http://www.cheznatasha.nl Copywriting and translation Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:11:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You could blame Twitter and Facebook, but this blog will no longer be updated! Follow me on Twitter. Join me on Facebook: Natasha Cloutier. Join me on Flickr. Read my English-language news blog about The Netherlands: 24oranges. Find out more about my DJing and French music events at Radio Oh la la. You can also ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2009/07/24/the-last-post/ As the year draws to a close, the City of Amsterdam is apparently obliged to send every immigrant (including yours truly) a letter that says we have to integrate, get to know Dutch society and learn the language. According to an Amsterdam politician friend of mine, the city has to ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/11/12/2-4-6-8-its-time-to-integrate/ Yes, it's time to up the ante and guest post in Dutch regularly. I was nicely asked to do so by well-known Dutch lifehacker and nice guy, Erno Hanink of enthousiasmeren.nl. Check out my latest blurb entitled "Help! Mijn bedrijf kan niet communiceren in het Engels" (Help! My company can't communicate ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/09/15/guest-posting-in-dutch-regularly/ Now here's something that has never happened to me before: my freezer caught fire yesterday. It freaked me out completely, as it could have been a helluvalot worse. I had turned it off for months, as it's too big for one person and I rarely used it. Trying to save electricity ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/09/03/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire/ (Caption: Wow! Via Natasha we're just one step removed from... Kevin, Steve, Ed, Jim & Tyler!) The reference is to the members of Canadian band Barenaked Ladies from Toronto, which ironically I interviewed and enjoyed live by the sea in Daytona Beach, Florida on Spring Break back in 1989 or so. ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/06/09/fokke-sukke-cartoon-just-for-me/ When I was a little girl we had two cats, Ti-Noir ('Blackie') and Ti-Gris ('Little grey one'). T-Noir was a big tabby that just got too old (16 or so) and Ti-Gris had decided to take off into the woods and never come back one summer. My dad had the ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/06/02/moonster-the-cat-checks-out-at-21-years-3-months/ After a private performance by tap dancer Marije Nie to inspire the troops, Steve Korver, Editor-in-Chief of the Amsterdam Weekly, Amsterdam's award-winning English-language free weekly, reminded us that print media doesn't come cheap. After backers of the paper decided to retire themselves and their money, the paper had to come ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/04/04/amsterdam-weekly-is-for-sale/ Here are some tips in Dutch on how to quickly find translations for folks not in the translation business, published on the site of Women on the Web. The websites mentioned are in English. The IATE database works in all 27 EU languages and some Latin. http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/03/17/tips-for-finding-translation-answers-yourself/ I will be giving two small presentations in Dutch about French sixties singer Jacqueline Taïeb and the French music scene in the Netherlands, which is taking off thanks to the efforts of some seriously groovy people. It's also in my 'hood, which is very cool. I was even asked what ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/02/15/another-dutch-presentation-about-french-music/ < No less than four pages of pictures and text about French singing girls were including in an article entitled "Zuchtmeisjes" (mentioned on the cover, on the right) of HP/De Tijd written by Paul Alexander who interviewed me for this last year. Pushing what often feels like a square peg in ... http://www.cheznatasha.nl/2008/01/31/interview-in-hpde-tijd-about-french-music/