Comments on: About/Contact http://thoughtsontranslation.com ...the translation industry and becoming a translator Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Corinne McKay http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-3345 Corinne McKay Wed, 05 May 2010 15:37:27 +0000 #comment-3345 Thanks for your comment; glad you are enjoying the blog! Thanks for your comment; glad you are enjoying the blog!

]]> By: TB Peritz http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-3344 TB Peritz Wed, 05 May 2010 13:50:23 +0000 #comment-3344 Thank you so much for this blog! I have been a freelance French to English translator myself for over 5 years now and wish I had had a blog like this to accompany me on the journey starting out. Great work! Thank you so much for this blog! I have been a freelance French to English translator myself for over 5 years now and wish I had had a blog like this to accompany me on the journey starting out.

Great work!

]]> By: Marcia http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-3127 Marcia Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:13:58 +0000 #comment-3127 Hi Corinne, Just want to say thank you so much for sharing! I was searching information on how to get started with my Spanish/English freelancing and came across your blog. It is truly wonderful...almost everything I need to know. Thanks again! Marcia Hi Corinne,

Just want to say thank you so much for sharing! I was searching information on how to get started with my Spanish/English freelancing and came across your blog. It is truly wonderful…almost everything I need to know.

Thanks again!
Marcia

]]> By: Katherine Osgood http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2892 Katherine Osgood Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:20:36 +0000 #comment-2892 Hi Corinne! I love your blog! I'm studying for an MA in Translation Studies (Arabic-English) and just ordered your book about getting started as a freelancer! The information you are providing is invaluable to beginners like me! Thanks so much for all your hard work to help others! Katherine :) Hi Corinne!

I love your blog! I’m studying for an MA in Translation Studies (Arabic-English) and just ordered your book about getting started as a freelancer! The information you are providing is invaluable to beginners like me!

Thanks so much for all your hard work to help others!
Katherine :)

]]> By: Primi passi da freelancer « a piè di pagina http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2485 Primi passi da freelancer « a piè di pagina Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:07:38 +0000 #comment-2485 [...] parla in questa intervista Corinne McKay, autrice del blog Thoughts on Translation, autrice di un libro e docente di un corso [...] [...] parla in questa intervista Corinne McKay, autrice del blog Thoughts on Translation, autrice di un libro e docente di un corso [...]

]]> By: Uma Tadvalkar http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2429 Uma Tadvalkar Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:19:18 +0000 #comment-2429 Hi, Corrinne I myslef am a Freelance Gr/Eng translator. I just now came to know aabout your book. I specialize in IT, technical engineering Medical and sometimes I do finanance. I want get the ATA certification. Where can I find the study material as I am residing in India. Do you have any clue...I will read your book and again get back to you Thanks Uma Hi, Corrinne

I myslef am a Freelance Gr/Eng translator. I just now came to know aabout your book. I specialize in IT, technical engineering Medical and sometimes I do finanance. I want get the ATA certification. Where can I find the study material as I am residing in India. Do you have any clue…I will read your book and again get back to you

Thanks
Uma

]]> By: Corinne McKay http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2305 Corinne McKay Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:09:28 +0000 #comment-2305 Hi "other" Corinne McKay, and I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. Interestingly enough, I just met an English to French translator who lives in Regina; if you e-mail me directly I could give you her contact information. Personally I think that doing conversation practice with a native speaker is the best way to keep up your skills. I do this now and it's the best $45 per week that I've spent on my language skills. Not to sound superior, but I find that "advanced/expert" conversation courses/groups are normally geared toward people who speak good "school" French and have not lived in French-speaking countries, while on the other hand if I attend a gathering of native French speakers, I'm intimidated by just jumping into the conversation. So, I find that one-on-one with a native speaker is perfect and it has *really* improved my speaking skills. Boulder is probably a little less remote than Saskatchewan, but not that much! You can do it! Hi “other” Corinne McKay, and I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. Interestingly enough, I just met an English to French translator who lives in Regina; if you e-mail me directly I could give you her contact information. Personally I think that doing conversation practice with a native speaker is the best way to keep up your skills. I do this now and it’s the best $45 per week that I’ve spent on my language skills. Not to sound superior, but I find that “advanced/expert” conversation courses/groups are normally geared toward people who speak good “school” French and have not lived in French-speaking countries, while on the other hand if I attend a gathering of native French speakers, I’m intimidated by just jumping into the conversation. So, I find that one-on-one with a native speaker is perfect and it has *really* improved my speaking skills. Boulder is probably a little less remote than Saskatchewan, but not that much! You can do it!

]]> By: Corinne McKay http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2304 Corinne McKay Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:05:16 +0000 #comment-2304 Thanks, Christina! I don't know that I'm always great and interesting, but I try (just don't ask my daughter!). Best of luck with your business, and feel free to send me any questions you would like to submit for a blog post. Thanks, Christina! I don’t know that I’m always great and interesting, but I try (just don’t ask my daughter!). Best of luck with your business, and feel free to send me any questions you would like to submit for a blog post.

]]> By: Christina http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2303 Christina Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:10:09 +0000 #comment-2303 Hi Corinne, thank you so so much for this awesome blog. I'm a 22-year-old freelance German/English translator and until a few weeks ago I was totally clueless about how to get started. Not anymore now thanks to you. Your blog is full of interesting posts about anything a translator might need to know. I never got any better advice, not even from the countless German translators that used to teach me. You are like a coach and I wish I knew you personally because it seems like you are a great and interesting person to be around. I am waiting on a copy of your book and I am sure that it will help me out quite a bit. In the meantime I will just be extremely jealeous of your wonderful resume :-) Love your blog!! Thanks so much Christina Hi Corinne,

thank you so so much for this awesome blog. I’m a 22-year-old freelance German/English translator and until a few weeks ago I was totally clueless about how to get started. Not anymore now thanks to you. Your blog is full of interesting posts about anything a translator might need to know. I never got any better advice, not even from the countless German translators that used to teach me. You are like a coach and I wish I knew you personally because it seems like you are a great and interesting person to be around.

I am waiting on a copy of your book and I am sure that it will help me out quite a bit. In the meantime I will just be extremely jealeous of your wonderful resume :-)

Love your blog!! Thanks so much

Christina

]]> By: Corinne McKay http://thoughtsontranslation.com/about/#comment-2190 Corinne McKay Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:22:42 +0000 #comment-2190 Hello, Corinne I was googling myself (hmmm, that sounds dirty), when I found your website. I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada, trying to improve my French language skills. I have not taken a class for a year and have just started a new job where none of my coworkers are French. I was feeling a bit disheartened but for some reason, just seeing your/my name and reading about your business, I thought that Colorado can't be that different from Saskatchewan for finding places to practice and innovative, interesting ways to maintain language skills. Now that I look at my message, it would have been better to write it in French! Any cool, fun suggestions for language retention? Corinne Hello, Corinne

I was googling myself (hmmm, that sounds dirty), when I found your website. I’m in Saskatchewan, Canada, trying to improve my French language skills. I have not taken a class for a year and have just started a new job where none of my coworkers are French. I was feeling a bit disheartened but for some reason, just seeing your/my name and reading about your business, I thought that Colorado can’t be that different from Saskatchewan for finding places to practice and innovative, interesting ways to maintain language skills.

Now that I look at my message, it would have been better to write it in French! Any cool, fun suggestions for language retention?

Corinne

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