Greetings, Training for Translators readers! I hope you’re all enjoying the change of seasons in your various corners of the world (although it’s still snowing here in Colorado!!). Here’s what’s happening this week: Upcoming class for Spanish interpreters This week’s topic: a lightning round of reader questions! In the past few months, I’ve received a bunch […]
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T4T podcast, episode 13: “I’m not making enough money!”
In this episode, I take a look at three ways to not earn enough money as a freelance translator or interpreter: …and how to handle each of these situations! Links mentioned in this episode You can subscribe to Training for Translators in your favorite podcast app, or listen below!
Continue ReadingMaster class next week: Translating and interpreting for the international development sector
If you’re interested in translating or interpreting for the international development sector, join me and Meghan McCallum on Tuesday, April 15 for a two-hour master class! Registration is $75 and includes the recording. We’ll discuss: We have a good group signed up and there’s room for you!
Continue Reading2025 Q1: The best of times, the worst of times?
Now that the first quarter of 2025 has wrapped up, we all have some data on how things are going in the current, pretty turbulent economic environment. My take: For most people, it’s either the best of times, or the worst of times, with not a whole lot in between. Lately, when I talk to other […]
Continue ReadingPractical ways to improve the quality of your translations
Translation: hot right now? That sounds like an odd way to put it, but…my translation work has been stable (not up, not down) for the past two years or so, until this past quarter (Q1 of 2025) when, all of a sudden, I made $10,000 more from translation than in the first quarter of 2024. […]
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