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Translators read all day long in their second language and interpreters speak all day long in their working pairs. 作为语言专业人士, 永利登录网址要确保, 工作日结束后, we keep feeling the joy that originally attracted us to the languages we know. Many of us also enjoy the process of discovering new ideas from different cultures. Reading books in translation and discussing them with other translators offers these benefits, as well as the opportunity to assess published translations in an effort to continually improve our own skills. 读新书，和别人讨论……
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This post is a reblog, originally published in the Slator Tool Box. 本文经作者许可在此转载. My translation clients are primarily based in Europe, so my project flow tends to slow down quite a bit in July and August every year. Europeans, it turns out, take their summer breaks much more seriously than Americans. 与决策者…
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最近, a colleague with ample translation experience contacted me with some questions about breaking into book translations. 对于自由译者, fiction and non-fiction books present an opportunity to expand our offer and to learn about the publishing business. Our exchange focused on the business end, not the challenges of the translation itself. “图书翻译”可以小到一个……
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This post is a reblog, originally published on the Training for Translators blog. It is republished here with permission of the author. 当你想做所有事情时，如何缩小范围? I don’t think I’m the only freelancer with this characteristic (I refuse to call it a problem, 这只是一个特点!). 我总是告诉我的家人我的…
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From the 下一个级别 team: At some point in their professional lives, many linguists consider adding a new service to their portfolio. A major change like adding an entirely new line of work can seem daunting and potentially disastrous, 但如果成功了呢? In this week’s post, Anne Connor discusses how she took up a former service and made…
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This post is an updated version of article that originally appeared on the LION Translation Academy blog. 本文经作者许可在此发表. In the ever-evolving landscape of professional language services, new technologies such as neural machine translation (NMT) and generative AI (genAI) have inevitably sparked debates about how we should be pricing our services. 很多自由职业者……
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This post is a reblog, originally published in the Slator Tool Box. 本文经作者许可在此转载. An agency that occasionally gets in touch sends me an email with four image files attached. Taken with a phone, the pictures show separate pages of a medical patient record. 没有人试图篡改个人数据，……
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BOI是实益拥有权信息的缩写, 意义, information about who actually owns or controls a company. 1月1日, 2024 a new Federal regulation went into effect in the US that requires many companies to report this information to FinCEN, 金融犯罪执法网络, 美国财政部的一个局. 这项新规定是…
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Insights from the Advocacy and Business Practices Education 委员会 of the 永利登录网址 on the DOL’s final rule on worker classification under the FLSA. 雇员或独立承包商? 近年来, many professions that include a high number of independent contractors, 包括语言服务行业, have been rocked by the passage of oftentimes problematic legislation aimed at imposing…
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I’d like to say I’m fascinated by every aspect of my work as a freelance translator, 但这不是一个诚实的声明. The translation part of the job is easy to love, but the administration and paperwork? 没有那么多. 仍然, we all know we need the paperwork to help us keep track of clients and jobs, 比尔适当,…
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This post is a reblog, originally published at Tip of the Tongue. 本文经作者许可再版. 很多自由职业者, 包括翻译, 同时做两份工作, one salaried with regular hours and one as an independent. 这种双重存在的好处是显而易见的. However, the relative load is asymmetric and variable, creating stress not only in terms…
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