Virve Juhola
Contact details
Taivassalo/Kustavi
Finland
Finland
Finland
Finland
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Translating
Writing
Communications Specialist
Translating
Writing
Communications Specialist
Language pairs
English > English
English > Finnish
Finnish > English
Finnish > Finnish
Swedish > English
Swedish > Finnish
English > Finnish
Finnish > English
Finnish > Finnish
Swedish > English
Swedish > Finnish
Areas of expertise
Architecture
Art
Business and Finance
Economics
Entertainment
Environment
Industry
Information Technology
Literature and Philosophy
Marketing
Art
Business and Finance
Economics
Entertainment
Environment
Industry
Information Technology
Literature and Philosophy
Marketing
Qualifications and experience
Language and communications specialist, writer, editor and translator in Finnish and English, from Swedish, Spanish, a bit of Asturian, German and more. Fixing to work summers based in the Finnish archipelago, winters based in Spain. I mainly work on non-academic material, such as editorial and corporate content, copywriting, and fiction, mainly audiobooks. It's all about context at www.capecontext.com
Continuing professional development
METMs
Workshops
- Three minisessions:
- Story factor: leveraging advanced storytelling techniques to engage and inspire
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- On voice: activating the passivists, passifying the activists
- Translating for the art world
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- The lost art of parsing: how understanding the parts of speech can be a valuable tool for language professionals
- Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond
- memoQ: the secrets of a flexible CAT tool revealed
- Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts
Other
I am one of the founding members and former chair of MET's sister association Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT) and a member of a Finnish trade union Akava Special Branches, the Finnish translators' association SKTL, and the Union of Journalists in Finland.