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Becoming a Freelance Translator 101

We came across this great presentation on Slideshare by Jed Schmidt called "Translation as vocation: A primer for newbies." It's a quick and informative presentation on the ins and outs of becoming a freelance translator. It gives you the good ("TiVo your life, and toss your alarm clock"), the bad ("isolation...you are HR, accounting and sanitation") and the ugly (we'll leave that one to your imagination). And even if you've been a freelance translator for awhile...you're sure to pick up on a few pointers that you may have neglected or forgotten about over the years.



Enjoy!



Tags: freelance translator slideshare

Posted 4pm, Thursday 29th October, 2009 by Jennifer Richardson

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Translation was stuck in the past.

Before myGengo, you could only get free, fast, awful machine translation or expensive, slow human service.

Instead, we provide fast, super low-cost human translation good enough for almost all situations, via an easy-to-use website.

We offer:
Japanese translation
Chinese translation
Spanish translation
...with more languages coming online very soon.

Our unique new services let ordinary people publish and read foreign-language content from around the world.

That's simple human translation.

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