AJ Starr 

At some point during 2020 wix.com updated some of the urls linking to major blogposts about twinning in Portsmouth. We have a new global...

Text underlined in bold and blue on this blog page will take to you to relevant websites or documents. I have joined Translators Without...

I keep other blogs on this website under links which can be found on the homepage. There are some blog entries that are translation of...

I gave a talk this morning at the Charter Academy in Portsmouth about my career using languages as part of their year 10 languages week....

For some months now, I have been working Academia Webinars, a company based in Germany offering webinars for translators, interpreters,...

On Wednesday March 8th 2017, I was invited to speak about my career change and life as an entrepreneurial freelance translator at the...

On Thursday March 2nd I took Mark Acheson of 'The News' (Portsmouth's local newspaper) on a tour of Old Portsmouth. This tour was filmed...

I am currently working with an independent travel agency in France. Helping them update their website in to English, the current version...

I am pleased to announce that I am organising a visit to Portsmouth's twin-town of Caen in March 2017. In association with the...

Last weekend (October 22nd) I appeared in an article in the Caen edition of Ouest France with Brigitte Poirier with whom I have been...

The France 3 TV programme is now available online in High Definition through this link

You should be able to see the finished programme here. At least for a while until it is removed by France TV Pluzz. Eventually they...

I am on TV tonight in Normandy! 23:25 (Paris Time) of France 3 Haute Normandie and Basse Normandie there is a repeat showing on Friday...

Here is the trailer for the programme I will be featuring in (you won't see me in it, that would spoil the surprise!! However I am in a...

This links to a website, explaining how the name of a Game of Thrones' character Hodor was translated. If you have not seen the show and...

This blog post serves as a place to collect together links found about mistranslations published on the web. 7 biggest translation fails...

Today was the first official guided tour I have done of the Spice Island. A tour with some visiting German Gymnasium (Grammar School)...

I had spent twenty years teaching French, German and beginner’s Italian in comprehensive schools in the South of England and had also...

Today I helped guide a group of visitors from Caen (Portsmouth's twin town) on a tour of Portsmouth. We went on a tour of the city...

Sorry for the "Daily Express" style headline there, but this sign shocked me so much I felt like writing to the "Daily Mail" about it....