ITI Spanish Network

Are you an active member of the ITI SPANISH NETWORK? 🇪🇸

Would you like to get more involved and get to know your fellow network members? 🙋🏻‍♀️

If so, then the committee needs you! 🆘

We currently have the following vacancies and are looking for enthusiastic individuals who are willing to spare a bit of time to join us in these roles:

🟢Events Manager

- Planning and management of CPD and social events organised by the network.
- Acting as primary host for all remote events, using Zoom and Eventbrite.

🟢 Treasurer

- Managing the committee’s financial accounts, dealing with incoming and outgoing payments and providing receipts where necessary.
- Assisting and liaising with the Membership Secretary for subscription renewals.

🟢 Mentoring Coordinator

- Coordinating the mentoring programme, pairing up mentees with suitable mentors, according to their requirements and experience.

🟢 Social Media Manager

- Managing the network social media accounts and promoting events and news on all our platforms, as a confident social media user.

⭐️ Being a committee member is an excellent opportunity to develop your CPD and make a professional contribution, whilst raising your profile within the ITI SPANISH NETWORK, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the language services industry at large.

Interested, or want to find out more? 🤔
Get in touch with Sarah Cutts MCIL, CL, MITI or comment below for more details! ⬇️

Calling all members of ITI SPANISH NETWORK!! This is your last chance to renew your membership! If you haven’t already done so, please renew by Friday 21st June to ensure you remain a member for the next 2 years.

£15 for MITI/FITI and £10 for AITI/Student/Affiliates. Payment by PayPal or bank transfer preferred.

If you do not wish to renew, please inform Michael Robson, Membership Secretary.

Thank you to all those who have already renewed! 😊🇪🇸

Calling all legal translators! 📢

Our webinar on Understanding Spanish Inheritance Law and translating Spanish probate documents takes place this Friday 17 May at 10 am with Andrew Leigh.

There are still some tickets remaining, so if you haven't yet signed up then do so now, using the link below!

See you on Friday! 🇪🇸

[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spanish-inheritance-law-tickets-868187611517](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spanish-inheritance-law-tickets-868187611517)

Spanish Inheritance Law Understanding Spanish Inheritance Law and Translating Spanish Probate Documents

📢 Are you a Spanish-English or English-Spanish translators considering specialising in legal translation? 🌍📚Then this workshop starting next week with experienced legal translator Julian Scott, will provide you with the essential foundations you'll need to get started.

In the 3-hour workshop across two days you will:

✅ Gain a more in-depth understanding of the Spanish and English legal systems, including court structure and the legal profession.
✅ Familiarise yourself with some terms of contract law and their meaning.
✅ Learn what notaries do, the structure of a notarial document and how a property sale works in Spain.
✅ Understand about the application of translation theory to legal translation
✅ Get tips about useful research resources for legal translation
✅ Practise your skills translating excerpts from a contract and a notarial document.

By the end of the workshop, you'll feel more confident and proficient in translating contractual and notarial documents, enabling you to pursue a career in legal translation with confidence. 📜🖋️

Time is running out to book. 🚀🔒

Link for booking: https://www.iti.org.uk/discover/events-calendar/an-introduction-to-spanish-english-legal-translation.html

Are you in London?, all translation specialisms considered for these new positions.

We're recruiting 3 translators/writers based in London to support the delivery of our exciting projects!
Deadline 31 August. Full job details and how to apply below:https://www.stephen-spender.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Call-for-Facilitators_August2022.pdf



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Network members who haven't renewed their membership yet, please get in touch with our membership secretary, Sarah Cutts, by 17:00 Friday 24 June to let her know if you would like to renew your membership this year.

Unfortunately, if we don't hear from you before then, we will have to presume that you don't want to renew this year. 🥲

It was great to meet up with 25 of our members for tapas in Brighton. ¡Espero que se la pasaran bien!

We're only 5 days away from our Spanish to English editing translation workshop. We'd like to introduce you to our guest speaker, James Kelly.

There are still a few tickets available! You can get them using the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/principles-of-good-writing-a-practical-look-at-editing-for-spanishenglish-tickets-275475293017

Don't miss out on this great opportunity!

Now it's easier to send ITI Spanish Network a message.

There are plenty of membership categories at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting offering translators the right support.

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Two days until our panel webinar on IP translation, and time to introduce our third guest panellist.

Verónica is representing the Spanish speakers on the panel, so feel free to ask her your questions in Spanish 🇪🇸

Remember tickets are free for network members and £10 for everyone else.

Tickets still available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-webinar-series-5-intellectual-property-tickets-247140553047

With only four days to go until our next panel webinar on intellectual property translation, we'd like to introduce you to our second guest panellist, Dean Evans. (See link below for more information and tickets).

Don't miss out on your opportunity to pick Dean's brain on IP translation.

Remember tickets are FREE for Spanish network members and £10 for everyone else. Non-members could also join the network to benefit from this event, and everything else we have to offer 😊

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-webinar-series-5-intellectual-property-tickets-247140553047

With one week to go until our latest panel webinar: Introduction to Intellectual Property, we would like to start introducing you to our guest panellists, Charlotte Couchman, Dean Evans and Verónica González.

First up is Charlotte Couchman!

What questions you would like to ask Charlotte?

More information on the event and tickets are available using the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-webinar-series-5-intellectual-property-tickets-247140553047

Remember tickets are free for Spanish Network members, and cost £10 for everyone else.

Call to our members.

Could you please answer the poll we have sent everyone in our e-group regarding the spring workshop this year. It would really help us organise the best way to deliver it to you!

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and happy new year from everyone on the network’s committee.

We won’t be monitoring our social media accounts over this festive period, but we’ll be back soon to tell you about what we’ve got lined up for you in 2022!