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
Future Schlock: Common Sense, Nonsense, and the Law of Supply and Demand
Changes looming in the horizon for legal system in the United Kingdom
Visitors’ Slang Guide to the 2012 London Olympics (YouTube video)
5 Fundamental lessons for a Project Manager in Translation Industry
Lost in Google Translate: U.S. show’s attempt at Hebrew runs afoul
Interprenomics: A Decoder Ring for Sign Language Interpreters
Approaches to MemoQ – NCTA’s Translorial Online Edition
Traducteurs: 6 avantages à visiter les salons professionnels
The Freelance Translator’s Reading List: Additions
Clearing up the Top 10 Myths About Translation
Report on the Harry Potter Panel of Translators
Different Ways of Learning a Language Online
The Funny Grammar Guide to Graffiti Part 2
1 Linguist, 3 Questions with Valeria Aliperta
How to choose your working languages
Goldilocks and the Email Signature
An Interpreter’s Summer Wish List
Football dictionaries and glossaries
And The Last Part of British Slang
The Story of Doktor Dollmann
What is good interpreting
How do I ask for royalties?
Translators Are Editors
Mark Twain’s German
But I won’t do that
Extreme Reading
A Day at Work
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
Writing A Creative Brief: Dragging The Right Information Out Of A Client
Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?
Understanding the Business Aspect of Freelancing
Social media
10 Personal Branding Mistakes To Avoid On Twitter…
LinkedIn Cheat Sheet For Dummies
Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
How To Get Clients From A Conference Or Trade-show
7 Personal Branding Tips For Introverts
Miscellaneous
Work Less and Do More by Applying the Pareto Principle to Your Task List
9 Things No One Wants to Regret When They’re Older
10 Destructive Faults in Our Way of Thinking
10 of the Funniest U.S. Town Names
60 Selfless Ways to Pay It Forward
10 Signature Cocktails for Summer
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 🙂
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