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Maintaining your second language
Whether you're someone who works with languages every day or who only uses them from time to time, language is a skill, like any other,...
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Feb 283 min read
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An introduction to in-person events for translators
Many translators spend most of their time working alone, and even those of us who are lucky enough to work as part of a team can...
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Feb 213 min read
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Translation? That's interesting. How did you get into that?
Studying languages can take you anywhere, from teaching future generations of linguists to interpreting at the United Nations. But...
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Feb 144 min read
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From the office to the classroom – taking part in outreach events as a language professional
Emma recently had the pleasure of spending an afternoon at the University of Essex speaking to students of translation and interpreting...
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Jan 312 min read
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Planning a trip to France? Have you considered stopping at a 'village étape'?
The warm days of summer may still be some months away, but we don't think there's ever a bad time to be dreaming of a trip to France. In...
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Jan 243 min read
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Never stop learning – the importance of continuing professional development for language professionals
Whether you’re starting 2025 with your professional diary fully booked, or one of your resolutions is to develop your business further,...
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Jan 203 min read
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What value does a tutor add to your child’s language learning?
Did you know that as well as being translators, our team also boasts a range of additional skills? One of these is language teaching and,...
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Jan 103 min read
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Distance Learning Journal - Part 2
As she goes into the second term of her part-time degree course in law, Charlotte is back with a quick update on her experiences as a...
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Jan 31 min read
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Adding another string to your bow - a translator's experience of training to be a copyeditor
As translators, we are also, by assumption, editors and proofreaders. Many translators get their foot in the door of the translation...
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Dec 18, 20244 min read
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Specialisms in Translation: An Introduction to Patent Translation
Our team of patent translators at Priory Translations has been working with intellectual property documents since the company was founded...
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Dec 13, 20243 min read
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What do translators do all day? A peep into our translation business
On the surface, running a translation company is simple: a group of translators take a document, translate the words and produce a final...
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Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Distance Learning Journal - Part 1
In our new ongoing series of blog posts, Charlotte, who has just started a part-time distance learning degree in law, is going to...
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Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Planning a successful work experience placement
In our final blog post about work experience for students in the language services industry, we look at how companies and participants...
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Nov 11, 20243 min read
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Why work experience placements matter in the translation industry
In our first blog post about work experience placements in the language services industry, we looked at five ways in which students ...
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Why choose a work experience placement with a language services company?
Over the summer, Priory Translations were thrilled to host Loretta, who was in the final stages of an MA in Translation Studies at Durham...
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Oct 22, 20243 min read
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Thrive 2024 - ATC Unconference - Birmingham 26-27 September 2024
Priory Translations has recently become a member of the Association of Translation Companies, and in September Emma had the pleasure of...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read
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Priory Translations marks International Translation Day!
30 September is International Translation Day and its theme in 2024, as chosen by the International Federation of Translators, is...
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Sep 30, 20242 min read
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Good Business Charter accreditation celebrates our commitment to ethical business practices
We are proud to announce that Priory Translations has achieved Good Business Charter (GBC) accreditation! What is the Good Business...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read
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