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How to Find Your Niche As a Translator

Audra De Falco

Now more than ever, translators face downward pressure on rates. Fly-by-night translation agencies seemingly pop up out of nowhere, promising to offer 100s of languages to clients all over the world--

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My Mentoring Experience

Sara Reis

The concept of mentoring is not very popular in Portugal, and this is also true for the translation industry. That�

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Just write it.

Vladimir Zakharov

A lot has been said about the importance of writing for translators. Which makes sense: After all, it‘s what we write

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A German, a Russian, and a Thai walk into a bar...

Vladimir Zakharov

The place is overcrowded, and the three struggle to get to the counter. The German tries to convince the crowd to for

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Three things a translator can learn from clouds

Vladimir Zakharov

I was lying on the shore, looking at the clouds and trying to find familiar images in the chaotic fluffs of evaporated w

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State of the Union, 2017

Dmitry Kornyukhov

Hello friends! I hope 2017 is off to a very good start for you. In my case December and January are normally quite sl

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ABBA and the Half-Full Glass

Julia Thornton

On New Year’s Eve, a friend of mine posted a song that usually comes to mind this time of the year, Happy New Year by

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