Tuesday, 21 March at 17.00-19.00 at the University of Helsinki, Kielikeskus, room 205, Fabianinkatu 26, Helsinki How can we navigate gendered language while translating? How can we edit a text to make it more gender-inclusive? Come find out about the theory and practice of gender in language with us! Translator Anna Merikallio and editor Meri …
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Journalisti.fi, the online version of the professional Finnish journalism periodical, published an article last month about the translation journalists are forced to do in their work. The context is the vast amount of English-language sources Finnish journalists use every day and the occasional unidiomatic ways journalists render foreign languages in Finnish. The article’s headline asked: …
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The Price is Right marketing workshop, Helsinki, 8 April 2020
The panel, held at Finnbrit Language Centre, on 21 October 2019, was designed to help both those starting out and support more experienced freelancers and business owners and was very well attended. Four language professionals with different business styles and operations presented their solutions and answered questions: NEaT members Virve Juhola of Cape Context, Alice …
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