Translation Agency Tips: #41: Handling Feedback on your Translation
Translating for clients is often very rewarding but it can be hard to get there when you’ve just started working in the industry. Once you’re armed with the necessary...
Translation Agency Tips: #40: Professional Safety and Identity Theft
Agony aunt I am not, but over the years I’ve read many reports from translation agencies: “Every day we receive around 50 translator applications which are patently fake. They...
Novels in Translation: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
In this new blog series, we’ll be taking a look at some famous novels which have been translated into and from the English language, beginning with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...
Translation Agency Tips: #32 IT Problems
When you work with computers on a day to day basis, sooner or later you are bound to experience some IT problems, and you can guarantee it will be...
Translation Agency Tips: #29 You've been offered a transcription assignment, what should you do next?
The first step on your transcription assignment will be to check over the audio file you’ve been sent, to make sure the material is in your mother tongue and...
Translation Agency Tips: #26 Formatting Translations
When working on a translation project, we may sometimes find it difficult to deal with the formatting of our documents, especially when dealing with complex layouts. It is however...