Spring-clean your communications
Many of us feel the urge to get our house in order in the spring. It’s a good idea to do the same in international corporate communications. Time to spruce up your multilingual messaging!
Season’s Greetings
Klein Wolf Peters wishes everyone a merry Christmas!
Tales of Language Service Past
How has the career of a translator/editor changed over the years with the rise of the internet and social media? Our colleague Kristin Fehlauer takes a look back at what a long, strange journey it’s been.
Do corporate communications need the human touch?
AI is on everyone’s lips, but what does that mean for all the creative people who work to translate, edit, and copywrite corporate communications?
The wonderful world of proofreading
Proofreading, copy editing, editing: it’s not easy or clear how to tell these terms apart. This post discusses what to watch out for in proofreading assignments and how we at Klein Wolf Peters go about achieving top results.
WE ARE WORDSMITHS: GERFRIED AMBROSCH
To get the blog ball rolling in 2023, we put a few questions to a new colleague in our team of translators into English, Gerfried Ambrosch, who joined us last year.
The curse of knowledge
The inability to imagine what it is like for someone else not to know something we know can seriously impair our capacity to communicate. How can we become more empathic communicators? How can we lift the curse of knowledge?
Who wouldn’t want a job like this?
In this blog, Kristin Fehlauer reflects on how the translation profession has changed over the course of her career. A fitting time to be thinking about the industry in general, as Klein Wolf Peters looks to grow its English team.
A fresh perspective: Why read aloud?
Our society’s doctors, educators and scientists are constantly extolling the virtues of reading aloud to children. But are children the only ones who stand to benefit? A slightly different take on reading aloud.
The books of our youth
In honour of #WorldKidLitMonth, a month to celebrate (translated) world literature for kids and teens, we at Klein Wolf Peters took a few moments to reminisce about our own favourite stories for young people.
We are wordsmiths: Solveig Rose-Mollard
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Colin Rae
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Julia Harwardt
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Maria Wolf
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Kristin Fehlauer
It’s been a good 18 months since we last conducted short interviews with our team at Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year), so we thought we’d ask ourselves some more questions now in an attempt to return to some semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Ronald Erlandsson-Klein
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Jess Crutchley
It’s been a good 18 months since we last conducted short interviews with our team at Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year), so we thought we’d ask ourselves some more questions now in an attempt to return to some semblance of normality.
We are wordsmiths: Richard Peters
It’s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). Time for some questions to help us return to a semblance of normality.
Witnessing evolution
In language as in nature, evolution tends to be a slow process. But change can come rapidly: witness the coronavirus pandemic, and how we’re all talking about Covid-19.
A fresh start made easy
Solveig Rose-Mollard joined Klein Wolf Peters as a Key Account Manager in June 2020. Now that she’s settled in, we asked her to share her first impressions.
Healthy body, healthy mind: the KWP lockdown challenge
Healthy body, healthy mind: the Klein Wolf Peters team took on a fun challenge to keep their bodies active and minds alert during the coronavirus shutdown.
Behind the screen: Ronald Erlandsson-Klein
A year ago – has it been that long already? – we ran a series of short interviews with the people at the heart of Klein Wolf Peters. Now it’s time to hear from them again.
Welcome to the team, Alex!
Klein Wolf Peters is happy to announce that our English team has grown once again. We welcome Alex Miller and the communication skills and expertise she adds to our permanent team of language specialists. Now we’re even more confident we can help our customers stand out from the crowd.
Behind the screen: Jess Crutchley
A year ago – has it been that long already? – we ran a series of short interviews with the people at the heart of Klein Wolf Peters. Now it’s time to hear from them again.
Klein Wolf Peters: Going the extra mile
“Agile” and “lean” are buzzwords you hear bandied about in all kinds of business contexts. But what do they mean at Klein Wolf Peters?
Staying up to speed with electromobility
The trend towards electric cars is transforming the driving experience, but why is the team at Klein Wolf Peters so keen to learn more about the associated technologies and production processes?
One year of Klein Wolf Peters
The champagne will be flowing again today as we celebrate our first anniversary. Here, we take a look back at how far we’ve come and a look ahead to what the future holds.
Translate Better conference
An idyllic setting is always a plus when you’re about to learn something new. Here are some impressions from a conference I attended recently outside Berlin.
The importance of a good lunch
When I’ve been hard at work all morning, my body starts to protest and my mind focuses on food. But a meal is so much more than just a chance to refuel.
Explaining data protection clearly and concisely
The EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on 25 May. All companies with customers in Europe must now introduce major changes to their organisational structures, processes and established procedures – and communicate them in several languages.
So what is it that you do?
Unless you have direct experience of using a language other than your own, it’s easy to make false assumptions about what translation entails and how we translators go about our daily work. There’s a lot more to it than simply reading someone else’s text and writing it out again!
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