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How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, Third Edition

Author : Corinne McKay

Publisher : Two Rat Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 48,41 MB

Release : 2015-12-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780578170077

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Book Description

The original how-to guide for people who want to launch and run a successful freelance translation business, fully revised and updated! With over 10,000 copies in print, How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator has become a go-to reference for beginning and experienced translators alike. The fully revised third edition includes nearly 250 pages of practical tips on writing a translation-targeted resume and cover letter, preparing a marketing plan, marketing your services to agencies and direct client, avoiding common pitfalls, and more! New in this edition: an all-new technology chapter by translation technology expert Jost Zetzsche, and more detailed information on ways to market to direct clients.



How to be a Successful Freelance Translator: Your guide to earning a living through translation. Use your language skills to create a career.

Author : Robert Gebhardt

Publisher : Lugano Translations LLC

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 25,99 MB

Release : 2020-02-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1660736528

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Use your language skills to earn a living Remember, your languages are your Competitive Advantage. Especially when times are hard, you can survive and thrive more than ever, if you do things your own way. Translators can now earn a great living in ways that were unimaginable just 10-15 years ago. You can get paid to translate documents for the clients you choose, during the hours you choose, and wearing the clothes that you choose. What you get with this book: Step-by-step instructions, from A to Z Detailed instructions (what to charge, where to find clients, etc.) Templates you can use (intro emails, invoices, etc.) Plenty of extra bonuses and tidbits Makes a great gift for an aspiring Freelance Translator! You've learned your language, and this book concentrates on everything else. Join other Freelance Translators and add this to your basket now!



The Entrepreneurial Linguist

Author : Judy A. Jenner

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 13,81 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0557256232

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Book Description

Any linguist can become an entrepreneurial linguist, work with direct clients, and make a good living while maintaining a healthy work/life balance. This book by longtime translating twins Judy and Dagmar Jenner will teach you how to start your entrepreneurial linguist journey. Written in a purposely non-academic style, "The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation" will show you how to market your services to direct clients, build and nurture relationships, grow your client base in a structured way, use web 2.0 to promote your services, and much more. This book is intended for both beginning and established translators and interpreters around the world.



Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies

Author : Corinne Mckay

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 21,11 MB

Release : 2017-10-12

Category :

ISBN : 9781978136649

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Book Description

Translation agencies are the backbone of many freelance translators' businesses. A good agency can offer you a steady flow of projects, allowing you to translate while the agency handles the non-translation work. But especially in the rapidly-changing landscape of the translation industry, you need to know how to find and market to translation agencies and how to work effectively with them. Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies walks you through the process of identifying agencies that are worth applying to, making contact, following up, tracking your marketing efforts, and negotiating rates and payment terms. The book includes a bonus chapter, answering real-life questions submitted by readers of the author's blog.



Using CAT Tools in Freelance Translation

Author : Paulina Pietrzak

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 38,36 MB

Release : 2020-11-29

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1000295494

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Book Description

This book explores the impact of applying computer-assisted (CAT) tools in freelance translation toward better understanding translators’ strategies, preferences, and challenges in using new technologies and identifying areas of enhancement in translator training. The volume offers a brief overview of the latest developments in technology in translation, examining such issues as the effect on the translation process and the dynamics of the translator-technology interaction. Drawing on data from a study with active translators in Poland, Pietrzak and Kornacki examine the underlying factors underpinning translators’ lack of engagement with these tools, including such issues as prevailing pre-conceptions around technology and limited knowledge hindering the most efficacious use of these resources and the subsequent impact on translator identity. Taken together, the book brings together these insights to help pinpoint freelance translators’ needs more effectively and adapt training programmes accordingly. The volume will be of interest to scholars in translation studies with an interest in process and technology as well as active translators.



Localizing Apps

Author : Johann Roturier

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 13,32 MB

Release : 2015-05-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1317621662

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The software industry has undergone rapid development since the beginning of the twenty-first century. These changes have had a profound impact on translators who, due to the evolving nature of digital content, are under increasing pressure to adapt their ways of working. Localizing Apps looks at these challenges by focusing on the localization of software applications, or apps. In each of the five core chapters, Johann Roturier examines: The role of translation and other linguistic activities in adapting software to the needs of different cultures (localization); The procedures required to prepare source content before it gets localized (internationalization); The measures taken by software companies to guarantee the quality and success of a localized app. With practical tasks, suggestions for further reading and concise chapter summaries, Localizing Apps takes a comprehensive look at the transformation processes and tools used by the software industry today. This text is essential reading for students, researchers and translators working in the area of translation and creative digital media.



Becoming a Translator

Author : Douglas Robinson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 25,17 MB

Release : 2004-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134420536

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Robinson reveals how to translate faster and more accurately, how to deal with problems and stress, and how the market works. This second edition has been revised throughout, and includes an exploration of new technologies used by translators.



Thoughts on Translation

Author : Corinne McKay

Publisher :

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 11,83 MB

Release : 2013-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780578107356

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Corinne McKay's blog Thoughts on Translation is one of the web's liveliest gathering places for freelance translators...now available in book format Wondering whether to charge by the word or by the hour? How to receive payments from clients in foreign countries? How to write a translation-targeted resume? It's all in here, in chunks that take just a few minutes to read. Corinne McKay is also the author of "How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator," the original career how-to guide for freelance translators, with over 5,000 copies in print. Her practical, down-to-earth tips are based on her own experience launching and running a successful freelance translation business after a first career as a high school teacher.



Japanese–English Translation

Author : Judy Wakabayashi

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 311 pages

File Size : 29,30 MB

Release : 2020-10-06

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1000192393

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Book Description

This volume is a textbook for aspiring translators of Japanese into English, as well as a reference work for professional Japanese–English translators and for translator educators. Underpinned by sound theoretical principles, it provides a solid foundation in the practice of Japanese–English translation, then extends this to more advanced levels. Features include: 13 thematic chapters, with subsections that explore common pitfalls and challenges facing Japanese–English translators and the pros and cons of different procedures exercises after many of these subsections abundant examples drawn from a variety of text types and genres and translated by many different translators This is an essential resource for postgraduate students of Japanese–English translation and Japanese language, professional Japanese–English translators and translator educators. It will also be of use and interest to advanced undergraduates studying Japanese.



Thinking English Translation

Author : Stella Cragie

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 40,99 MB

Release : 2017-11-10

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1351859188

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Thinking English Translation is a practical guide to analysing and translating English source texts. Section I focuses on pre-translation analysis where students are guided to consider the features of a variety of English texts and the various implications for translation into other languages. Section II examines language variety in English in more detail and provides strategies for dealing with translation challenges in a wide range of text types. Thinking English Translation gives students a framework for a better understanding of how to approach source texts in order to tackle translation assignments, whether in class or in the workplace, with confidence. Stella Cragie a Qualified Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, and former Principal Lecturer in Translation at the University of Westminster, is now a freelance translator. Ann Pattison is a former Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Westminster and now works as a freelance translator, editor and writer.