Training for Translators

Classes for translators and interpreters


Corinne McKay

Spanish Edition of Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies

Congratulations to English > Spanish translator Rafael Gomez-Cabrero on his newly-published Spanish edition of my book, Finding and Marketing to Translation Agencies. I’m excited to see this book coming to life in other languages!

If you’d be interested in translating this book into a language other than Spanish, or if you’d like to translate How to Succeed As a Freelance Translator into a language other than Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian or Russian (the rights to those languages are already sold), drop me a line at corinne@translatewrite.com.


Corinne McKay

New podcast episode: What we’re reading

In this episode of Speaking of Translation, Eve and Corinne discuss a favorite topic among translators: books, and what we’re reading: what genres we enjoy, how we make time for reading, how we choose new books, what formats we enjoy and don’t enjoy reading or listening to, how we track what we read, and book recommendations for our listeners!

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Our book recommendations (we are deliberately not including links, so that you can purchase them from the outlet of your choice!)

  • Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters by Vanessa Finney
  • Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • My Life in France by Julia Child
  • Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
  • This Close to Okay: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
  • It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
  • French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter
  • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Humans, by Brandon Stanton
  • The Translator, by Nina Schuyler
  • Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • L’Arabe du futur/The Arab of the Future, by Riad Sattouf
  • Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light (Henry VIII trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
  • A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
  • Icebound, by Andrea Pitzer
  • Good Words Fast, by Oliver Dirs
  • Pancakes in Paris, by Craig Carlson
  • All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

Listen on the audio player below, download the audio file here, or subscribe to Speaking of Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.


Corinne McKay

April courses: early bird deadline coming up

The early registration deadline for April’s four-week courses is coming up! Sign up by March 26 (and see the course pages for additional discounts) and classes start on April 5:

  • Direct marketing to direct clients, with Sarah Silva. Sarah teaches a multi-step system for marketing to direct clients, even if you can’t meet them in person, based on her own (pretty amazing!) results marketing to direct clients in Germany.
  • Editing and proofreading for into-English translators, with Karen Tkaczyk. This course has sold out multiple times, and always earns rave reviews from participants: learn how to create trustworthy systems for editing your own work and the work of other writers or translators.

Hope to see you there!


Corinne McKay

Choosing an interpreter headset

As part of Michelle Hof’s (really awesome!) interpreting technology course in the Glendon/York Master’s program I’m in this year, we all had to prepare a final project on some aspect of terptech. I did mine on how to choose a headset, and I got really (perhaps overly!) into this seemingly simple topic. I prepared a public version of the presentation, and I hope it’s helpful to anyone who’s in the headset selection process:

How to choose an interpreter headset


Corinne McKay

Speaking of Translation: Self-care and mental health in the pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, self-care and mental health are increasingly important to us as freelancers, moms, partners, and friends. In this episode of Speaking of Translation, Eve and Corinne discuss:

-what self-care means, and why it’s not selfish
-tools and strategies we’ve used to stay safe and stay sane during the pandemic
-self-care and mental health maintenance techniques we’d recommend to our listeners
-what to do if you or someone you care about needs professional mental health help

Links mentioned in this episode:
-Eve’s Global Reads book club
-The fitness tracker apps Corinne uses: Fitbod and My Fitness Pal
-A couple of guided meditations to try: Tess Whitehurst’s meditation to clear limiting beliefs, Jeannine McGlade’s Five minute meditations podcast, and Yoga with Adriene’s Seven-minute meditation to start the day
-If you or someone you love is having a mental health crisis, you can call (in English or Spanish, in the US) the SAMHSA national helpline 24 hours a day: 1-800-662-4357

Download the audio file here, and don’t forget that you can subscribe to Speaking of Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher!