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 Super Rich Are Not Job Creators – But Translators Like You and Me Create a Lot of Jobs
Reducing Disruptive Behaviors: The Furniture Polish Solution for Trial Interpreting
ETAOIN SRHLDCU, or: What are the most common words and letters in English?
This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Passings, words of the year, foreign words
Crowdsourcing, outsourcing, community outsourcing…finally explained
Plagiarism in the freelance translation business – What to do?
Open Document vs. New Project in SDL Trados Studio 2011
Reports of Translation’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
The stigma of “signer” upon ASL-English interpreters
The Medical Translator’s Dilemma: Shall I, Shan’t I?
Qualified or not? What makes a translator qualified?
Have Your Ever Dreamed in a Different Language?
When Your Certified Colleague is Unprofessional
If I had a dollar for every translator… oh wait
My favourite OpenExchange apps in 2012…
Xbench 3.0 – Making good on my promise
Devious Uses of Foreign Language Skills
Best of Word Soup 2012: TV Word Love
Scams Aimed at Portuguese Translators
Use of apostrophes in scientific writing
Thoughts about working on weekends
Our favorite tweets of the year (2012)
Great Places to Learn Languages
Interview with Kostas Valeontis
Don’t just practice–engage!
The Origin of Language
Grown-up color names
Working in pajamas…
Translation Scams
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
Six Things I Learned About Publishing a Book That Very Few Books Will Tell You
40 Cool Things to Do With Your Posts *After* You Hit Publish
35 Blogs for Those that Aspire to Become Writers
10 Productivity Tips for Freelancers
Freelance frugality, revisited
The Writer’s Diet test
Social media, Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
Why Your Business Needs To Have a Facebook Marketing Plan
7 myths in using Facebook for business (and in general)
10 business clichés that make you sound like an idiot
6 Tips for Dealing with Client Conflict
Miscellaneous
50 Fun, Weird and Interesting Facts About Toronto
How many people are in space right now
Book In, our new book club!
all things bookish
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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Hi Catherine,
Thanks for sharing Johanne’s guest post on ProZ. And for keeping this up! This is where I go when I don’t have time to read many blogs.
Kind regards from Paris,
Catherine
Music to my ears, this is exactly what these Favorites are all about 🙂