By Rafa Lombardino and Melissa Harkin It’s that time of the year again: the ATA Annual Conference is right around the corner (October 23-26, 2019) and we will get together in Palm Springs, in sunny California, to catch up with friends and colleagues, meet new ones, network, exchange knowledge, connect with potential clients, and leave […]
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It’s International Translation Day!
The PLD team has prepared a little something to celebrate our special day. Check out the video on our YouTube channel (subtitles—CC in Portuguese). The video’s text was taken from “A father, a daughter, and translation: from a passion for languages to the importance of translators”, by Walter Paulo Sabella and Melissa Harkin. Originally […]
Member Spotlight: Elenice B. Araújo
Interview by Melissa Harkin, PLD Blog Editor Last year, Elenice presented a session at ATA59 called Gourmet Translation in Portuguese: Adding Some Flavor and Depth. I’m married to a chef-turned-translator so I know there’s a lot more to culinary translation than cookbooks and restaurant menus. A love for eating and cooking is not enough. Gastronomy […]
Golden Rules for Translators
Melissa Harkin, PLD Editor (Harkin Translations | Twitter) It was July 2018 when Translation Talk went live. The idea behind it was simple yet ingenious: every week a new translator or interpreter, nominated by peers, would tweet through the Twitter account @translationtalk (a process known as “rotation curation”) by presenting the professions of translators and […]
Portuguese Language Division (PLD) 2019 Election Results
We are pleased to announce our newly elected PLD officers: Administrator: Barbara Mendes Assistant Administrator: Melissa Harkin Their term will begin at the PLD Annual Meeting, scheduled to be held on Saturday, October 26, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm during ATA’s 60th Annual Conference (October 23-26, 2019) at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm […]
Machine Translation and the Portuguese Language
Guest post by PLD member Marsel N. de Souza Portuguese is ranked 5th among the top ten languages in terms of the number of Internet users globally, behind English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. In terms of the percentage of websites in Portuguese as a share of global websites, Portuguese holds the 7th position, behind English, […]
