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nou blog: martapiqs a Irlanda

Doncs sí! Ho sento, he començat un altre blog: martapiqs a Irlanda (títol per acabar de decidir : ) (he tornat a donar una oportunitat a Blogger i aquesta és l’adreça del nou blog: http://martapiqsairlanda.blogspot.com/ )

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Moving to Ireland | De mudança a Irlanda

Yes, I’m flying to Dublin tomorrow and I’ll join the Google family again on Monday, Nov. 30th. More details to come once I’m settled (or settling : ) Doncs sí, després de dos mesos força intensos de procés de selecció, he acceptat l’oferta de feina que Google em va fer dijous passat per treballar a [...]

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Ireland, where business ideas take off

Sign at San Francisco Int’l airport

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full time specialized position for 6000 EUR/year???????

How ridiculous can we get?? Translation and Copyrighting Specialist at Grifols, Sant Cugat, Spain. Below are screenshots of the offer (sorry it’s split into two) They should be ambarrassed to be offering that. EDIT: in the comments below, in Catalan, Mezkal lets us know that the company, Grifols, has removed the information regarding salary. Mezkal [...]

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Language endangerment-related videos

Thanks to Lev’s last post on the movie The Linguists, I’ve found a few jewels of videos on endangered language documentation, revitalization, etc. The Linguists – Archiving for Speakers and Linguists is just one of them, but you’ll see some more related videos at the bottom of the screen.

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misc

Translation work: I had to turn down a job today because this agency I’ve never worked for yet wanted me to do a mid to long sized translation in 1.5 days and the pay is not too good (that seems to be a trend). I would have still taken it for the money and challenge, [...]

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nova temporada: el meu CV o currículum

Com que estic buscant feina, penjaré aquí el meu currículum, si més no el que he intentat fer més polivalent. Més endavant penjaré el currículum acadèmic. Amb aquest currículum m’agradaria trobar feina d’intèrpret d’enllaç, de traductora, correctora o d’alguna feina de cara al públic com hostessa de fires i congressos, cambrera o recepcionista. També em [...]

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de Nueva Luz a Maseka. Dades recollides

Despres d’estar 10 dies a Nueva Luz, on començava  a entendre el Matsigenka i a treballar recollint paraules en Matsigenka i Kakinte, el cap de la comunitat se’m va atansar ebri i em va demanar que marxes, que no tenia autoritzacio per continuar la feina. Despres d’intentar solucionar-ho i de diversos  viatges per l’Urubamba per [...]

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Sepahua, and then Nueva Luz

We got to Sepahua a little after 4pm, wasy earlier than we were expecting. Getting here at that time was only a little over 8h of boat trip from Atalaya –we had in fact been told it’d take us 8h, but so far every time we had been said a similar thing (for the trips [...]

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fotos / photos

Río Marañón and Andoas Viejo (on Pastaza river): Katsakati language elicitation and our team’s place there.                                                                                 [...]

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