Report: pre-interview English test

Today I had a two-hour test at Softitler, a subtitling and closed-captioning company where I've applied to be an English editor. The test consisted of three parts:

1. A pen-and-paper grammar test, which also included some general knowledge questions and (for some reason) a logic problem. I think I did pretty well here.

2. A transcription test: they gave you an audio file, and you needed to transcribe as much as you could. I think I did pretty poorly here, because I only realized about a minute into the recording that I could pause it. So my first minute is full of partial, poorly-transcribed sentences as I tried to keep up with talk-show interview speech. By the time I realized I could pause the file, I also realized I couldn't rewind it, so I'm not particularly happy with the end result on that one.

3. A subtitle-editing test: we were given the beginning of an episode of Gilmore Girls, with subtitles already included, but with many errors. Our job was to fix all the mistakes. I think I did pretty well here also, though there may be a few small errors in punctuation due to some questions I had about their style guide.

In the end, i find out in about two weeks how I did. I refuse to think about it anymore right now.

Saturday night - bored

Bored.

It's 8:20 on a Saturday night, and I'm home, surfing the internet. Does anyone want to get together and do something (preferably something that doesn't cost too much money), like coffee or other beverages downtown?

Plans are made! Feel free to join! loupdebois and I are meeting up at Cine Express. All are welcome to join us, if you like. We should be getting there around 10-ish. Cheers!