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Building a Network
Networking is an essential skill for doing business. Find out how to build and grow your network from two of…
Does Your English Match Your Suit? How to Reflect a More Professional Image
Learn to say what you mean with precision to reflect a more professional image to your clients. Interpreters and translators…
Sight for Simul
Learn key techniques for using your sight translation skills in the simultaneous interpreting mode! We have all been there: an…
Transcreation in Video Game Localization
Learn how to adapt creative content when localizing video games. For gamers, a video game is not just a pastime—it…
Back to Business Basics (B2BB)
This special webinar series provides business basics for translators and interpreters, useful for beginners as well as experienced professionals. Each webinar focuses on a small, practical piece of advice.
Upcoming B2BB Webinars
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Networking is an essential skill for doing business. Find out how to build and grow your network from two of the best in the T&I community. We all know networks…
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Yes, you can ask for feedback—and you should! Discover the benefits of this powerful tool. All too often, translators work…
Break into higher segments of the translation market by creating and defining your own style set. Instead of taking control and…
Learn how to build a specialization and embark on a journey in your desired field. Free for ATA members. For…
Developing a personal brand is a classic “work smarter, not harder” technique. When done well, it will showcase your specific…
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ATA Member Orientation
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Getting and Incorporating Feedback
Yes, you can ask for feedback—and you should! Discover the benefits of this powerful tool. All too often, translators work…
Practical Strategies to Capture Notes Virtually When Providing Remote Interpreting
Discover free technology resources to improve your remote interpreting services. The pandemic has forced us to adapt to interpreting from…
Interpreting Insults from Spanish into Your Target Language
Learn how to handle expletives during an interpreting encounter to convey the message more accurately. Even seasoned interpreters have a…
Introduction to Localization
Learn about the exciting field of localization and the skills needed to be successful. Localization is the act of customizing…
Taking Charge of Your Style Set
Break into higher segments of the translation market by creating and defining your own style set. Instead of taking control and…
Accent Improvement for Asian-Language Speakers
How you speak is important because your voice is often the initial—and lasting—impression you make on people. When the listener…
Back Translation: A Specialized Market for Spanish to English Medical Translators
Attend this webinar to learn when to use back translation, best practices, and the pitfalls of Spanish-English back translation. Back…
Choosing and Building a Specialization
Learn how to build a specialization and embark on a journey in your desired field. Free for ATA members. For…
How to Provide Language Services from a Gender Perspective
The emergence of several guides to inclusive language in the Spanish-speaking world and the reaction that the Royal Spanish Academy…
Doing Business with Law Firms
Legal translators are expected to master both law and language in a market with its own unique, and often rigid,…
Personal Branding Basics
Developing a personal brand is a classic “work smarter, not harder” technique. When done well, it will showcase your specific…
Translating in the Age of Neural Machine Translation, Part I
Artificial intelligence and neural networks are disrupting many industries, and translation is no exception. The question is not whether these…
Business Planning for Interpreters and Translators
Being successful requires good business management skills, some of which you may have already learned the hard way. This 90-minute webinar is here to help.
Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Planning for Freelancers
What happens if you are hit by the proverbial bus? Or have power outages after a weather event? Or have…
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Subtitling: How a Text Translator Can Become a Subtitler
Subtitling is a translation job. You’re a translator. Shouldn’t that be enough? Actually, it’s not. When you’re translating a book…
Closed-Captioning and SDH: An Introduction
This webinar will describe and compare the techniques of closed-captioning and subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, both tasks that…
Phone and Email Etiquette for Freelancers
Communicating with clients is key to every freelancer’s success. Still, it’s a skill that few of us have studied, or…
The New Remote Interpreting Landscape: Back to the Hack
Before COVID-19, remote interpreting was making slow, but steady, inroads into our profession, primarily over platforms specifically designed for providing…
Setting Goals for Your Freelance Translation or Interpreting Business
Setting realistic goals for your business can be a daunting task. Where do you start? What is the right combination…
Entrepreneurial Habits for Freelance Translators and Interpreters
Succeeding as a freelancer will always involve some factors you can’t control—like a global pandemic—but it also involves daily, positive…
Post-Editing: How to Make Machine Translation Work for You
This webinar is presented in Spanish. Should we trust the “man vs. machine” rhetoric that we often see in public…
Diabetes 101: An Overview for Medical Translators and Interpreters
It does not take long for a new translator or interpreter to see that terminology for diabetes is a necessity…
Handling the Holidays as a Freelancer
This is the third webinar in ATA’s Back to Business Basics series. Each webinar in the series focuses on a…
Introducing ATA’s Mastermind Program
Most translators go into business understanding that finding and retaining clients will be hard work. What many fail to see,…
Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal
Audio description makes visual images accessible for people who are blind or have low vision—the visual is made verbal. Using…
Diversification: A Tool for Thriving in Uncertain Times
While many things are uncertain when you run your own business—especially during a pandemic and economic crisis—one thing is clear…
Challenges in Human Rights Translation
How to Research Terminology and Make Your Writing Shine Finding the best terms to use in any area of translation…
Effective and Pitch-Perfect Marketing during and after COVID-19
With an ongoing global pandemic and economic crisis, marketing your services may not feel like a priority right now. But…
The Hard Side of Project Management: Software, Timelines, and Gantt Charts
Managing projects efficiently is essential to maximizing business. Using visual representation to track workflow is a great technique for doing…
The Remote Interpreter’s Companion
Scribbling on a piece of paper is so 2019. Especially in times like these, technology can help us break down…
What Is Audiovisual Translation?
Is a specialization in audiovisual translation for you? Attend this 60-minute webinar for a bird’s-eye view of audiovisual translation (AVT)…
Don’t Fall for It! Scams Targeting Language Professionals
Even the best of us have been tempted by a scam. Technology has given scammers an unprecedented level of sophistication…
Beyond Manuals of Style
This webinar is presented in Spanish. A good manual of style is a critical tool for a translator. It can…
How to Utilize LinkedIn Strategically to Reach Your Ideal Clients
Many freelancers set up a LinkedIn account because they know it’s what professionals do. Then, they promptly let their profile…
Becoming a Court Interpreter in California
What does it take to work as an interpreter in the California court system? Attend this webinar to find out!…
Personal Branding 101
Developing a personal brand lets you focus your marketing on the clients who want what you have and frees you…
Understanding Remote Simultaneous Interpreting
Remote simultaneous interpreting, or RSI, is here to stay. Will you sit on the sidelines or get on board? Attend…
Educational Interpreting—An Emerging Specialization
Interpreters have been working in schools for years with little acknowledgment of the complex skills needed to do the job….
Inbound Marketing for Freelance Translators
Is inbound marketing part of your online strategy to reach direct clients? It should be. Join presenter Tess Whitty for…
Editing Non-Native English Scientific Writing
“The manuscript is poorly written and has too many grammatical and syntax errors. The results are very interesting from a…
Opening the ATA Certification Exam to Non-Members
The ATA Certification exam is scheduled to open to non-members on January 1, 2021. The elimination of ATA membership as…
Linguistic Challenges in Palliative Care
Palliative care is often mistaken for hospice care. Add cultural and linguistic differences to that misunderstanding, and you have a…
Managing the Stages of Your Small Business
When you start a new business, your focus is all about what to do first. But what happens once you’re…
The Creative World of Transcreation and Copywriting
Transcreation remains a field where a talented translator’s human, creative touch is highly valued. If you’ve got the skills and…