I had one of those awful days last Friday, when an agency client got in touch to say her end client wasn’t satisfied with my
Read more
Interpreting in the digital era: How to prosper rather than survive in the new reality
(video) Barry Slaughter Olsen, conference interpreter, general manager of Multilingual at ZipDX, co-president of InterpAmerica shares insights on new technologies in interpreting and how you
Read more
Why does subtitling takes so long?
The turnaround might not always sounds reasonable to our client for short videos, so let’s take a ride through the Subtitling process to better understand.
Read more
Keeping Your Translation Clients Happy
One of the most important keys to a successful career as a translator is keeping your client happy. To do this, it’s crucial to understand
Read more
Why multiple screens can help you translate faster
How and why multiple screens can help you work and translate faster. Translation is not anymore about working on one file, with nothing else, but
Read more
Visual Localization tools for newbies
List of common localization tools http://translation-worlds.blogspot.be
Read more
The 3 Biggest Reasons Why Job Auction Sites Are Not Great
In my humble opinion, through personal experience, I feel auction sites simply are ineffective, unfair and downright unethical. Here are my top three biggest reasons
Read more
Freelancer Income Survey 2015
Are you earning enough? Read the Freelancer Income Report and find out! (report to download) The Payoneer Freelancer Income Survey Benchmark Your Rates
Read more
Quotation Exercise – Documentation (one target language)
Quotation prepared by a translation agency for a translation project consisting of one document to be translated into one language. Description Translation agency: based in
Read more
Figuring Out Translation Rates
Figuring out rates can be tough. There is discussion forum after discussion forum where newbies are asking how much they should charge and veteran translators
Read more
Resources – Marketing tips for translators
Here is a resource page that you can come to for tips on books, hosting, tools etc. to enhance your freelance translation business and enhance
Read more
The Process of Translation
I created my first infographic to illustrate the Process of translation as simply and clearly as possible. (Available in several languages)
Read more
An A -Z Guide to Translation Buying
Finding a decent translation provider is not an easy task. The number of questions you have to ask yourself: Is it expensive? What does the
Read more
Rebranding the translation profession
I got a recruiting email this week from a group called “My Translation”, which bills itself as “A Revolution in Translation”. Naturally I was curious,
Read more
Getting a Ph.D. in Translation Studies
I am nearing the end of my time in a doctoral program in translation studies, so I thought I would write a little bit about
Read more
Can the Language Community embrace Collaborative Commons and survive?
When Albert Einstein said: “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”, he was referring neither to the internet nor to localization. Today the
Read more
Why you’re addicted to multitasking and how to kick the habit
Multitasking is prized in our busy world, but science tells us this is a recipe for disaster. Instead, kick-start your productivity with these simple tips.
Read more
Mesure de la qualité en TA – Traductologie de corpus et qualité : étude de cas
L’objectif de cet article est de proposer une réflexion sur le rôle que pourraient jouer les études menées dans le cadre des corpus-based translation studies
Read more
Bad Advice for Novice Skydivers: “Learn As You Go”
Why the First, Best Lesson I Learned about Translation Was a Healthy Fear. I was a poor, scrawny white kid with crooked teeth who grew
Read more
Translator organizations | ProZ.com
A listing of organizations serving the translation industry. http://www.proz.com
Read more
Keeping up with source language (if you don’t live there)
Years ago I started a job in local government as the Clerk (read Chief Executive Officer) of a local council in West Sussex, in the
Read more
Online Tool to Easily Create a Translator CV
When you’re working with translation agencies, your CV is the first point of contact and having a well-structured, concise and well written CV can often
Read more
What is “the right rate” for your translation services?
After “How do I find some clients?,” I think that the most common question I get from beginning (and for that matter, experienced) translators is
Read more
On minimum rates
When I first started in translation and was about to write my first invoice, I asked a colleague and friend to check if I had
Read more
Books | ProZ.com
Various categories of books linked to the translation market: Translation; Getting started; Freelancing; Management; Marketing; Interpreting; etc.
Read more
Resources: Learn About Localization
Learn about localization through our collection of free reports, ebooks, and white papers. Localization doesn’t have to be hard! https://www.transifex.com
Read more
The role of localization testing
We are certainly moving fast toward a world where the digital content becomes the first option for users or the place where software companies develop
Read more