What to ask your client before starting a translation

By The Savvy Newcomer | August 9, 2016

By Oleg Semerikov (@TranslatFamily) Reblogged from the Translators Family blog with permission from the author (incl. the image) Every translation job is different – that…

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The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting: A Multifaceted Resource

By The Savvy Newcomer | August 2, 2016

By Helen Eby One of my resources is The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting, edited by Holly Mikkelson and Renée Jourdenais. Its twenty-seven chapters cover…

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Entering the Big Game

By The Savvy Newcomer | July 26, 2016

How I started out only working for direct clients in my target language country, Sweden Background I decided to study to be a translator…

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Multilingual profiles on LinkedIn

By The Savvy Newcomer | July 19, 2016

By Catherine Christaki (@LinguaGreca) LinkedIn was launched in 2003 and is currently the third most popular social network in terms of unique monthly visitors,…

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Review of the ALC 2015 Industry Survey©

By The Savvy Newcomer | July 12, 2016

By Helen Eby Reblogged from the ATA Interpreters Division blog with permission from the author (incl. the image) Founded in 2002, the Association of Language…

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Analyzing the Message: Eugene Nida on language and culture

By The Savvy Newcomer | July 5, 2016

By Helen and Cynthia Eby Both translators and interpreters take a message across from one language and culture to another. They must communicate the…

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Networking at a Conference: Chris Durban on and off stage

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 28, 2016

By Cynthia Eby & Bianca Dasso This April, I attended the VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Traducción e Interpretación: El traductor después del mañana (6th…

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6-Step Strategy to Translators Visibility

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 21, 2016

By Carlos Djomo (@carlosdjomo) Reblogged from the Adventures in Technical Translation blog with permission from the author (incl. the image) Many budding translators usually struggle…

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Book Review: The Money Book

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 14, 2016

By Jamie Hartz The Money Book by Joseph D’Agnese and Denise Kiernan had been on my reading list since I received it as a…

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Translation and localization in a nutshell

By The Savvy Newcomer | June 7, 2016

By Marta Chereshnovska (@Martav88) Reblogged from the Translation and l10n for dummies blog with permission from the author (incl. the image) A lot of said…

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How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA: Small Resources that Add Up to Big Benefits

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 31, 2016

Welcome to the third article in the series How to Have a Super First Year in the ATA. This time, I’ll be talking about…

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Living the Dream? How Freelance Translators Can Become Digital Nomads

By The Savvy Newcomer | May 24, 2016

Picture yourself newly-arrived on some tropical beach somewhere, or perhaps in a café in the middle of an exciting, cosmopolitan city. Laptop open in…

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