Greetings, Training for Translators readers! December’s master class, Breaking into the subtitling market, is open for registration! On December 11, guest instructor Molly Yurick will teach a two-hour master class for beginning and aspiring subtitlers and audiovisual translators, based on her own experience re-training as a subtitler during the COVID pandemic. This class always gets […]
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Nudging dormant clients: it worked on me!
Greetings, Training for Translators readers! I hope you’re all doing well! Here’s a resource recommendation for you. One of my favorite freelance business bloggers, Jennifer Goforth Gregory, just launched a marketing newsletter for freelancers, called GoForth and Freelance. It’s free, and I highly recommend it. Jennifer writes an amazing blog and newsletter for freelance content […]
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Greetings, Training for Translators subscribers! I’m headed to Miami today, for the 64th annual American Translators Association conference, and I’m excited to see some of you there! If you want to get a jump on next month’s master classes, I’m teaching How to prepare for (and pass!) an interpreting exam, and I’m teaching Breaking into […]
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I’m the guest on this week’s episode of Smart Habits for Translators (Madalena Sanchez Zampaulo and Veronika Demichelis’ really awesome podcast about the language professions!) Madalena and Veronika interviewed me about smart habits for taking a workcation. My husband and I spent the month of July in Fernie, British Columbia (a small town in the […]
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Greetings, readers! Don’t forget to sign up for our second master class of the year, Editing and proofreading for into-English translators, taught by Karen Tkaczyk on September 29. This three-hour class always gets rave reviews, and will teach you processes and tools that you can start using right away. Past participants tell us that it […]
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