Life of T

It’s summer, at least in the northern hemisphere, and you are probably sun tanning on the beach, while here at Traducendo we work! But it’s ok. It’s ok because we can take this chance to talk about something that we love and now you will have the time to listen to us about it. Let’s talk about Europe. Europe for us is the next frontier of the human race, is 28 countries coming, step by step, together in order to create something bigger. It’s a monument to peace, friendship, brotherhood (and sisterhood to be fair). We believe in a continent-state able to absorb all the characteristics of each of the countries composing it and in the same time keep all the diversities alive. Europe is a different answer to globalization. That’s why we suffer so much seeing the bad turn things have taken here around EU. With this post we call to all Europeans and to all people around the world interested in the EU project to stand up and rise and say that EU should still be a flag for...

Traducendo Ltd is the idea of 2 people: me and Irene (Irene is the one with no beard). We are both translators, I guess. At least we can accept this definition. Personally, I have always studied foreign languages. My hippy parents were convinced (lucky me!) that if their child studied a foreign language from the age of 3 he would became smarter. I don’t think I managed with the smartness, however, I was able to understand what they were talking about when they spoke English between each other not to let me   understand. At 12, I also started to study French. Apparently they realised that with English only I didn’t become smart enough. I have always been a poor student, a lazy one, one of those feeling sooooo   cool for   not doing the homework, you know, the one making jokes all the time disturbing during the lessons, the one who   spent more time hitting on girls and arranging his weekends   rather than listening to the teacher. I had a lot of fu...

Translators' life is not that cool, you know? People think that we just stay home, working whenever we feel like, wear our pj until 6 pm and able to take breaks at any moment. Reality is much different. Much, much different. First of all the basics. There are 2 different types (at least) of translators: freelancers and employed. None of them is really happy.... Employed translators works in an office, usually a scary open space, together with the other employees of the company and, what's scarier, with the other translators of the company. If you think that 2 angry girls are scary, it's just because you have never seen 2 frustrated translators together, even worse if they translate the same language. Anyway, apart from this, employed translators life is not that bad. I mean, yes, they mostly translate super boring and repetitive stuff, they are obliged to stick to office working hours, they need to get off the bed even if outside is cold. But hey, that's wh...