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Olympic Vocabulary - Diving

Olympic Vocabulary - Diving

In the past 2 years, I have had quite a few chances to interpret for Irish Olympic teams during their visits here in Fukuroi during their practices as well as exchange events with the local community, mainly the judo team, the swimming team and the diving team. Unfortunately, before this,

Style Guides

It’s been pretty quiet in my office lately, so I’m taking this opportunity to redo the style guide that I have been using for translating the monthly newsletter. I hope I can expand this style guide to be used for all the Japanese -> English translations our office

My Translation Process

My Translation Process

In university, I studied literary translation (German and Japanese), scientific translation (Japanese) and economic translation (Japanese). But more important than learning vocabulary and terminology, I learned translation methodology. Here’s my own method that I've put together from what I learned in university and my own experience broken down step