Maria José Wyborn

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Maria José Wyborn
• Where do you live?
  • Cheshire, United Kingdom
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • Opportunity that rose in between jobs
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Technical knowledge
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Making something unreadable easy and pleasant to read.
• 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.
  • A document that had been translated from Japanese to English that was written with "rr" changed to "ll". The whole set up and was enclosed in "flames" - since the subject was electrical engineering, this was odd. I discussed this with the client and the whole document had to rewritten in "proper" English.
• 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?
  • To look immediately for direct clients.
• 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.
  • MemoQ
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • Do not have a best book