) reminds us, tomorrow, October 1st, we’ll have our annual […]
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Member Spotlight – Carmen Reis
PLD MEMBER PROFILE (please send a photo) Name: Carmen Reis Where you live São Paulo, Brazil Email: carmen@sintagma.trd.br What you’re doing these days: (translator/interpreter/teacher/professor) I own a translation and interpretation business in Brazil and work as a translator, interpreter, and subtitler. Something you’re proud of: I’m proud of being trusted […]
Member Spotlight – Vanira Tavares de Souza
Name: Vanira Tavares de Souza Where you live: Brasília DF Brazil Email: vaniratsouza@gmail.com What you’re doing these days: (translator/interpreter/teacher/professor): After working as an in-house translator for 25 years, I retired from my job, but not from my profession. I used to work at a breakneck pace, with particularly tight deadlines, and […]
Member Spotlight – Elizabeth (Liz) Herron-Sweet
Name: Elizabeth (Liz) Herron-Sweet Where you live: Brooklyn, New York Email: eherronsweet@gmail.com What you’re doing these days: (translator/interpreter/teacher/professor) Working a little as a translator and interpreter but mostly taking off this year to be with my two-year-old son until he starts preschool in the fall. Something you’re proud of: […]
This & That # 18 – Vignettes of a Professional Journey by Ines Bojlesen
Xexeco, The Spectacled Bear Goes Live In this blog issue, I want to share my experience not as a translator but as a writer and author. I hope it will inspire you to write this or maybe that, whatever inspires you. Translators and interpreters have so much to tell, in many languages, to the […]
DO YOU LIKE HISTÓRIAS EM QUADRINHOS? – DIMINUTIVES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE – PART 2
DO YOU LIKE HISTÓRIAS EM QUADRINHOS? DIMINUTIVES IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE – PART 2 In Part 1 of our journey into diminutives in Brazilian Portuguese, we saw that -inho/a and -zinho/a are the most common – but not the only – suffixes to express the notion of smallness in Brazil, and that these diminutives can […]