Episode 30: Smart Habits for Maintaining Your Language Skills With Eve Bodeux
In today’s episode we’re excited to welcome our friend and colleague, Eve Bodeux. There are so many topics we could discuss with her (as you may have noticed in our previous episode, featuring Eve and Corinne McKay), but today we're focusing on smart habits for maintaining your language skills. It’s extremely important for us, as language professionals, and Eve has a lot of experience in this area.
Eve Lindemuth Bodeux is a 20+-year veteran of the language services industry and has worn many hats. She is an ATA-certified French to English translator focusing on the translation of corporate communications, market research and international development content. She is also the owner of Bodeux International LLC, offering multilingual project management to clients worldwide.
Eve is co-host of the long-running Speaking of Translation podcast and author of Maintaining Your Second Language: practical and productive strategies for translators, teachers, interpreters and other language lovers. She sponsors an online book club for translators called the Global Reads Book Club that focuses on books in translation. She has graduate degrees from both the University of Lorraine (Nancy II) in France and the University of Virginia in the US. She is currently serving a term on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association through 2021.
Here’s what we talked about with Eve:
How and when she started her freelance translation career
What her typical workday looks like
How she protects the boundaries between her work and personal life
What smart habits have been crucial in her career
How to consistently work on maintaining your second-language skills
How to make language practice fun
How to get out of a "rut" when it comes to improving/maintaining your second language
What strategies you can use when raising bilingual kids
Resources we mentioned in this episode:
Eve’s Global Reads Book Club
Speaking of Translation episodes: “Maintaining your second (third, etc.) language” and “Raising bilingual children”
Maintaining Your Second Language by Eve Bodeux:
Purchase Eve's book directly from her by contacting her at eve@bodeuxinternational.com
Eve’s interview with English into Italian translator and author Jenny McPhee
Eve’s interview with Nina Schuyler, the author of The Translator: A Novel
Marleen Seegers of 2 Seas Agency interviews Eve on the Make Books Travel podcast
Selfie ring light with an extendable tripod stand and flexible phone holder
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story by Bess Kalb
Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist's Guide to Getting—and Staying—Organized by Amanda Sullivan
Watching You: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
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