101 things a translator needs to know – #34
When to say noIt's tempting to accept every job out of customer loyalty, but it's better to say no than to agree to an unrealistic deadline, or if you are…
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It’s a date
Have you ever wished there was a way to avoid sending inquiries to translators and interpreters who for whatever reason are not available when you need them? Wouldn't it be…
Unwanted distraction
Before there were languages in my life, there was music - which in itself is a language as well, as I'm well aware. So I guess taking the step from…
Great source of EU-related TMs and TBs
Did you know there are free translation memories and termbases available on all kinds of topics related to the EU? You can find them on the ELRC SHARE repository. It…
Standards, standards, standards
I knew that there were standards for technical requirements for interpreting set-ups and translation in general (the BDÜ published a special edition each on the DIN-versions last year - German…
Negotiating successfully
I have mentioned the ATA's Blog for new translators before, and the latest post is a re-post from copyediting.com about negotiating for freelancers and it is really good! It lists…
Post-editing part 2
I had written about post-editing a few weeks ago, ending with the promise to update when something new has happened. Well, it has, although not quite as might have been…
Post-Editing
Ever since machine translation has come to the fore in the translation sphere, another "new" area of activity has also started to show up: post-editing. While I'd heard about this…
The Seven Virtues of the New Translation Era
I recently came across an article on ATA's The Savy Newcomer blog which, although originally published in 1997, is just as relevant (not only for new) translators and interpreters today.…
A little poetry in praise of language diversity
You probably know the story about the Tower of Babel: how humankind, speaking only one language, had come together to build a tower that would reach all the way to…