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
English words of Yiddish origin: schmoozing, kvetching, and keeping schtum blog
When your client asks you to translate captions but doesn’t give you the pictures
15 tips on how to increase your chances when contacting translation companie
Breaking the language barrier: Tim Doner at TEDxTeen (YouTube video)
15 Delightful Foreign Terms of Endearment English Should Adopt
8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today
Translating Marketing Campaign Materials: Making the Right Moves
Censorship of job platforms: comparing Proz and Translator’s Café
Bangers & Biscuits: Your Guide to Translating British Food Slang
Localization Engineers: Taking Technology Around the World
When a freelance translator meets another freelance translator
Brevity and Attractiveness: Misreporting Linguistic Science
12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time
21 Everyday Frustrations Bilinguals Will Understand
7 Backstories Behind Everyday Technology Terms
Translation Tech Roundup, March 2014 Edition
The Freelance Translator’s No-Man’s Land
What Language Sounds Like to Foreigners
Style guides for software documentation
Bite-sized Tips No. 3: Spellings – Part 2
Feedback: Good Even When Bad
Backing up ISN’T hard to do…
My Weekly Top 5 (Part II)
TEnTs Interoperability
Online licensing woes
Taming the Dragon
Greek
CAT-Quickies: Πώς να μεταφράσετε ένα αρχείο με το OmegaT
Freelancing, Blogging, Writing
The 10 Commandments for WordPress Blogging Beginners
8 Ways to Pump Up Your Writing Career
4 Fun Tools to Check Your Writing
The Writing Client Interview
Losing Bad Writing Habits
35 Million Free Images
Social media, Marketing, Business, Networking, Web Design
Book Review: Changing the Sales Conversation by Linda Richardson
Social Selling: 19 Steps To Social Selling On LinkedIn
Writers & Social Media: Use Responsibly
Miscellaneous
How to Get Better Sleep (and Need Less Every Night)
16 Food Reasons Greeks Are Better At Life (photos)
40 Worst Book Covers and Titles Ever
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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