Today’s guest post is by Hanna Sles who translates from English into Russian and Ukrainian.
You have heard the wisdom:
“To be visible online, a translator’s website should have a blog.”
“Blogging will drive more traffic to a translator’s website.”
“Why aren’t you blogging yet?”
Blogging is becoming more and more popular in the translation and localization industry.
Think about it:
Everyone knows that blogging has gained mainstream popularity among freelance translators. But if you wish to start your own blog, it can be difficult to grasp why you should.
And today’s post will convince you to start blogging in a heartbeat.
Back in February I managed to escape to London for the day to attend an 
I graduated from the University of Exeter with an MA in Translation in 2011. After submitting my dissertation, I remember feeling daunted at the prospect of starting my career as a freelance translator – how on Earth was I going to snap up my first client? It wasn’t until I started working at Amazon with colleagues who had completed MA Translation programmes at other universities that I realised how my degree gave me an advantage.
During my translation work I often come across words that the author has put in italics, quotations marks, or in italics within quotation marks. And often the way they use them throughout the text is inconsistent.
Today’s guest post is by Lucy Williams and was originally published on her own blog. As it is currently not available on her site, Lucy has kindly given me permission to reproduce two of her posts on the DipTrans on My Words for a Change since they contain valuable information for anyone thinking of taking the exam.
Today’s guest post is by Lucy Williams and was originally published on her own blog. As it is currently not available on her site, Lucy has kindly given me permission to reproduce two of her posts on the DipTrans on My Words for a Change since they contain valuable information for anyone thinking of taking the exam.
The 
Agradezco de corazón a Nikki que me haya propuesto participar en su blog como firma invitada con una reseña del máster en traducción médico-sanitaria que cursé durante el año lectivo 2012-2013. Mucho ha llovido desde que obtuve el título e imagino que algunos aspectos habrán cambiado en los últimos años. Aun así, me gustaría compartir aquí esa vivencia con todo aquel que esté interesado en cursarlo. Puesto que ya existen otras reseñas en la blogosfera que tratan las asignaturas y el funcionamiento en detalle, me centraré en otros aspectos.
It’s been over two years since I decided my bottom was going to spread no further and that it was high time I got off it and started being more active. Walking the dog (I’ve got a greyhound) just wasn’t enough to counteract the huge amount of time I was spending sitting down either at my desk or with the family on cold winter nights in front of the TV or playing board games.
Towards the end of my undergraduate degree in German and Spanish, I started looking for a masters course in translation. I’ve always been a fan of literature, but I was concerned about narrowing my prospects by choosing a Masters in Literary Translation specifically, so I was looking for a more general course with lots of opportunities to get stuck into literature. The 