Training for Translators

Classes for translators and interpreters

Links


Corinne McKay

Coffee break links

Here are a couple of interesting links for your coffee break reading:

  • Get Rich Slowly on How much house do you need?. As a small house dweller (we have our family of three and my office in an 1,150 square foot ranch with no plans to move or expand) and an envier of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, I really enjoyed this post.
  • White House Notebook on Language skills on display. Whatever your political views, I think it’s impressive that President Obama has placed so much emphasis on language skills during his current China trip. He went to the trouble of greeting his town hall attendees in the local dialect, had the U.S. Ambassador introduce him “in polished Chinese” and even acknowledged his own linguistic disadvantage by telling the audience, “I’m very sorry that my Chinese is not as good as your English, but I am looking forward to this chance to have a dialogue.”

    • Happy reading!


Corinne McKay

Translation makes the front page of the LA Times

Having recently joined the ATA Public Relations Committee, I was excited to receive an e-mail this morning about a story on the front page of today’s Los Angeles Times. “Demand grows for niche translators” profiles German to English waste management translator Abigail “Trash Girl” Dahlberg and features extensive quotes from ATA President Nicholas Hartmann and national media spokesman Kevin Hendzel. Congratulations to reporter Tina Susman for researching this story so thoroughly…it’s exciting to see our sometimes publicity-shy profession on the front page of a major paper!


Corinne McKay

Links: ATA social media presentation

At last week’s ATA conference, Eve Bodeux, Michael Wahlster and I co-presented “Web 2.0 Tools for Translation Industry Professionals”. Following are the links that Eve and I mentioned in our portions. You can find Michael’s links at http://snurl.com/sbuoq.
Corinne’s links:
Technorati, a blog search engine
Google Reader, a browser-based feed reader
Blogging on bilingualism
Musings from an overworked translator
The greener word
Naked translations
Masked translator
Essential project management
Translation times
There’s something about translation
Translate this!
Speaking of translation
WordPress
TypePad
Blogger

Eve’s links:
Bodeux International
Facebook
LinkedIn
LinkedIn for Mobile
Twitter
Ning
YouTube
Flickr
Viadeo


Corinne McKay

OT: Iconic photos website

If you’re looking for some coffee break viewing, check out Iconic Photos, a website of “Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos” that run the gamut from haunting to hilarious. The background notes that go along with the photos are also really interesting. My husband found this site last night; I was working late and he was keeping me company in the office, and the entry that caught his eye was Mitterand’s Funeral, a photo of former French President François Mitterand’s wife, longtime mistress and out of wedlock daughter standing before his coffin. Another must-see is Nixon meets Elvis which is (who knew?) the most requested reproduction from the U.S. National Archives, surpassing both the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I’ll let you choose whether or not to look at the more graphic (mostly war-related, not X-rated) posts on the site, but some non-graphic images I found interesting are Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, Shooting the apple and Lindbergh lands in Paris.