Don鈥檛 Get Lost in Translation. Get It Right!
We鈥檝e all seen them: eyebrow-raising 鈥渢ranslations鈥 that leave you either shaking your head or slapping your knee. Just ask Google and you鈥檒l find countless…
Book Review: The Money Book
By Jamie Hartz The Money Book by Joseph D鈥橝gnese and Denise Kiernan had been on my reading list since I received it as a…
Translation and localization in a nutshell
By Marta Chereshnovska (@Martav88) Reblogged from the Translation and l10n for dummies blog听with permission from the author (incl. the image) A lot of said…
Automation Doesn鈥檛 Solve Everything
Six Things You Should Know About Machine Translation Taco Bell鈥檚 return to Japan in 2015 was widely anticipated, but the company鈥檚 launch of its…
How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA: Small Resources that Add Up to Big Benefits
Welcome to the third article in the series How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA. This time, I鈥檒l be talking about…
ATA Urges Continuation of Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan Translators and Interpreters
The 情侣自拍 joins 13 translator and interpreter associations to urge continuation of special immigrant visas for Afghan translators and interpreters. The following…
Certified Translation vs. Certified Translator
What is a Certified Translation? In the United States a certified translation consists of the following three parts: The source-language (original) text The target-language…
Living the Dream? How Freelance Translators Can Become Digital Nomads
Picture yourself newly-arrived on some tropical beach somewhere, or perhaps in a caf茅 in the middle of an exciting, cosmopolitan city. Laptop open in…
Tool Name, Version: MateCat 0.6.6 (February 18, 2016)
Could a free CAT tool like MateCat really be of use to translators? Naomi Sutcliffe de Moraes, chair of ATA鈥檚 Translation and Interpreting Resources…
Taking Advantage of an Opportunity
The story of how one translator taught himself what he needed to know to be able to take advantage of an opportunity. Let me…
An Hourly Fee for Translation?
Before dismissing the idea of charging an hourly rate, it鈥檚 important to examine a few underlying assumptions associated with this practice. Freelance language services…
An Interview with Barbara Inge Karsch, Terminologist & ATA鈥檚 Terminology Committee Chair
Men ever had, and ever will have leave, To coin new words well suited to the age, Words are like leaves, some wither every…