You’ve decided to go for a freelance career as a translator. You start at full speed: sending CVs, making relevant posts on social networks, showing yourself as an experienced and motivated worker. You begin to receive more and more projects and everything Read more…
If you’re a writer — of books, essays, scripts, blog posts, whatever — you’re familiar with the phenomenon: the blank screen, a looming deadline, and a sinking feeling in your gut that pairs poorly with the jug of coffee you drank earlier. Read more…
The translation process does not only rely upon translators’ linguistic competences. Nowadays, a successful career in translation requires information processing skills and a few special IT skills. In other words, and quoting Susanne J. Jetak and Gary Massey, “[t]his is apparent Read more…
Many of the books you love are translations. Major political events throughout history were only possible because of the existence of interpreters. Every country’s justice system relies on expert linguists who make communication possible between individuals who speak different languages. Read more…
With the proliferation of technology and digital devices, the way companies work and do business has changed dramatically. Digital presence has become compulsory for success, with companies having to produce more online content and thus hire translators. Even though many Read more…
Translators and interpreters around the world seem to fall into two groups: those who think a degree in languages is a must to work (successfully) as a translator/interpreter, and those who consider that anyone with the right amount of work Read more…
This post includes partial results from a survey we conducted in April 2018. Such survey included questions about rates and specialisation fields. We wanted to get a general picture of the translation industry worldwide, for which we gathered 400 answers. Read more…
This post includes partial results from the survey we conducted last month, which included questions about rates and specialties. We wanted to get a general picture of the translation industry worldwide, for which we gathered 400 answers. The respondents include Read more…
As the years go by, our quality of life has been greatly improved by technological innovations. A question commonly asked by many, though, is whether machines will ever make humans redundant. In the translation industry, in particular, the debate has Read more…
Information technologies have significantly changed the ways in which companies work and structure their operations. Access to information (mainly through the Internet) is essential for businesses and organisations, but it isn’t easy to manage. In other words, an increasing number Read more…