Bei unseren französischen Freunden gibt es zwei Jahresanfänge: das Kalenderjahr beginnt wie bei uns am 1. Januar, aber der zweite Jahresanfang ist in Frankreich vielleicht fast noch wichtiger: die Rentrée! Und davon gibt es sogar… Read More »Die #Rentrée, ein französisches Phänomen besonderer Art
Today I provide a quick tip on how I use the free Easytranscript app and an iPhone to quickly and efficiently transcribe my #copywriting interviews, for example for my #casestudies. Especially interesting for #German #copywriters… Read More »How to easily create case study interview transcripts with Easytranscript
Today I want to briefly touch upon the question what translation means to me and what I see as the major challenge while translating – which ultimately makes translation so much fun. Watch this video… Read More »What does translation mean to me?
Ich mache ja sonst immer eher gerne informative Erklärvideos, aber heute mal ein Rant (ein Stoßseufzer?), denn Frank Katzer hat gefragt: “Was ist ein Kernthema, das dich ausmacht…?” Und Gendern ist so ein Thema. Auch… Read More »Gendern auf Teufel komm raus?
When writing a case study for a client, conducting interviews is one of the most important steps to get the rich and detailed information you need for your story. Done right, these interviews contain many… Read More »How to unearth hidden gems for your case study with transcriptions
Today we are celebrating the Chinese New Year 2019, featuring the boar, pig or hog as its zodiac sign. It’s going to be a great year, bringing us good fortune, and the boar is considered… Read More »Of Pigs, Wild Boars, and Japanese Inoshishi
DeepL might be a useful tool for linguists and people who understand both the source & target language very well, but it is an accident waiting to happen when people who don’t understand both languages… Read More »DeepL’s Hidden Icebergs: Don’t Touch
In 2003 I had been living in Japan for 4 years, and I was thinking of learning the art of Acupuncture. I wanted to learn it in Japan, but before entering an acupuncture school in… Read More »The kindness of strangers
When the wall between East and West Germany fell in November 1989 I was 20 years old and had just finished high school. I had been living on the east side of the wall and… Read More »Divided by a common language