This is post #4 in my ongoing series of questions from the webinar on "Getting Started as a Freelance Translator" that I presented for the American Translators Association in December. A participant asks: For a translator who doesn't use CAT tools, what is the average turnaround/output in words per … [Read more...] about Webinar question: how many words per day?
Book review: The Entrepreneurial Linguist
I've been meaning to review Judy and Dagmar Jenner's book The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation since before this fall's ATA conference...fortunately I took notes when I read it over the summer, so here we go! The Entrepreneurial Linguist is available … [Read more...] about Book review: The Entrepreneurial Linguist
Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts Monday
The next session of my online course Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts this coming Monday, January 10. I have two or three spots left for anyone who'd like to join us! This is a six week course on business practices (not translation technique) for people with little or no translation … [Read more...] about Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts Monday
Thanks for a great year of blogging!
WordPress sent me a summary of Thoughts on Translation's statistics for 2010; here it is! Thanks to everyone who makes this blog so much fun to write! Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 98,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit … [Read more...] about Thanks for a great year of blogging!
Happy 2011: Are bad habits a form of self-protection?
Happy 2011 to everyone out there in the translation blogosphere! To start the year off, here's a very interesting interview I came across: sports writer Bill Simmons interviewing New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell. Both Simmons and Gladwell draw some interesting parallels between sports and the … [Read more...] about Happy 2011: Are bad habits a form of self-protection?