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Show and tell: SharedCount

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, June 13, 2014 Screenshot SharedCount Where is which content being shared? Do you sometimes want to get a quick idea of how often a link has been shared online?...

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Show and tell: WolframAlpha, the answer engine

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, June 20, 2014 Screenshot WolframAlpha Do I live under a rock? How have I never heard of WolframAlpha before? This is more than a search engine. As WolframAlpha...

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Business skills for translators: online courses

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, June 27, 2014 Image source: Recite A new course in town Among translators there seems to be a growing awareness that a solid set of business skills is one...

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Show and tell: Trados shortcuts periodic table

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, July 4, 20214 Pieter Beens’ awesome periodic table of Trados shortcuts How many Trados shortcuts can you remember? Aaah, Trados and all those shortcuts. My brain...

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Summertime: Let’s give ourselves a break

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, July 12, 2014 Image source: Canva, Unsplash Vacation time has begun in my part of Germany and things are slowly winding down.  The perfect opportunity to take a...

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Show and tell: Twournal

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, July 18, 2014 Twournal Screenshot Think your tweets could fill a book? (Full disclosure: This is a summery fluff post.) Oh, the wealth of Twitter-related tweets...

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Show and tell: Tip of my tongue

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, August 1, 2014 Screenshot Tip of My Tongue It’s on the tip of my tongue We all know the feeling: There’s that word practically forming on your tongue but you...

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Show and tell: The Right Rhymes

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, August 8, 2014 Screenshot The Right Rhymes Hip-hop slang defined Translators can’t really boast a lot of street cred. But that’s fine because there are helpful...

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Man vs. machine? A conference write-up

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, August 14, 2014 FIT Congress keepsakes The 3-day whirlwind that was the FIT XXth World Congress in Berlin is now over. 1,600 attendees from all over the world...

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Show and tell: Forvo

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, August 22, 2014 Screenshot Forvo Never mispronounce a word again? Sometimes you read a word and wonder how to correctly pronounce it, be it in in a foreign...

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Free e-books for stormy autumn days

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, August 29, 2014 Image source: SplitShire Summer is slowly winding down in my neck of the woods. Time to stop enjoying cool drinks in the garden and instead curl...

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Show and tell: Coffitivity to boost your creativity

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, September 5, 2014 Screenshot Coffitivity Work in a cafe without leaving your office Except for a short field trip to work in a client’s office, I have spent the...

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#FollowFriday: Tweeps to brighten your day

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, September 12, 2014 Image source: Canva On busy days, hopping over to Twitter for a few quick bursts of something-other-than-what-I-am-working-on-right-now is a...

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Translator Resources now also in German

Image source: Unsplash Today is my blog housekeeping day. Pretty much everyone seems to be gathering in Athens for fun in the sun and some serious translator business at the IAPTI conference. I got...

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Show and tell: Writer’s diet

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, September 25, 2014   Screenshot Writer’s Diet Unflab your writing One of the many challenges of writing non-fiction texts is to make them readable by expressing...

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Show and tell: Verbix

Screenshot Verbix Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, October 17, 2014 Another site to remind us of linguistic diversity A while ago, I posted about the online tool Forvo, a pronunciation guide and...

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More books for those rainy days ahead

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, October 24, 2014 Image source: Vlado at FreeDigitalPhotos.net It’s cold and rainy here in Germany and everyone’s coming down with the first round of autumn...

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Day of Multilingual Blogging 2014

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, October 31, 2014 Image source: euonym.eu The Day of Multilingual Blogging 2014 I may write in English all the time, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel a...

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How culture can sometimes be distilled into a single word

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, November 13, 2014 Image source: euonym.eu This post is my contribution to the Day of Multilingual Blogging 2014. Readers will find the following languages:...

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10 resources to limber up your writing muscles

Posted by Sprachrausch — Else Gellinek, November 21, 2014 Image source: startupstockphotos.com Subject-matter expertise is essential, but so are writing skills. As a way of breaking out of old writing...

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