English with Kirsty – episode 243
English with Kirsty – episode 243
Rita Menezes on subtitling and how subtitles can help you as a language learner
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My guest today is Rita Menezes, whom I met through the language networking events that I run with Rita Prazeres Gonçalves.
Since 2002, Rita Menezes has been working as translator, subtitler, transcreator and reviser/quality controller in several audiovisual, transcreation and marketing projects; these projects include, for example, films and series now on streaming and marketing campaigns of well-known brands. Since 2014, Rita has also been involved in translator’s training. Rita has a BA in Translation and Interpreting, a MSc in Relationship Marketing and a PhD in Translation Studies, specialised in audiovisual translation. As a researcher, her main research interests are subtitling, subtitling revision/quality control and pivot subtitling. She is the co-author of the educational project ApiVoT and co-editor of a special issue of “Perspectives” about pivot audiovisual translation. Creativity, ethics and technology are areas that awaken her curiosity.
We talked about:
- Rita’s background and how she got into subtitling
- Different types of subtitling projects
- Some of the rules that subtitlers need to follow when creating subtitles
- How subtitles can help you to learn a language or improve your language skills
- Current changes in the subtitling industry.
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You can find out more about Rita and her work by visiting her on
- Rita has also been involved in a project that created infographics to make information around subtitling easier for everybody to understand. You can find out more about the project and see the infographics here. You can read Rita’s text about subtitling as a balancing act which accompanies one of the infographics, or you can read Rita’s post on LinkedIn about them..
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