Join us for the 2026 SENSE Professional Development Day
on Saturday 31 October 2026 in Ede, Netherlands.



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What is SENSE, and what does SENSE do?

SENSE is a society for English-language professionals based in the Netherlands. We are a community of language workers who work from or into English, with a connection to the Netherlands.

Attend informal get-togethers

SENSE regularly hosts meetings (SIGs) for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online.

Forum for members only

SENSE's web forum is where members can post questions, give answers, and chat with other members. There is also a jobs category where jobs are posted from potential clients who visited the SENSE website.

Get a mentor to guide you

SENSE has a mentoring programme whereby experienced SENSE members can help inexperienced members for a small fee (subsidized by SENSE).

Event calendar / agenda

Never miss an event! Discover upcoming webinars, workshops and social events on the SENSE Calender, or browse through the ones that you have missed.

Contact other members easily

SENSE members are encouraged to make contact with other members. That is what being in a society is all about. All SENSE members can search for or browse the list of current SENSE members.

Read our regular blog

SENSE members and guest authors post meeting reports and interesting articles on the SENSE Blog. It also represents an opportunity to budding copywriters to get their name on screen.

Guidelines for student texts

SENSE has prepared its own "Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts" and a "Form to Confirm Proofreading Services". Download them free of charge.

Best practices

The Dutch Convenant explains what freelance translators and translation agencies in the Netherlands typically consider good practice in their dealings with each other. Visit sense-online.nl/dutch-covenant.

ITI: The complete English syntax playbook for translators

Online workshop: The complete English syntax playbook for translators

On 8 August and 15 August the Institute of Translation and Interpreting is organizing two online workshops called 'The complete English syntax playbook for translators'.

Explore the subtleties of syntax to help improve your writing and translation.

The word “syntax” often brings to mind complicated grammatical terminology and dusty old textbooks - yet knowing what to put where in a sentence is an essential skill, especially when source-language interference can easily make us forget the natural flow and wording of the English language.

Instead of teaching syntax from a classical grammatical perspective or having participants translate from any one particular language into English, this short course presents real-world texts to improve and then helps tease out the general rule of thumb we would do well to keep in mind.

From coupling and emphasis to rounding and balance, we will go over incredibly valuable yet surprisingly little-known tactics we can apply when writing and translating in order to consistently achieve poise and win over our clients and readers.

You will come away from the course with a complete playbook that will give you greater self-confidence, take a lot of the guesswork out of your translations, enable you to work faster, and enjoy the “sport” of translation like never before.

You can find out more about this workshop on the ITI website.

Prices:

ITI members: £120 + VAT

Non-members: £179 + VAT