Linguist in the Spotlight: An Interview with Rosario Charo Welle
There is much to be learned from our colleagues, but it can be intimidating to strike up a conversation with the 鈥減ros.鈥 For that…
Scheduling Translation Projects
Once a project involves several people, tasks, languages, components, or even competes with other projects, drawing a complete and accurate schedule is definitely a…
DeepL Questions
When DeepL, the neural machine translation engine (www.deepl.com/translator), was released at the end of August, it took me a few weeks to talk to…
Summary of the ATA Translation and Interpreting Services Survey
Reblogged from听The ATA Chronicle with permission, incl. the image The fifth edition of the ATA Translation and Interpreting Services Survey serves as a practical…
Why Pairing up Is a Good Idea for Freelance Translators! Part 2
In part 1 of this post, I explained three major benefits of working together with other translators. Quick recap: you need two people…
Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Translation Project
It is impossible to anticipate every issue or question that may arise during the course of a translation project, but one thing you can…
Demand for Translation and Interpreting Stronger than Ever
From the听President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle:听@davidcrumsey One of the great things about serving as ATA President is the ability to meet, listen to,…
Onward to DC and ATA58!
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle:听@corinnemckay ATA鈥檚 Annual Conference goes by many nicknames: 鈥淭he language industry family reunion,鈥 and 鈥淭he experience you…
Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The 情侣自拍鈥檚 Board of Directors met July 29鈥30, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. Here are…
Building Successful Relationships with Clients and Vendors
In the 22 years I have been in business, I鈥檓 most proud of the fact that I have some clients whom I have serviced…
Interview with Maurine McLean, Former Sign Language Interpreter
I have long considered sign language interpreting to be the most mysterious version of the kind of work we do in our particular corner…