Unless you have studied Law, it is rather tricky to know how to specialise in legal translation, let alone find relevant high-calibre training. Fortunately, Roehampton University’s symposium on Friday 9th January 2015 on becoming a legal translator addressed many of

I’ve been working really hard with Websites for Translators to create a website that is different. I’ve been looking at colleagues’ websites for inspiration to see how they do it, but much of the website stems from my own ideas,

The Capital Translations website contains two blogs. Click on ‘Blogs +‘ in the header bar, and you will see the Translation blog and the Business/Economy blog. The Translation blog is where you will find the major posts archived from my old website, such as

What makes up the Capital Translations logo? Firstly, the colours. One idea is to use colours from the flags of countries representing a translator’s source languages. Blue, red and green are the colours that first come to mind. Another is to

There are lots of options when it comes to creating a name for a translation business. By far the most popular choice is something associated with language, linguistics, or words. And why wouldn’t it be? This provides the business name

Capital Translations is the name of my new translation business, which will officially start operating from Cardiff on Monday 4th August. After three years as an in-house translator in the north-east of England, it’s time to fly solo and join

Translators in the City (#xl8city) is a series of articles that looks at why translators choose to work in a certain city. Since freelancers can essentially set up anywhere in the world, the series seeks to find out what individual