Kai finished a degree in German Literature just before the Brexit referendum took place, and promptly fled to Europe to embark on a career in translation. After two years spent brushing up on Schwyzerdütsch at Supertext Zurich, they transferred to Berlin to indulge a fondness for currywurst and terrifying avant-garde performance art.
Here are this year’s reading recs from the Supertext team for Women in Translation Month.
Subtitles make movies accessible to an international audience. And yet they’re often inaccurate or incomplete. We explain why that’s no bad thing – with the help of Korean smash hit Parasite.
The Supertext team gives its reading recommendations for Women in Translation Month 2018
🏰 👨 und andere Experimente im Bereich der Linguistik
Haben Sie sich geschworen, 2018 endlich eine neue Sprachen zu lernen? Ob Sie sich gerade mit der arabischen Schrift herumschlagen oder versuchen, zu verstehen, warum man im Französischen für neunzig wörtlich übersetzt “vier-zwanzig-zehn” sagt – wir geben Ihnen ein paar selbstgeprüfte Super-Tipps, die dieses Vorhaben zum Kinderspiel machen.
Have you vowed that 2018 is the year you’ll finally learn another language? Whether you’re wrestling with Arabic script or practising your German ‘der, die, das’, here are a few Supertext-approved tips to make the whole experience less intimidating.
Last year’s Translating Europe Forum found cause for cheer amid the advance of automation, and the 2017 edition of the conference was equally lively.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Women in Translation Month!
Profanity around the world.
And what that’s got to do with turnips and maidens.
Beyond Esperanto
🏰 👨 and other linguistic experiments
Warum es trotz maschineller Übersetzung noch den Menschen braucht.
Why machine translation doesn’t mean the end of the industry.
The dust is now settling on the UK’s shock decision to leave the EU. But what are the effects on the language industry?
How a bout of flu and a political crisis brought me to Supertext.
