Diagnosing an issue A while ago I translated a user information document on eye drops called X. Since I didn’t want the text to be too repetitive in terms of using the product’s proper name, I asked a project manager what determiner I should use: a product, a drug or perhaps something else? After checking […]

You probably know that there’re two schools of thought on this subject: you either need to have a medical background or you become a medical translator through being persistent, through training and accruing experience. I’m the second type, but I’ve always been interested in medicine, and at school I was good at biology and chemistry. […]

Let your business flourish We all want our businesses to grow, and for this we continuously need to be expanding our client base. “Continuously” roughly means spending one day a week on marketing activities, so that with time you can work less for more. Sources of prospects can be different depending on your target which […]

Overview Participants The Translation and Localization Conference 2013, which took place on 23-24 March in Warsaw, Poland, attracted over 200 participants, majority of whom came from Poland, but also from Germany, France, Russia and the UK. Logistics The speakers were delivering their presentations in one of three conference rooms, of which in one there was […]

Slideshare presentation of the main points to consider. How to translate patient information leaflets from Maja Źróbecka, MITI

Credits: Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) Go to the ITI’s website.

In part 3 of “cover letter” writing series, I touched on differentiating by using storytelling. One other method of standing out from your competitors is by “adding value” to your clients. Why would you want to add value in the first place? Mainly because translators are seen as a homogenous group, where often providers are […]

Differentiating Once upon a time I wanted to do some reading on how to improve my marketing skills. I started with the web, but the only piece of advice I found was on “standing out” or “differentiating”. This wisdom didn’t tell me much, so I felt a bit disappointed and at that time abandoned the […]

Po książkę „Bad Pharma” autorstwa Bena Goldacre’a, lekarza, badacza i naukowca, sięgnęłam za namową koleżanki. Zależało mi na rozwoju zawodowym, a ta pozycja wydała mi się ciekawa z punktu widzenia tłumacza tekstów medycznych. Po lekturze książki wiem, że dokonałam dobrego wyboru. „Bad Pharma” pozwala przejrzeć na oczy. Powoduje szok i uczucie niedowierzania. Na pewno raz […]