Translation Scams Reloaded
Taking steps to safeguard your identity and minimize the risk from scammers is not as difficult as it sounds, but it takes diligence.
What Exactly Is a Technical Freelance Translator?
by Jost Zetzsche I was asked some time back to write a book chapter about freelance translators and translation technology. Not surprisingly, I started…
Arugula鈥擱ehashed: The Mean Streets of Culinary Translation
After 35 years as a translator, these two things I know: we translators love words, and we love a good meal. The more exotic…
(Not-so) Quick No-Nonsense QA/QC for Legal Translation
Reblogged from the听Gostalks blog, with permission This is to give you some pointers as to what and how to check for, hence a sort…
Inbox Zero: Forever in pursuit of 鈥淣o new mail!鈥
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing those three little words: 鈥淣o new mail!鈥 My Gmail app announces, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e all done!鈥, and I especially…
How to identify and avoid translation scammers
It is an unfortunate truth that translation scammers abound. Many of us receive dozens of emails per week that qualify as translation scams鈥 some…
From the President: Continuity and Renewal within ATA
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay ATA has many strengths鈥攊ncluding every one of our 10,500 members鈥攁nd one of our greatest is certainly…
Does In-Ear Speech-to-Speech Translation Technology Really Work?
A Review of the Lingmo Translate One2One I鈥檝e been testing and writing about interpreting technology since 2015. Until now, all the technologies I鈥檝e reviewed…
Four Truths about Court Interpreting
Both my interpreting students and beginning court interpreter colleagues pursing certification ask me regularly what it鈥檚 really like to be a working court interpreter.…
The Care and Feeding of Graders
You can find a lot of information about ATA鈥檚 Certification Program on the website and in past articles of The ATA Chronicle, but not…
Letter to the Editor
Risto Siikarla鈥檚 Letter to the Editor | March鈥揂pril While it鈥檚 true that 鈥渞aising rates will negatively affect the volume of translation requests,鈥 any translator…
A Conversation with Man Booker International Prize Winner Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen, a past ATA Student Translation Award Recipient, has come a long way since her student days at Indiana University. In 2017, she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize, along with David Grossman, for the translation of Grossman鈥檚 A Horse Walks into a Bar.