A life in translation

Statistics and facts about my first ten years (2012-2022) as a court translator in Germany translating Brazilian documents for direct clients only.

Will human translators disappear in light of technology advances in machine translation and Artificial Intelligence? Here is my take on that.

Germany has the 8th largest Brazilian community in the world and the 5th largest in Europe, comprising of different Brazilian migrant groups.

A short portrayal of my personal experience so far as a migrant entrepreneur from Brazil in Germany, the country where I have lived since 2007.

Here is the technology I use as working tools in my professional translation business for tasks such as quality assurance and client management.

My experience as a blogging translator since 2006, writing for four different translation blogs I owned, and what I have learned since then.

Personal insights into the Brazilian translation industry, with a discussion of its similarities with and differences from the situation in Germany.

In the last 25 years, I’ve seen many misconceptions about translation as a profession, so here is my attempt at clarifying at least some of them.

Learn how I became a sworn translator in Brazil (Tradutor Público) and learned certified translation techniques with an experienced mentor.

My career start as a freelance translator was rather bumpy, but after that translating became my main source of income – here you will find out how.

In 1996, I came for a language stay in Germany after I obtained a scholarship from the Goethe Institute as the school’s best student of the year.

A look back at how I first came in contact with the German language in the 1990s, at a time when I was living in the Brazilian State of Bahia.

In the first article celebrating my 25th anniversary as a professional translator, I’ll share how I studied translation and interpreting in Brazil.