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Turkey earthquakes: translating chaos and emotion…

You must have all heard about the devastation caused by the huge earthquakes in southern Turkey and northwest Syria in the early hours of Monday 6 February. Most people were asleep then. A few days after the earthquake, I was asked if over the weekend I would want to go to London and assist the BBC Panorama team who were making a documentary about it. I didn’t exactly know what the assistance required, exactly entailed as it was all being done on very short notice, but I wanted to get involved. When I arrived at the editing studios used by…

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What makes a professional and competent translator?

Why do we need to distinguish ourselves as professional translators? “Professional lawyer”, “professional teacher” or “professional accountant” — you simply don’t see such names of occupations preceded with the word professional. The “liberal professions” go back to the notion of artes liberales. Cicero and Seneca believed these pursuits were carried out by a free person and their learning was a necessity for any free Roman citizen. Occupations such as teacher, lawyer, master builder, architect, engineer and physician were described as “artes liberales” and the term centred on a social, moral and legal consideration of the activity at hand. Endeavours such as fieldwork…

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All you need to know about Turkish

I have tried to compile some useful information about the Turkish language in this article, starting with the history and then looking at the characteristics of it. First, the history… The history… Old Turkish Turkish Language goes back 5500-8500 years. It originates in Central Asia (The  oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in the Orhon, Yenisey and Talas region within the  boundaries of present day Mongolia. These were erected to Bilge Kagan (735), Kultigin (732) and vizier Tonyukuk (724-725) of Göktürk Dynasty. The Turkish of Turkey that developed in  Anatolia and across the Bosphorus in the times of …

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Is it okay to get a part-time job when you are a freelance translator?

When I first decided to become a freelance translator, I wasn’t sure where the journey would take me. I am not going to talk about how I started, in this post as I have covered how things unravelled for me from working as an archaeologist to becoming a freelance translator, here. I sent in my first test translation to an agency in 2006 while working as an official translator for the Portsmouth City Council, after working as a teacher of Turkish and bilingual teaching assistant. When they accepted my test piece, they also started sending me regular work, which was…

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  About Me – Professional English into Turkish Translator Welcome! I am a qualified and certified English into Turkish translator with over 20 years of experience in the language services industry. Whether you need certified translations for official documents or creative, culturally adapted translations for marketing campaigns, I am here to provide accurate, reliable, and professional solutions tailored…

Bosphorus Translation is here to help you communicate accurately and effectively with your audiences. I provide English to Turkish and Turkish to English translations, transcription in various formats, subtitling services for video and audio, proofreading, website localisation solutions and much more. Features: Native Turkish translator. Multiple file format support (Audio/Video Transcription). Quality assurance mechanism. Reasonable turnaround times. Benefits: Accurately convey tone and intent in target language. Reach global Turkish audiences clearly. Preserve branding consistency throughout all forms of communication.

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