Thursday, 11 November 2010, 4:47 PM

To Be Lost, Or Not to Be Lost in Translation?

So, I have to tell you about our new translation team. I’ve worked with quite a few translators before, but found it pretty hard to get it translated with the right tone and feel that I wanted. Now we’ve solved it!

My lovely mom, Kersti Wittbom, has worked as a translator translating English to Swedish for a long time, and she never misses a grammatical beat…ever (yes, Kersti had to translate this…a little awkward). Now she’s met her perfect American co-captain living in Sweden, Ari Ahokas, who was raised in North Carolina but has been living in Sweden for 2 years now. Ari is the one who basically adds the color of our personalities in all the posts, and try’s to keep things up to date while making grammatical errors that Kersti has to fix (and yes, Ari had to translate this too…).

Here they are in the heat of the moment:

Yes, the photos are bad…It’s my fault. No, we’re not sponsored by Espresso House. (The other guy is the one and only, Christopher.  The man behind everything beautiful on all of our websites.)

You can’t find easier and more positive people to work with than these two. Thanks so much for all of your help!

Sarah@@@@@