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Comic book translation “The Green Man”

Comic book translation “The Green Man”
Working with Nick Foulger, the author of this unique graphic novel “The Green Man”, was great fun! Translating a comic book is always a challenge. What can be said in a few words in English often needs a long sentence in German and I have to write a good translation using less words since each German translation has to fit into a speech bubble! ...
⇒ Comic book translation “The Green Man”

Editing and Proofreading of “No Escape”

Editing and Proofreading of “No Escape”
The original proofreading assignment turned into editing the whole book since the German author, John Koch, had been living in Canada for more than 53 years and was not familiar with changes in currently spoken German. It was a very rewarding task for me to work together with the author to arrive at the final German book translation of NO ESCAPE...
⇒ Editing and Proofreading of “No Escape”

Project Example: Wedding Speech

Project Example: Wedding Speech
The translation of this humorous Best Man’s Speech gives you a good example of common translation pitfalls. In translating this wedding speech I had to come up with creative solutions for expressing tricky English phrases and wordplays in humorous German that would have lost their meaning in a literal translation...
⇒ Project Example: Wedding Speech

Search Engine friendly Translation

Search Engine friendly Translation
Translating the website of a country house hotel in Spain was an enjoyable and challenging job. Apart from delivering an accurate and eloquently phrased non-literal translation that captures the “feel” of the source text I had to identify keywords / keyphrases in the translation picked up by German search engines...
⇒ Search Engine friendly Translation

Proofreading of Website Content

Proofreading of Website Content
This project is a very good example of why proofreading is necessary. The client had their food supplement website content translated into English by a German translation agency and wanted it proofread by me. It turned out that the translation was not up to standard due to not being translated by a native speaker...
⇒ Proofreading of Website Content