Summer Placement Diaries

Marine’s Summer Placemet with Unbabel . On September 1st, when the beauty of knowledge is celebrated in many countries, I initiated an enriching journey at Unbabel. The placement was constrained to a one-month period, which equals to a longer span in terms of the knowledge and experience gained.    As the name of the company implies, it endeavours to “unbabel” […]

Summer Placement Diaries

Rea’s Summer Placement at Sofita . My first-year summer internship took place in partnership with Sofia-based Sofita Translation agency. Having already interacted with the company as a client when I needed documents translating into Bulgarian to enrol at New Bulgarian University, and given that the placement coordinator for Sofita also happened to be one of my dissertation supervisors and had […]

Summer Placement Diaries

Polina’s Summer Placement at Mitra . For me EMTTI is the most holistic program available at the moment. It lets you consider your interests and chances. You get an opportunity to try a bit of everything and pick an area of specialisation. You think it’s only about translating? Ha! During our UMA curriculum we tried a wide variety of things. […]

Summer Placement Diaries

Nadia’s Summer Placement at Mitra . My placement at Mitra Translations, in Sofia (Bulgaria) has started on the 1st of September 2020 and it will last approximately 160 hours over a one month period, which equates to almost four full-time working weeks. As required, part of placement is conducted online and part onsite. I was offered the possibility to undertake […]