Life of T

Once again we are moving. This time destination is Italy. We are going back home you may say, even though, after 11 years around Europe, home is something very difficult to define. Home, in the last decade, has been the place where we were living, might it be Brussels, Barcelona, London, Ibiza, Berlin or Singapore. Home has been the place where we have found an internet connection and a power supply to work. And we have worked from everywhere. Bars, restaurants, clubs, sport centers, schools, universities, libraries, airports, seaports. My BA final thesis has been half written in Charles de Gaulle, Paris, airport and half in the Calle Pelayo Starbuck's in Barcelona. All this to say that also this time we are moving to somewhere we will consider home and Traducendo will come with us. Nomad as it was born. So, we are closing de El Palmar office (actually Irene already left, destination Granada for her), and we are about to open in Montefiascone, Viterbo, Italy. The spirit...

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...