Thoughts on Translation has been finishing up a few deadlines this week and prepping for the Colorado Translators Association‘s holiday party, so we’ll let some other bloggers do the talking. Here are some posts that caught my eye this week: About Translation on making a dual monitor out of your laptop and one desktop monitor. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Some links to round out the week
Posted in Links on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Reader survey: the best and worst things about your CAT tools
Posted in Reader survey, Technology on January 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In preparation for the second edition of How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, I’m revising the chapter on translation technology. I’d like to include some “best and worst” observations from translators who use various translation environment tools, so if you are interested in having your comments included (anonymously) in this chapter, please submit them. [...]
The five minute task list
Posted in Productivity on January 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Most of us who work from home feel guilty about wasting time in large increments, but the same isn’t always true of small increments. If I finish work early or a project is canceled and I have a few “found” hours of time, I nearly always switch to another productive task such as working on [...]
How the media is covering the Haitian earthquake
Posted in Off topic, tagged earthquake, Haiti, NPR on January 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m an unabashed NPR junkie, and like many people I have been glued to the radio this week while listening to news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. I wish that I could speak or read Haitian Kreyol, but like many other FR<>EN translators I did take the step of applying to Translators Without Borders. [...]
Propose a session for the 2010 ATA conference
Posted in Announcements, tagged ATA, ATA conference, Denver on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 2010 conference of the American Translators Association will be held this coming October in Denver, Colorado (and the venue, the Hyatt Regency Denver, is really, really beautiful!). The form to propose a session for the conference is now available on the ATA website and the deadline is March 8, so get those ideas flowing! [...]
Theories about direct clients
Posted in Clients, Marketing, tagged direct clients, finding direct clients, Marketing on January 14, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Recently, a reader posted this comment on my Wrapping up 2009 post: “I just wonder how one goes about getting direct clients. It seems ideal, but it also seems like a hurdle to get over, that many of us have not learned how to do.” I think that a lot of translators feel this way: [...]
Using image searches for translation research
Posted in Technology, tagged Google Images, image search, images on January 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When you’re doing research for a translation, don’t restrict yourself to searching only on text sites. Image searches are really useful as well, and sometimes more so than text searches. Following are a couple of examples I’ve come across lately. I recently translated a list of advertising keywords for a fashion company. I always find [...]
Wrapping up 2009
Posted in Freelancing on January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Whether you look back on 2009 as an annus horribilis or a welcome change from the status quo, it’s time to take stock of the past year and move on. The nature of 2009 depends on who you ask; I’ve spoken with freelancers who say they’ve never been busier, freelancers who say that their income [...]
Links: video interview and code talker cartoon
Posted in Humor, Links, tagged Alexander Totz, Eve Bodeux, Judy Jenner, Navajo code talkers on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and happy 2010 to everyone out in the blogosphere! After some much-enjoyed vacation time spent skiing, cooking and relaxing, Thoughts on Translation is ready for another year of posts. To start things off: At the ATA conference in New York this fall, French>English audiovisual translator Alexander Totz did video interviews with Judy Jenner of [...]
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Corinne McKay is an ATA-certified French to English translator specializing in international development, law and non-fiction books. She launched Thoughts on Translation in February, 2008 as a way to connect and share ideas with freelance translators around the world.
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