A group of people seen from behind in front of a lit window and sign saying #SayTheirNames
Monday, 27th April 2026 (17:15) at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle: screening of acclaimed new German documentary Das deutsche Volk (dir. Marcin Wierzchowski, 2025
Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/.../das-deut....
So much this.
In any profession, you have to start somewhere. You have to learn the craft. All great translators were once not very good, but they became better through practice. If the opportunity to practice goes, we'll eventually lose the great translators.
#xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐 💙📚
I have heard of people doing this through friends. I suppose it partly depends on the age and level of independence of the child? Not sure there are big schemes, perhaps some associated with colleges teaching English? There's a scheme for working on organic farms but I think that's not for children
Translation at Collected Books in Durham on 22nd April at 7:30 pm! Sophie Lewis, translator of Hélène Cixous's groundbreaking novel ANGST, talks to @ruthclarke.bsky.social collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/...
Thanks @translatorsaloud.bsky.social @tinakover.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVLR...
@itinortheast.bsky.social @ruthclarke.bsky.social @tinakover.bsky.social
All welcome to our next event!
What: Drinks and/or food
When: Wednesday 29th April, from 6.30pm
Where: the Heart of Northumberland, #Hexham #ITICommunity #xl8 #1nt
Sorting waste at my local co-working space #Müllsortierung
Under His Eye.
I have found an (appropriate) occasion to use the word 'sobriquet' in a translation! Exciting. #amchecking
Strangely soothing article.
"less a translation and more [...] a collaboration with someone you’d rather not be in collusion with" /
“I’m not entirely sure that ‘suspicion’ can characterize a structure—is there perhaps another phrase that fits better [...]?”
I hadn't seen it before, and it's great - thanks. Strangely soothing.
"less a translation and more [...] a collaboration with someone you’d rather not be in collusion with" /
“I’m not entirely sure that ‘suspicion’ can characterize a structure—is there perhaps another phrase that fits better [...]?”
Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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Looking forward to this on Monday!
Our translation slam is coming soon – the French original (source text) is now available! itinortheast.wordpress.com/events/
No knowledge of French is required, as we'll be discussing the translations into English #ITICommunity
First time I've found useful material on TikTok when researching a translation! FYI I searched the web, I don't have the app.
Merci, @manonbrilcuah.bsky.social !
Il n'y a plus qu'à traduire / Now to translate the term 'formariage'...
Automatic transcription of the day: Jean Genet des Ursins (should be Jean Juvénal des Ursins).
AI prediction? Surreal image
First video call on the French government's own platform... which thinks I'm German so gives me all the instructions in German. Did a brief double take when I realised... mais bon 🤷♀️ Tout s'est bien passé
SURVEY:
➡️Help our member Tinka Stoessel (University of Geneva) and join her study about sustainability in the interlingual subtitling of Netflix projects targeting German as the target language🙏
(Survey to be filled out in ENG/DE)
The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses.
Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
How could I forget to post *this* banger, not in English? @sarahpybus.bsky.social
Peter Fox, Alles Neu youtu.be/qdtLCfEcPL4?...
English conversation Monday, Russian Tuesday, Digital skills Tuesday, German Friday, Spanish Saturday, Games à la carte Sunday
Have you visited the Kittiwake Trust Multilingual Library yet? There are so many reasons to visit! This week's lineup:
I was aware of him through visits to Tanzania in the 90s. I have seen him in concert twice. Amazing energy (and messages)! Gone too soon
Post a banger that isn't in English #kiswahili
youtu.be/ftnccb-AOik?...
All welcome to our translation slam in Newcastle on 19 March!
Dragon of the day: Digital workflows and insufficiency technologies
The idea that aggregating all of the information on the internet leads to intelligence is being put to the test. LLMs are the perfect example of the computer science adage "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
An NYT headline reads “Federal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolis”
It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.
I know I'm late to the party, but here's a #ShoutOutForGerman! I'm glad I learned the language and think more people should be speaking it. Take that, Trump! (Thanks @annatwright.bsky.social for showing me this post #ITICommunity)
