The Queen's Translation Exchange

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@ThamesWestLH @AdaLovelaceSch @UniofOxford @TranslationExch Congratulations! What an amazing accomplishment! 🥳

How do you translate a poem? Find everything you need in our NEW collection of poetry translation resources! Including worksheets for #teachers and top tips from @gabi1981 stephen-spender.org/stephen-spende… Submit your translation by 31 July! #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight

Calling all International Language teachers in Wales! Be part of our exciting new project funded by @WelshGovernment! Register interest in the professional learning programme: forms.office.com/e/rP9UruPsrr Full details: stephen-spender.org/literature-fir… #CreativeTranslation #CurriculumForWales

Buzzing with enthusiasm after delivering a creative translation workshop to a group of Y6 students, who really engaged with the Spanish-language poem. Translation is a powerful tool for developing a range of transferible cross-curricular skills! @StephenSpender @TranslationExch

Celebrate #HHCL with the Stephen Spender Prize! Our bank of poems covers over 50 languages: stephen-spender.org/suggested-poem… Our Poems From Home project encourages young people to translate a poem/song from their family’s country of origin: stephen-spender.org/poems-from-hom… #SSTPoetryPrize2025

Perhaps I can tout the wonderful venture by @TranslationExch for young students of modern languages - the Anthea Bell Prize, named after my late mother. Too few people in UK have a second language. No one, of any age, should be diffident in acquiring one. queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-qu…

Thrilled to be hosting award-winning author Nicol Hochholczerová, along with translators Julia and Peter Sherwood, for a conversation on writing, translation and contemporary Slovak lit. Tickets below! 📍 Queen's College, Oxford 📅 Weds 7 May, 5-6:30 🎟️ tinyurl.com/33u4xb8e

Missed our recent feminist translation slam and symposium in Oxford w/ @peterauger @Rosenkrantz @CaygillBR @charlotteryland @OlgaCastro80 & others? Event report now available: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/outputs/ With thanks to our Project Partners @StephenSpender and @TranslationExch

We had a record number of entries for the @TranslationExch Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. The top 5 in each language & level have gone off to the national competition and recognition points will be awarded to all the @rgshw students who entered. Well done and good luck!

So wonderful to see all the Anthea Bell Prize submissions coming in! There's still plenty of time to take part in this year's competition. We'll be accepting entries until 04/04. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/3apad95v

Great to see this new blog post by Sam Miller about our recent symposium on 'Pedagogies of Feminist Translation' @QueensCollegeOx organised with @StephenSpender and @TranslationExch : queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/pedagogie…

For German Week, we're celebrating the German strand of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators! Just 2 weeks left to enter this year's competition. Get involved and access our free creative translation resources here: tinyurl.com/3apad95v. #shoutoutforgerman @GI_London1

#Teachers! Save the date for #SSTPoetryPrize2025 and this year's #PortugueseSpotlight Register now to get your students involved: forms.office.com/Pages/Response… Find all you need to know here: stephen-spender.org/guide-for-teac… #MFLTwitterati #edutwitter @ismla_uk

Calling all schools! Just 2 weeks left to enter the Anthea Bell Prize, the annual translation competition from @TranslationExch @QueensCollegeOx Open to UK pupils aged 11-18 Free entry - and free resources for #teachers! #MFLTwitterati #edutwitter queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-qu…

"It's already created a real buzz in languages lessons, and it hasn't even started yet!" - great to hear from the hub school for our new Think Like a #Linguist programme, launched last night in #Blackpool with @TranslationExch @QueensOutreach queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-qu…

We're holding a free webinar for Russian teachers on Monday 13 Jan, 4-5pm about the new Russian strand of the Anthea Bell Prize! All Russian teachers are invited to join us to find out more about our teaching resources and the competition. Register here: tinyurl.com/3r93u8zy

🚨Our Flash Fiction Competitions in #French and #Spanish for students in Years 7-13 are now open! 🤩 Find out more here: shorturl.at/zAxVn #oxoutreach #mfltwitterati #edutwitter #modernlanguages

Ever wondered what happens at a Creative Translation workshop? Hear from pupils, teachers, Oxford student ambassadors and our Director @charlotteryland about QTE's Creative Translation Ambassadors programme and our work in schools: tinyurl.com/59pptum5 @QueensCollegeOx

This wonderful illustrated booklet of translations produced by participants at our Thomas Traherne Creative Translation workshop last month features translations of Traherne's 'Walking' in eleven languages, including Welsh, Pashto and Italian: tinyurl.com/2xdc9bmn