Philippa Hammond is a French, Spanish and Portuguese to English freelance translator based in London. She has an MA in Translation and Linguistics from the University of Westminster and a BA(Hons) in French and Spanish from Cardiff University, and worked in-house for several years before going freelance. Philippa maintains a professional blog, is editor of [...]
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They released the final Harry Potter book in Spanish at 18.30 this evening… I was down at a bookstore in the Plaza de la Merced to enjoy the show
Here’s the link back to the post I wrote on Harry Potter In Translation last year. And if you need a reminder of what it’s [...]
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Harry Potter,
literary translation,
literature,
Spanish
I spent a lot of time interpreting between healthcare professionals and sick teenagers while I was in Peru, and was delighted by one of the doctors who took the time to carefully and calmly explain everything to his patients in excellent, formal English. But it was so hard to keep a straight face in that [...]
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Spanish