Translation Favorites (Feb 19-25)
Every week we share on Twitter many interesting blog posts and online articles on translation, interpreting, language, as well as freelancing, blogging, business and social media. If you missed any of the great content we shared 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! You can read the Weekly Favorites from previous weeks here.
If you read any fabulous posts that we missed, let us know in the Comments section or email us at info@linguagreca.com so we can add your links to next week’s list.
Translation, Interpreting & Languages
SDL Trados Studio 2011 Preview: Can It Convince Trados 2007 Faithfuls?
How Much Of An Issue Do You Think Bad Spelling And Grammar Is?
Top 10 misconceptions about translation and the translation profession
Business School for Translators: marketing, management and money!
Translator/interpreter becomes top profession for 2012
Guide de style à l’usage des traducteurs, rédacteurs et réviseurs
The invisible art of translation deserves wider recognition
Britishisms: cataloging how they’re infecting American English
The future is here (Dr. Sharon O’Brien’s presentation)
Emotions in More than One Language
Translator’s productivity (part 3) — “TEnTs”
The future is here (artful manipulation)
Quality for Translators (5 useful tips)
Business School for Translators?
40 Unforgivable Spelling Mistakes
Fees: to publish or not to publish? (1)
Serial commas: Do you, or don’t you?
The ten essentials of freelance translation
Four facets of marketing for freelance translators
The future is here (targeting, profiling and clustering)
Top 10 most annoying Americanisms
Does Creative Spelling Make a Name More Protectable?
Lesson 1: Introducing business skills for translators
Preventing goof-ups: 10 proofreading tips
Language Myths and Complicated Languages
Adventures with MemoQ
My Process
Calculated Risks
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
How to Become a Referral Magnet for Your Freelance Business
The Great Big (30+) List of iPhone Apps for Writers
Back to basics: A 10-step freelance story workflow guide
More Comments and 6 Effective Techniques to Get Them
Write it down, make it better: Editing tips
10 Things Most Bloggers and Writers Forget
Reset Your Job Post-Vacation
Freelancing Stress 3.0
Social media, Web Design & Business
App Tells You Which LinkedIn Connections Are in the Room
10 things you should know about your clients (but probably don’t)
Job Searching with Social Media
Google+: misunderstood or underestimated?
How to Use QR Codes to Market Your Business
25 Facebook Page Ideas You Haven’t Tried Yet
How to be credible when you connect on LinkedIn
34 Awesome Twitter Ideas for Engaging Your Prospects
What’s Wrong with Treating All Clients the Same?
5 Simple Steps for Improving Your LinkedIn Visibility
Travel & Miscellaneous
To Tourists, Greek Debt Crisis Is a Distant Concept
How Google Changed the Way We Think and Remember
How to Fight Plagiarism – Tips and Tools
The New 7 Wonders of the World
About the author
Catherine Christaki has been a full-time English-Greek translator since 2001 and co-owner of Lingua Greca Translations since 2012. She specializes in Information Technology, Medical, and Technical texts and loves writing for the Adventures in Technical Translation blog. She regularly shares her experience and insight on social media and blogging for translators, giving interviews and presenting at conferences. Connect with her on Twitter @LinguaGreca.
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Thank you, Catherine for including my blog post! What an honour! 🙂
The pleasure is all mine Ewa 🙂 These weekly posts wouldn’t even exist without great content like your post!
I really liked the “Top 10 most annoying Americanisms” link. I especially liked what he had to say about number 2. “Have a Nice Day.” Translation: “I would like you to have a pleasant time today” or “I hate you” – or anything in between.
Hilarious, and way true – another Americanism?