Margaret Hiley: Translation and Language Editing Services

06/04/2017

A client of mine has won over a million Euros in grant funding and has sent me some wine as a thank you for translating the application. Zum Wohl!

11/01/2017

One of my favourite Christmas presents this year was this Playmobil Martin Luther, who is holding his translation of the Bible. He's now standing on my desk to inspire me as I work, although I'm quite glad I get to use a keyboard and not a quill...

30/11/2016

I stumbled across this delightful comic by Itchy Feet comics today - for anyone who, like me, has been bemused by some of the "English" words used in the German language! http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2016/11/das-wrongword.html #.WD78qlwhmO8

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17/11/2016

Today I am doing some editing, using the Rodopi style guide. Very tickled to find this as a sample entry:
Fawlty, Basil (forthcoming), ‘Translation Studies and the Specific Needs of the Hotel Industry’. To appear in Trade and Translation Quarterly.

12/11/2016

I'm so excited that I'm going to be speaking at next year's ITI conference! I'll be talking about how to build trust in your business: http://www.iti-conference.org.uk/?speaker=margaret-hiley

Margaret Hiley (MA, PhD) is a freelance German-English translator based in Rutland, England. A former university lecturer, she specialises in academic translation and language editing. Margaret is a Member of the ITI, the Translators Association and the Society of Authors.

24/10/2016

How nice! I freelanced as a language editor for the Journal of Official Statistics for five years, and when this came to an end they sent me this beautiful book to say thank you for my work.

01/06/2016

An interesting article on the shift from schools to universities in language provision here in the UK. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/31/schools-languages-universities-courses-from-scratch?CMP=share_btn_tw

Universities are offering languages such as French and German from scratch to counteract the decline of modern foreign languages at A-level

20/05/2016

For the German readers here: I really enjoyed this article about how much 18th- and 19th-century student language we still use in contemporary German! http://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/panorama/so-krass-war-ur-ur-ur-opas-jugendsprache/ar-BBtgvqR?li=BBqg6Q9&ocid=SK216DHP

Einen Kater haben, Pech, blechen, knülle, Blamage – viele deutsche Wörter stammen aus der alten Studentensprache. Nur weiß es keiner. Ein Wissenschaftler hat diese Wörter sein Leben lang erforscht.

10/05/2016

Today I've been working on a translation about (among other things) cat content on the Internet. As someone notorious for sharing pictures of my cats on social media, you can imagine I've been enjoying this! I have also been ably supervised...

04/03/2016

Some Friday giggles for you!

Nicht wahr?

08/02/2016

How many English words does it take to express one German word? I'm currently rehearsing a beautiful setting of Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd") by Franz Schubert with my choir, the Lucy Cavendish Singers. I have to keep smiling over the fact that in this German version, the phrase "the valley of the shadow of death" (7 words) is only one single word: "Todesschattental"!

01/02/2016

This made me smile today!

Achtung, baby.

16/01/2016

Got up early this morning to make a traditional Austrian apple strudel (a "Teigstrudel") for today's meeting of East Midlands translators! Yum!

17/12/2015

One of my favourite things about my office is that I am constantly being visited by small birds, who hunt for insects in the thatch. Usually they move too quickly for me to capture, but today I managed to get a photo of a little coal tit! Other visitors so far today include a sparrow, great tit and blue tit!

18/11/2015

As a translator (as with most professions, I guess), it is sometimes easy to feel that your work doesn't make much difference to the world, especially in the face of the many atrocities taking place on a daily basis. Today I am working on a text written by a renowned international law scholar on how the international community and more specifically the International Criminal Court should respond to the Paris terrorist attacks of a few days ago. I am grateful to be involved in a project that might, in however small a way, contribute to addressing these terrible events.

06/11/2015

Some weekend humour for you!

German Scrabble

13/10/2015

Hot off the press: my translation of Marcus Spangenberg's biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria, "Ludwig II: A Different Kind of King"! Available through www.pustet.de

12/10/2015

Just published: a translation of mine on the Colombian government's peace negotiations with the FARC. Such an interesting process! http://opiniojuris.org/2015/10/08/guest-post-colombia-how-much-justice-can-the-peace-take/

10/06/2015

Very pleased to have received this surprise from ITI in the post!

11/05/2015

Just published: a recent translation for the European Journal of Criminal Law on the topic of the Armenian genocide (or maybe not genocide...read the article and you'll see why this term is problematic).
http://www.ejiltalk.org/the-armenian-genocide/ -13332

No-one can reasonably argue with the clear statements made by German President Joachim Gauck in his speech on Armenia held on 23 April 2015: “one hundred years ago, hundreds of thousands of members of the Armenian people” became “the victims of planned and systematic murder”. It is probably also acc…

09/03/2015

It's great when the week starts with a translation on one of your favourite movies!

05/03/2015

After I completed my PhD, I never wanted to take another exam...but last year, I did: new blog post on my experience of the examination for qualified membership of ITI! http://www.puddingbaglane.blogspot.co.uk/

04/03/2015

Looking forward to attending a translation workshop organised by ITI's Media, Arts and Tourism network on "Best Practices in Tourism" - we'll be covering issues such as what types of text tourism translators work with most, what linguistic challenges are involved, and how to diversify into related services like copywriting and travel writing. I've not done a huge amount of tourism translations so far, so am sure to learn lots of useful things!

18/02/2015

My interview with Scott Rank of Scholarpreneur on how I became a translator is now available as a podcast! Lots of advice on how to set up a business in general and how to become a successful translator more specifically. http://thescholarpreneur.com/spp-003-lecturer-full-time-freelance-academic-translator-margaret-hiley/

This week’s guest Margaret Hiley is doing great things as a private translator. She has a useful story for any academic thinking about entering the world of business but scared because the learning curve appears too steep. Her information is highly actionable, particularly for any academic who is bi…

18/02/2015

I've been interviewed by Scholarpreneur, a site helping academics to turn their skills and qualifications into profitable ways to support themselves. A full podcast is coming soon, but you can already read a few words here: http://thescholarpreneur.com/13-academics-speak-no-hope-tenure/

It’s a situation none of us want to be. You’ve defended your dissertation, published articles, and even found a publisher for your monograph. Your research is top-notch and your reviews are glowing. But you can’t get tenure. Maybe your are adjuncting, but your department only opens up one tenure-t…

17/02/2015

Back in the Middle Ages, this is what translation looked like - a far cry from the computer-assisted translation technology and online dictionaries of today! But this translating monk still looks serene as he goes about his business. http://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?VUE_ID=1316727

06/02/2015

After a networking lull over the last months, I was properly back on the bandwagon this week: a social gathering of the ITI's East Midlands network of translators in Loughborough on Wednesday, and this morning a meeting of our local Rutland and Stamford Business network. Great to reconnect with colleagues and friends!

27/01/2015

I have just registered for the biggest UK translation event of the year: the ITI Conference! Already feeling very excited and looking forward to interesting talks and discussions and seeing colleagues! http://iti-conference.org.uk/

'Renew, Rejuvenate, Regenerate - Translating and interpreting in an evolving world' 23-25 April 2015 Hilton Newcastle Gateshead, UK The biennial ITI Conference is the biggest translation and interpreting event in the UK, attracting translators and interpreters from all over the country and beyond. W…

26/01/2015

Today's translation task: a Swiss shaman's website! This work never gets boring...