Wiktionary defines sticker shock as "Disgust, shock or fright upon learning the price of an item offered for sale," and this roughly describes the reaction of many would-be translation buyers when they learn the price of a professional translation. This leaves the professional translator with a … [Read more...] about Potential clients and sticker shock
A positive and a negative
Happy Monday! To start the week off, here's some positive and negative news from the language world: Positive: I was just listening to NPR's Talk of the Nation while eating lunch, and today's segment featured an interview with NPR's longtime (and now retiring) war correspondent, Anne Garrels. … [Read more...] about A positive and a negative
Next session of "Getting started as a freelance translator" starts April 12
The next session of my online course Getting Started as a Freelance Translator starts April 12 and registration is open on my website. I've been running this course for about four years to help beginning translators launch successful freelance businesses. During the course, we cover topics such as … [Read more...] about Next session of "Getting started as a freelance translator" starts April 12
How to hide or delete a moribund blog
One of the plus/minus factors in the social media universe is the immortality of material that you post on the web. If you write an ill-advised comment on someone else's blog, it's there forever (unless you convince the blogger to remove it). However, the same isn't true of a blog you write … [Read more...] about How to hide or delete a moribund blog
Some links for your reading pleasure
Thoughts on Translation has been on three continents in the last two weeks, so we'll let some other translation bloggers do the talking. Fortunately the translation blogosphere has been alive with ideas lately, here are a few that I found interesting: Two posts from Kevin Lossner over at … [Read more...] about Some links for your reading pleasure