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, 20184 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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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