How to Become a Translator

I’ve been waiting for a Korean language dictation program to come out. I used a Korean voice recognition program...

    The title of this section is a little negative, but I kept it because it hints at...

A majority of the people that know me envy my job (all of them do, actually). It’s not that...

As I write, concepts I need to introduce keep popping up and new concepts emerge that need explanation. Knowing...

This post explains two practical steps to get translating Jobs: registering with ProZ and TranslatorsCafe; bidding for translating jobs.

This post explains where translation market is and why this is a good time to be a translator.

This post explains some common misconceptions about how to become a translator and presents the skills you actually need…

ProZ and TranslatorsCafe are the only two marketplace businesses that I’ve introduced in detail so far. (If you have...

We were all taught… no, brainwashed… that a busy person was a capable person. That being busy is a good...

I’m sure there are many theories and methods about how to learn a foreign language. Everybody has different circumstances and...