In January 2021, our company made a strategic business decision to go fully remote and 14 of us bade a fond farewell to our seaside office in Newquay, Cornwall. We’re now a team of 31 which means over half of us have only ever experienced AJT as a fully remote workplace. While everyone in the
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Watching the crisis unfold in Ukraine is harrowing and has left many of us feeling helpless, anxious and angry. Even though we have no business ties to Ukraine or Russia and none of our team members are based in either country, we feel personally and deeply affected by what’s going on. After all, we are
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It’s not a household name. And it hasn’t really infiltrated all areas of the business world, yet. But to those who do know what it is, and to those who know what it represents, it’s probably become a very important part of their day-to-day life. I’m referring to B Corp. Or B Corps. Or, to
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What does it mean to be ethical? Ethics are a set of moral principles that govern our behaviour and our conduct. It’s more than just abiding by the law. Being ethical is a commitment to do what’s morally right – for our team, for our customers, for our community and for our planet. Being ethical means
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It’s not often that I get goose bumps during a presentation at a language industry event. But as I sat and listened to Mandy Hewett’s talk entitled ‘Collaborative translation for the future of New Zealand’ about a group of volunteer translators who set out to translate one of New Zealand’s most important documents into 30
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Working as a translator is obviously mostly done with your brain and not with your body. Translating can be quite exhausting sometimes, but here at AJT we never throw in the towel. We all love different sports whether it’s going to the gym, playing badminton or kicking a football and we try to keep our
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I have to start with an admission: I have a bit of a professional crush on the Stranger Collective. Ever since we first had the opportunity to collaborate with the copywriting geniuses at Stranger, translating their beautifully crafted blogs for Coca-Cola’s Think Positively Collective into five languages (this was way back in 2010 and our
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It is commonly known that different cultures perceive and treat animals in entirely different ways: whereas dogs are seen as food in some parts of China, they are the most beloved pets in Western Europe. Cows are considered holy in India, but are the core ingredient of almost every hamburger in Great Britain. But apart
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Although I am a native Dutch speaker and have lived in the UK for many years, I still have the occasional embarrassing steenkolenengels (literally coal English) moment. Also called Dunglish: the popular term to describe the mistakes made by some native Dutch speakers when speaking English. The Dutch term steenkolenengels goes back to the early
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Here at AJT, we live and translate by the sea. Every day we’re inspired by our relationship with the ocean, so we thought it might be fun to have a look at where some of the nautical terms found in our daily vocabulary originated. Some expressions have quite an obvious nautical connection: to know the ropes
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