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
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)
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
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
Learning a foreign language: five most common mistakes
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
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
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
Working with Packages
The Gift of Language
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
The Most Common Grammar Gaffes Writers Make (and How To Avoid Them)
12 Gifts and Goodies for Writers
Social media, Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
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
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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