Upcoming classesThis week's topic: Coping with existential dread about the language professionsI've recently fielded questions from numerous freelancers who are feeling existential dread about the language professions. These questions come primarily from people who are exclusively translators … [Read more...] about Existential dread about the language professions: how to cope

My new book, Getting Started as a Freelance Interpreter is now in soft launch; it's officially out June 3, from Tilt Publishing. If you'd like to be entered to win a free copy, join the Training for Translators mailing list here, and you have a chance of winning your choice of a hardcover, … [Read more...] about Enter to win a free copy of Getting Started as a Freelance Interpreter!

Greetings, Training for Translators readers! I hope you're all doing well, and here's what's up with T4T this week. Upcoming classes This week's topic: Ways to self-publish your writing or translations By definition, translators like to write. Lots of interpreters also like to write! And … [Read more...] about Ways to self-publish your writing or translations

This question was submitted by a reader. How do you stop working with a client? Just give them some notice, like a regular job? It's an interesting question, and there are a few ways to answer it, so let's analyze it from a few different angles!If the client is treating you poorly, just quit!This … [Read more...] about How to stop working with a client

It seems like many people in the translation world are doing really well, or really terribly, with very little in between. In this episode of the Training for Translators podcast, I talk about how Q1 of 2025 went for me, along with some observations on what I'm hearing from other people. Listen in … [Read more...] about T4T podcast, episode 14: The first quarter of 2025…best of times, worst of times?