Mohammed

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Mohammed
• Where do you live?
  • Kurdistan/Iraq and England/UK
• How long have you been an interpreter or translator?
  • 12 years
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • Academic and Cultural Background
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • love to deepen my knowledge about what i want to learn about
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • meeting new people
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • I had to write a 5000 words article about translation equivalence and address the question of 'why translation equivalence is one of the most controversial topic in translation. I did not manage to do a full literature review which lead me to come to a inadequate conclusion. The great lesson i learnt is to read extensively before i jump into the conclusion.
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • Take a training vocational course in interpreting and translation before going into the industry.
• Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
  • British National Corpus
• What’s the best book you’ve read this year?
  • Theories of Translation by Jenny Williams