Weekly favorites (Dec 24-30)
***Happy New Year!***
Every week we share many interesting blog posts and online articles on translation, interpreting, languages, freelancing, writing, social media, business and travel. If you missed any of the great content that was shared via Twitter last week, here is your chance to catch up. The content is listed in categories based on the topic, so just scroll down to find your favorite and enjoy reading!
Translation, Interpreting & Languages
This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Words of the Year, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, movies
Seven Golden Rules for Freelance Translators Who Want To Age Gracefully
Five steps to planning a great sales/marketing strategy for 2013 (first three)
New “Studio Steps” series: first post on SDL Trados Studio help sources
Bite the wax tadpole: What bad translations cost in dollars (and sense)
How to start a Successful Career in Science and Technical Translation
Year-End Roundup: The Names, Logos, Words, and Maps of 2012
Trados Studio Manual – now with its own blog and Facebook page
Vivre avec un traducteur : quel conjoint de traducteur êtes-vous ?
A last-minute Christmas gift for spelling-challenged book lovers
Xbench 3.0 – Now in public beta with some major new features
Whispering and the Origin of Simultaneous Interpreting (cont.)
I’m Fabio Said, Freelance Translator, and This Is How I Work
On translation quality standards (post-conference thoughts)
Learning a foreign language: five most common mistakes
Signs of a future translator – How to learn languages faster
How Translation Can Boost Your Website’s Bottom Line
Studio Steps: where to find help on SDL Trados Studio
How to make time to write in your Translation Blog
Change of Language, Change of Personality? Part II
Bilingualism, iPads and the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Is Translation Memory Yesterday’s Technology?
Thoughts on Freelance Translation: Marketing
Language Games You Wanted For Christmas
Lettre ouverte au père Noël des traducteurs…
Book of the Month: The 5-Minute Linguist
Openings for UN interpreters & translators
That’s Why They Pay Me The Big Bucks
Thoughts on Freelance Translation: Rates
Increasing our competence as translators
Understanding the Translation Buyer
Interview of Oleksandr Pysaryuk
2012 UK-to-US WotY: bollocks
The Best of 2012 on Intralingo
The Translator’s Subjectivity
7 Packaging Label Errors
Useful web tools (part 3)
100 Days of Interpreting
Words of the Year 2012
Working with Packages
Localization mistakes
The Gift of Language
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
The Most Common Grammar Gaffes Writers Make (and How To Avoid Them)
Build a Strong Yearly Marketing Plan for Your Business
12 Gifts and Goodies for Writers
Social media, Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
Why I No Longer Follow Back Every Single Person Who Follows Me on Twitter
Track the Potential Clients You Want to Work With
7 Tips for Hearing More and Doing More
Holiday gifts for designers
Miscellaneous
We’re Alive! Why The Doomsday Prediction Was False [Infographic]
25 Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers To Brighten Up Your Desktop
To Please or Not to Please, That is the Question
New Years Eve in Times Square 2012/2013
23 iconic lighthouses around the world
15 of the UK’s most beautiful islands
The weirdest Christmas traditions
25 Serene Winter Water Scenes
Which blog post or article inspired you this week? Share in the comments section below so we can add your links to next week’s list!
