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
The Newbie-Project Manager’s Guide on How to Ruin an Entire Agency in 60 Days or Less
Translation Memory Matches and Repetitions Can Be a Roadblock to Using a TM
Attacks of Zombie Translators Are Unrelenting In a Horrible Economy
Interview with Barry S. Olsen & Katharine Allen of InterpretAmerica
The Man Who Could No Longer Speak To His Wife (Part II)
There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Translation Industry’
Série de l’été : Prendre le temps de s’organiser (6)
Translation (style) guides – guides to nowhere
The Curious Pleasure Of (Language) Peeving
Relocation blog diary 4 – check payments lost
Linguistic archeology: The tree of knowledge
Translation, transcreation and localization
Mea Culpa: ‘language brokering’
Interpreting at Aquatic Therapy
The ‘orderliness’ of language
Translating on Your Terms
A Translator’s Price List
Quotes on translation
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
7 Mistakes Every Freelancer Should Avoid When Emailing Cover Letters
10 Grammar Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Spreading
The 50 Best Literary Put-Downs
Social media, Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
How to Meet People in a Room Full of Strangers
6 Ways To Follow-Up Without Being Annoying
The Ten Commandments of Twitter
Miscellaneous
Lucky & Unlucky Numbers Around the World [infographic]
MIT OpenCourseWare – free online learning resources
Telltale Signs Someone Is Lying [Infographic]
Why Waiting in Line Is Torture
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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