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The 2022 Translated Literature Challenge

The 2022 Translated Literature Challenge

I want to read more and a wider variety of translated literature and so I started the Translated Literature Reading Challenge! Whether anyone joins or not, I will try and read at least one translated book a month based on

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Jennifer O'Donnell April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Literary Translation, Personal No Comments Read more

My Failures As a Translator

My Failures As a Translator

We don’t talk about failures enough. “Translation is a super competitive industry. It’s a dog-eat-dog world where only the best survive. If we show our weaknesses, our failures, then we’ll damage our job prospects forever. Don’t let you’re PM know

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Jennifer O'Donnell June 18, 2019December 11, 2021 Personal No Comments Read more

2018 – A Year in Review of Japanese Language and Translation

2018 – A Year in Review of Japanese Language and Translation

It felt like the first six months of the year were well paced. I was getting a fair amount of work done, writing articles, studying interpreting and Japanese…… Then July happened. But let’s not jump ahead of ourselves. Year in

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Jennifer O'Donnell December 18, 2018January 3, 2019 Personal No Comments Read more

Interpreting for Ryo Horikawa

Interpreting for Ryo Horikawa

I had a crazy weekend that I never imagined would happen. A few months ago my friend Stacey messaged me asking if I wanted to join her interpreting at a Dragon Ball event in Texas. This was the first ever

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Jennifer O'Donnell May 11, 2018May 27, 2018 Interpreting, Personal No Comments Read more

I got 2nd Place in a Literary Translation Competition!

I got 2nd Place in a Literary Translation Competition!

On March 12th 2018 J. D. Wisgo of Self Taught Japanese announced a literary translation competition for promising translators. (Japanese Translation Contest Announced: Promising Translators 2018.) This competition was for novice translators who are unpublished to translate a short literary

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Jennifer O'Donnell April 25, 2018April 30, 2018 Literary Translation, Personal No Comments Read more

An Exercise in Research – The Extremely Hard Take Home Anime Quiz

An Exercise in Research – The Extremely Hard Take Home Anime Quiz

The Extreme Hard Take Home Anime Quiz is a fun fan-made quiz. It is held twice a year at a few anime conventions in the US, and has been for about 10 years. It’s an open-book quiz that you have

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Jennifer O'Donnell April 8, 2018January 3, 2019 Further Education, Personal No Comments Read more

February 2018 Goals

February 2018 Goals

I want to be better at setting myself monthly goals for self-development. These are things I keep saying I want to do but kept putting off. I hope to set myself just 3 goals a month and the will update

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Jennifer O'Donnell February 3, 2018February 3, 2018 Personal No Comments Read more

2018 Goals and Challenges

2018 Goals and Challenges

The new year is always a great time to set self-improvements and self-development goals. But I’ve always found that calling them “resolutions” and aiming for the end of the year never works. I much prefer to set monthly and three

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Jennifer O'Donnell January 17, 2018January 20, 2018 Personal No Comments Read more

Translation and Dyslexia

Translation and Dyslexia

In secondary school (middle school) we had to learn French and Spanish. I really hated these classes because I just couldn’t do them. In all my classes I struggled with spelling and reading, but languages were the worst. I got

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Jennifer O'Donnell December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 Personal No Comments Read more

NOTIS – Roundtable on Education for Literary Translators

NOTIS – Roundtable on Education for Literary Translators

I will be on the panel for a roundtable about education for translators this week (11/8/2017)! The panel is being held by the literary translators branch of the Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society (NOTIS) in conjunction with the private library

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Jennifer O'Donnell November 6, 2017 Literary Translation, Personal 1 Comment Read more

Getting the Creative Juices Flowing – Translate Like No One’s Watching

Getting the Creative Juices Flowing – Translate Like No One’s Watching

Happy National Translation Day! I would like to celebrate National Translation Day (9/30) by telling you a story about frustration, fighting, and self discovery.   Translation Never Seemed to Click At First My very first job outside of University was

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Jennifer O'Donnell September 29, 2017October 2, 2017 Personal 2 Comments Read more

The Financial Diet – Money Wasted on Learning Japanese

The Financial Diet – Money Wasted on Learning Japanese

I began following The Financial Diet last year. Simply put it’s a website and YouTube channel which shares advice about money. It’s a website made by women so has slightly female leaning content (i.e saving money on makeup, although I have

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Jennifer O'Donnell August 20, 2017September 11, 2017 Japanese Language, Personal No Comments Read more

My New Language Challenge – Korean 3 Months On

My New Language Challenge – Korean 3 Months On

So 3 months ago I wrote about My New Language Challenge where I gave myself 3 months to learn Korean. It did not go as planned…   Starting on a High So at first I was incredibly motivated. I was studying

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Jennifer O'Donnell April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 Personal 1 Comment Read more

6 Years Ago – The Tohoku Earthquake from Osaka

6 Years Ago – The Tohoku Earthquake from Osaka

6 years ago I was in my 7th month of living in Japan, studying at Kansai Gaidai in Osaka. Osaka is over 500 miles from Tohoku yet we still felt the 2011 earthquake and experienced it in our own way.

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Jennifer O'Donnell March 11, 2017March 22, 2017 Personal No Comments Read more

My New Language Challenge

My New Language Challenge

For about 5 years now I’ve been wanting to learn Korean. It started as “it would be nice to start learning Korean”… Then it became “I’d really like to learn Korean”… And now it’s become “I am going to learn

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Jennifer O'Donnell February 3, 2017April 3, 2017 Personal 2 Comments Read more

New Year Goals 2017

New Year Goals 2017

I really believe new years resolutions can be a great thing to drive people to self improvement. Not in a “New Year, New Me!” kind of way. That’s silly. I don’t want to be “new” I want to be “me”,

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Jennifer O'Donnell January 18, 2017September 19, 2021 Personal 1 Comment Read more

Update on Jennifer & JEN Translations

Update on Jennifer & JEN Translations

  JEN Translations and my work translating Japanese to English has been very quiet this last month. So I wanted to provide an explanation for why. I recently moved from the UK to the US to be with my husband.

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Jennifer O'Donnell December 8, 2016September 19, 2021 Personal Read more
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