Practical Statistics in English

Dear NEaT follower: if you are not yet a member, now is an excellent time to join!

Below is an announcement for a seminar to be held at the Language Centre at the University of Helsinki, and if you are a NEaT member, even though you do not work at the university, you may also attend this seminar. The seminar will be taught by our own Stephen Stalter, based on what he learned from the METM 2014. See the invitation text below.

Practical Statistics in English

We would like to invite you to the upcoming Language Services seminar Practical Statistics in English. Stephen Stalter will guide us through the basics of understanding statistics and common statistical models with the goal of supporting the language skills of revisors and translators working in English.

The seminar will take place on 19 March, 4-6 pm in room 405 of the Language Centre at Fabianinkatu 26.

The seminar is based on one given at the Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2014. MET is an organization based in southern Europe offering further education to editors and translators.

To register for the seminar, please go tohttps://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/58524/lomake.html and leave your name and email. The deadline for registration is 16 March.

Thanks for a great 2014!

To NEaT members,

Thank you all for your participation in NEaT activities in 2014, and I hope to see you again and often in 2015.

In 2014 we legally registered Nordic Editors and Translators with twenty founding members. We formed a professional standards committee and a committee to build the website and other media (both of which are still open for members to join). The website is up at www.nordicedit.fi, and we have a presence on Facebook and Twitter. NEaT cooperated with SKTL (Suomen kääntäjien ja tulkkien liitto) to teach a seminar, and we had our first end of the year Christmas celebration with a lecture from Andrew Chesterman, who is now our first honorary member.

Last year was a busy year with much organization work behind the scenes, and now that we have become a registered organization, we have much work to do next year to make this group what we envision it to be. NEaT will become what the members build it to be. We need volunteers to teach seminars, to plan cooperation with other organizations, to suggest and run activities and meetups,  to write content for the website, and to serve on committees, in short, to help build an organization.

Let me know if you can help. I am looking forward to a wonderful and busy 2015.

Yours,
Julie Uusinarkaus
NEaT Chair