© Mike and Janet Sadler 2011-
About Mike Sadler
A fishy job
“The phone rang late one evening. It was the owner of a small haulage business; his articulated lorry, loaded with perishable goods, had been impounded in Spain and he didn’t know why. I managed to find the number of the Guardia Civil in the village in question and phoned them. It turned out that the driver had forgotten a key document that was sitting on the owner’s desk. One quick fax later and the lorry was released and with it an awful lot of fish.
It was only an hour’s work, so I charged him at interpreting rates, which worked out at £50 including the cost of the calls. I think it saved him a bit more than that!”
Mike graduated from the University of Salford in 1977 with a Joint Honours degree in Spanish and Russian, specialising in technical translation and liaison interpreting. In 1992 he added the French Final Diploma of the Institute of Linguists and he completed his academic portfolio with his Master’s degree in Education Management in 1996.
Mike started freelance translating and interpreting in 1986 and has done many, many commissions since then. He initially combined freelance translating with a career as a teacher, then senior leader, in a secondary school. He is now translating and proofreading full time.
About Janet Sadler
Janet graduated from the University of Leeds in 1974 with an Honours degree in Spanish.
She was a teacher and middle leader in a secondary school, starting freelance translating
and interpreting in 1986. She is a superb proofreader and uses her skill not only
in checking all of Mike Sadler’s output but also as a freelancer for a blue chip
publisher of English language teaching materials. Janet is particularly expert not
only at spotting grammar and logical errors but in catching phrasing that doesn’t
quite convey the right nuance of meaning -
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“Thanks, John.” Mike thanks John Ayres of Bosch Rexroth Mobile for taking the trouble to help him with some very specialised terminology, which has now been successfully incorporated into a technical translation. “Many, many thanks.”