July 2, 2025 | Jane Eggers translations

Musings of a translator

An image of a pile of books. Above, it says 'Get Fit for the Future of Transcration' and below 'Nina Satller-Hovdar'.

Get Fit for the Future of Transcreation, by Nina Sattler-Hovdar

I absolutely loved Nina Sattler-Hovdar’s ‘Get Fit for the Future of Transcreation’. Here are five reasons why. If you’d like to see more videos, come and visit my YouTube

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BDÜ BW turns 75!

And then the BDÜ in Baden-Württemberg turned 75! It was a busy week. I returned from my Munich trip on the Friday, then found myself on another train on Saturday

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IT can be fun

Reinhold Nawroth is on a mission to improve the image of IT! It can be fun, he says – and he certainly went a long way towards proving that last

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Networking with colleagues – Montserrat in Munich

And then I went to Munich for some networking with colleagues. The main reason for the trip was to take in some IT-related comedy* at DSLAM Nightshift with my lovely

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End of an era

It’s the end of an era! My daughter had her final ‘Abitur’ exam this morning. The Abitur is the end-of-school exam that that qualifies you for higher education. The equivalent

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Summer Blogging (Tell me more, tell me more…)

Summer Blogging – Day 1. I’ve been thinking for a while that my blog needs a bit more love. So that what I write is mine, on my own platform.