How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, Third Edition

How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, Third Edition
Author: Corinne McKay
Publisher: Two Rat Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780578170077

The original how-to guide for people who want to launch and run a successful freelance translation business, fully revised and updated! With over 10,000 copies in print, How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator has become a go-to reference for beginning and experienced translators alike. The fully revised third edition includes nearly 250 pages of practical tips on writing a translation-targeted resume and cover letter, preparing a marketing plan, marketing your services to agencies and direct client, avoiding common pitfalls, and more! New in this edition: an all-new technology chapter by translation technology expert Jost Zetzsche, and more detailed information on ways to market to direct clients.

Homesick

Homesick
Author: Jennifer Croft
Publisher: Charco Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1913867323

The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy's first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of 15 her life changes drastically and with tragic results. "Croft moves quickly between powerful scenes that made me think about my own sisters. I love how the language displays a child's consciousness. A haunting accomplishment." Kali Fajardo-Anstine

In Translation

In Translation
Author: Esther Allen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0231535023

The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine balance between scholarly and creative expression. The volume provides students and professionals with much-needed guidance on technique and style, while affirming for all readers the cultural, political, and aesthetic relevance of translation. These essays focus on a diverse group of languages, including Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as frequently encountered European languages, such as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Russian. Contributors speak on craft, aesthetic choices, theoretical approaches, and the politics of global cultural exchange, touching on the concerns and challenges that currently affect translators working in an era of globalization. Responding to the growing popularity of translation programs, literature in translation, and the increasing need to cultivate versatile practitioners, this anthology serves as a definitive resource for those seeking a modern understanding of the craft.

Translation at Work

Translation at Work
Author: Harold John Cook
Publisher: Brill
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Communication in medicine
ISBN: 9789004362741

Medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the activities of other places through processes of alteration once known as translatio. Recognition of differences provoked creative responses in Japan, the imperial court, and Enlightenment Europe.

Translation as a Profession

Translation as a Profession
Author: Roger Chriss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781430301332

Written by a professional translator with 14 years of industry experience, this book shows you where the opportunities are for freelance or corporate employment, how to find them, and make the most of them, along with tips and tricks to smooth your career in the translation industry. #xD;#xD;The companion web site (www.languagerealm.com) and blog (languagerealm.blogspot.com) keep the content current and provide sample and reference materials for newcomers and experienced translators alike.

The Magic Misfits

The Magic Misfits
Author: Neil Patrick Harris
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743585349

The first in a funny and magical new children's books series from Emmy award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris. ‘I read this book with excitement, delight, and the increasing suspicion that it was going to make me disappear.' Lemony Snicket, author of the bestselling series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions This book contains a BIG SECRET. Read on if you dare … Do you believe in magic? Carter doesn’t. He knows magic tricks are just that – tricks. And as a street magician he’s also pretty good at them. But then Carter runs away from his conman uncle and he finds himself alone and in danger from dastardly carnival ringleader, B.B. Bosso. He could really use some magic now … A chance encounter with the mysterious Mr Dante Vernon leads Carter to a magic shop, where he teams up with five other like-minded kids and the MAGIC MISFITS are born! Can the gang use their magical talents to save the day and stop B.B. stealing a priceless diamond? And now for the BIG SECRET … inside this book you will find a treasure trove of tips, codes and stage tricks that will help YOU join the Magic Misfits and make some magic of your own. (BUT DON'T TELL ANYONE.) Perfect for children aged 8 to 12 years old and fans of Lemony Snicket, David Walliams … and magic!

Why Translation Matters

Why Translation Matters
Author: Edith Grossman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300163037

"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"."--Jacket.

Thoughts on Translation

Thoughts on Translation
Author: Corinne McKay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780578107356

Corinne McKay's blog Thoughts on Translation is one of the web's liveliest gathering places for freelance translators...now available in book format Wondering whether to charge by the word or by the hour? How to receive payments from clients in foreign countries? How to write a translation-targeted resume? It's all in here, in chunks that take just a few minutes to read. Corinne McKay is also the author of "How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator," the original career how-to guide for freelance translators, with over 5,000 copies in print. Her practical, down-to-earth tips are based on her own experience launching and running a successful freelance translation business after a first career as a high school teacher.

The Saxon Thief

The Saxon Thief
Author: Martin Turner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973833765

"By hook or by bishop's crook, Ventianus will see him dead by nightfall." While Cuthbert and Eadmund pursue a thief through the deserted streets of an enemy city, others plot to turn their help into harm and their honour into shame. Outwitted and outnumbered, they stumble into a nest of conspiracies that may send Britain crashing back into the bloodshed and chaos from which it just emerged. But Eadmund has more in the game than Cuthbert knows, and deciding who to trust may become the most dangerous choice of all.Every treasure has a secret, every saint has a past.