Andrew Starr
Portsmouth's Twin Cities
At some point during 2020 wix.com updated some of the urls linking to major blogposts about twinning in Portsmouth. We have a new global...
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Andrew Starr
- Feb 25, 2018
- 4 min
About me: Voluntary work and other unpaid activities.
Text underlined in bold and blue on this blog page will take to you to relevant websites or documents. I have joined Translators Without...
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Andrew Starr
- Oct 18, 2017
- 1 min
My other blogs
I keep other blogs on this website under links which can be found on the homepage. There are some blog entries that are translation of...
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Andrew Starr
- Oct 18, 2017
- 1 min
Careers using languages
I gave a talk this morning at the Charter Academy in Portsmouth about my career using languages as part of their year 10 languages week....
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Andrew Starr
- Jun 4, 2017
- 1 min
Academia Webinars
For some months now, I have been working Academia Webinars, a company based in Germany offering webinars for translators, interpreters,...
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Andrew Starr
- Mar 9, 2017
- 1 min
Presenting at the University of Portsmouth
On Wednesday March 8th 2017, I was invited to speak about my career change and life as an entrepreneurial freelance translator at the...
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Andrew Starr
- Mar 9, 2017
- 1 min
Tour Guiding for Portsmouth News
On Thursday March 2nd I took Mark Acheson of 'The News' (Portsmouth's local newspaper) on a tour of Old Portsmouth. This tour was filmed...
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Andrew Starr
- Feb 14, 2017
- 1 min
Le village des sens
I am currently working with an independent travel agency in France. Helping them update their website in to English, the current version...
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Andrew Starr
- Jan 19, 2017
- 1 min
Twinning trip to Caen, France
I am pleased to announce that I am organising a visit to Portsmouth's twin-town of Caen in March 2017. In association with the...
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Andrew Starr
- Oct 27, 2016
- 1 min
Appearance in Ouest-France Newspaper
Last weekend (October 22nd) I appeared in an article in the Caen edition of Ouest France with Brigitte Poirier with whom I have been...
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Andrew Starr
- Oct 10, 2016
- 1 min
High definition clip now available
The France 3 TV programme is now available online in High Definition through this link
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Andrew Starr
- Sep 29, 2016
- 1 min
Here is the finished product!
You should be able to see the finished programme here. At least for a while until it is removed by France TV Pluzz. Eventually they...
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Andrew Starr
- Sep 28, 2016
- 1 min
I am on TV Tonight in France.
I am on TV tonight in Normandy! 23:25 (Paris Time) of France 3 Haute Normandie and Basse Normandie there is a repeat showing on Friday...
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Andrew Starr
- Sep 22, 2016
- 1 min
Working with France 3 Télévisions
Here is the trailer for the programme I will be featuring in (you won't see me in it, that would spoil the surprise!! However I am in a...
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Andrew Starr
- Aug 10, 2016
- 1 min
How did they translate Hodor's name in Game of Thrones?
This links to a website, explaining how the name of a Game of Thrones' character Hodor was translated. If you have not seen the show and...
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Andrew Starr
- Aug 3, 2016
- 1 min
Lost in translation
This blog post serves as a place to collect together links found about mistranslations published on the web. 7 biggest translation fails...
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Andrew Starr
- Jul 7, 2016
- 1 min
First Guided Tour of Spice Island
Today was the first official guided tour I have done of the Spice Island. A tour with some visiting German Gymnasium (Grammar School)...
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Andrew Starr
- Jun 24, 2016
- 3 min
My career-changing MA in Translation Studies at the University of Portsmouth 2014-2015
I had spent twenty years teaching French, German and beginner’s Italian in comprehensive schools in the South of England and had also...
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Andrew Starr
- Jun 11, 2016
- 1 min
A day's visit from Caen.
Today I helped guide a group of visitors from Caen (Portsmouth's twin town) on a tour of Portsmouth. We went on a tour of the city...
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Andrew Starr
- Jun 4, 2016
- 1 min
Shocking New Evidence on the overuse of online translation...
Sorry for the "Daily Express" style headline there, but this sign shocked me so much I felt like writing to the "Daily Mail" about it....
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