Translating What Cannot Be Ignored: Pro Bono Translation in the Context of an Ongoing Armed Conflict

by Rita Faleiro | Aug 21, 2026 | Uncategorized

There are translation projects I can describe in detail. I can discuss their terminology, explain their linguistic challenges, identify the subject area and show how particular sentences were adapted for their intended audience. This is not one of those projects. I...

One Small Home Office, Two People and Four Professions

by Rita Faleiro | Aug 19, 2026 | Uncategorized

There is nothing particularly Instagrammable about this photograph. There are books being used to create the right working height, a box from a drawing tablet supporting part of the setup, pieces of paper within reach, more than one computer, visible cables, an audio...

Double ProZ.com Certified PRO: English–Portuguese and Spanish–Portuguese

by Rita Faleiro | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncategorized

A badge represents some professional milestones. What matters, however, is everything that had to be demonstrated before that badge was awarded. I am now officially part of the ProZ.com Certified PRO Network in two language pairs: English–Portuguese and...

A Career I Never Planned — and a Life I Would Never Trade

by Rita Faleiro | Aug 9, 2026 | Uncategorized

At almost 42, I have already lived through more professional reinventions than I can easily count. My life did not follow the straight, reassuring line people like to present in biographies and professional profiles: study, graduate, build a career in the same field,...

Certified Legal Translation Rates: When the Budget Does Not Cover the Service

by Rita Faleiro | Aug 7, 2026 | Certifications, Professional Translation

A recent enquiry about certified legal translation rates offered a particularly clear illustration of a problem that professional translators encounter far too often. The request concerned approximately fifteen pages of English-to-European Portuguese legal...