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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…
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…
ATA Member Orientation
Start your membership off on the right foot by learning how to take advantage of all the benefits ATA has…
Building a Network
Networking is an essential skill for doing business. Find out how to build and grow your network from two of…
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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Yes, you can ask for feedback—and you should! Discover the benefits of this powerful tool. All too often, translators work in a bubble. Many are not used to soliciting feedback…
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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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…
What happens if you are hit by the proverbial bus? Or have power outages after a weather event? Or have…
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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…
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…
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Setting Up a Termbase: What Does It Take?
Setting up a termbase is an investment of time, but the result is a huge payoff down the road. You’ll…
Volunteering: Making Your Investment of Time Worthwhile
Do you ever wonder why people volunteer? Or how they find the time? Using her own experience, presenter Jamie Hartz…
Mac for Translators—What Are My Chances?
Given that the vast majority of computer assisted translation tools (CATs) are aimed at Windows users, many Mac users or…
German Orthography for Language Pros
Many years after its introduction, seasoned translators and interpreters still occasionally struggle with the finer points of German orthography reforms….
Divide and Conquer
Contract Clauses Assorted, Explained, and Simplified Efficiency in translating contracts begins with understanding the parts of the document that make…
The Ins and Outs of Game Localization
Translating games sounds appealing, but any game localization expert will tell you how challenging this industry is. With a variety…
A Hands-on Look at Déjà Vu X3 from Atril
Computer-assisted translation programs such as translation memory are an essential tool for many professional translators. This presentation will walk through…
A Quick Introduction to Trados Studio 2017
Attend this webinar for a demonstration of the basic features of Trados Studio 2017 and how the translation process is…
memoQ: Getting Started
There are so many translation environments available today that new translators—or even seasoned translators looking to make a change—will likely…
Get to Know Your Glands: A Closer Look at the Endocrine System
Thymus gland or thyroid gland—which is which and where? True or false: all glands have ducts. Hashi…who? Attend this webinar…
More Tools and Toys for ‘Terps
There’s an app for everything, right? Take this time to explore apps and technology that interpreters can use to train…
Why Can’t I Raise My Rates?
Freelancers often set their rates based on costs and competition. Then they wonder why they aren’t making ends meet. What…
Transcreation: Translation With A Twist
Advertising copy should be transcreated rather than translated. The idea of “transcreation” usually generates a lot of curiosity. But have…
Translation Contracts: Beyond the Basics
You’ve got the contract, but should you sign it? Whether doing business with agencies or direct clients, you need to…
Creating and Optimizing a Website for Your Freelance Business
Building your own website is not as hard as it looks! When it comes to attracting serious clients online, it’s…
Translating for the Courts
Observe like a detective, be faithful like a court interpreter, decide like a judge. These are the three basic skills…
Entering the Changing Interpreting Market
Whether you are just graduating from an interpreting program or have been in the market for a while, this webinar…
Specialization: Why and How, and What’s the Big Deal?
Translators and interpreters are told they should specialize. But why? And how narrowly? And how do they achieve it? Join…
Spreading Your Wings: Transitioning from Classroom to a Career in Translation
Can I really make it as a freelancer? Do I need a website? How do I find clients? What services…
A Step-by-Step Manual: How to Give a School Outreach Presentation and Tips for Capturing a Winning Photo
School by school, class by class, ATA members have shared their careers in ways that captured the imagination of students…
Killer Networking Skills for Language Industry Professionals
Networking means new business When asked, translators and interpreters often say that referrals from their professional network are one of…
A Guide to ATA Certification
If you have questions about the Certification Exam, this webinar is for you! In this ATA webinar, two experienced graders…
Negotiating Translation Agreements
How to Apply Principled Negotiation to Real-Life Settings Negotiation is often portrayed as a winner-take-all game. This is not the…
Getting Personal About Pricing
A common problem in trying to decide what to charge is overlooking the basics of budgeting. This is a job…
Terminology Management—Why Would I Do That?
Is there more to your job than the daily chase for the best translation? Consider the long-term view instead: taking…
Copyediting for Translators—Making Serious Writing Sing
Translators often face dilemmas when working with writing by intelligent authors with sloppy writing habits. How do you deal with…
The Price is Right—Pricing Strategies for Your Translation Services
How do you set and get a fair price for your translation services? This must-watch webinar lays out the most…
The Basics of Intellectual Property Law for Translators
Intellectual Property Law (IPL) can be confusing and overwhelming, especially when dealing with editorials, journals, and authors in literary translation….
Translating Patents for Evidence and PCT Filing
Attend this webinar to learn the requirements for the translation of patents for evidence in proceedings at national and international…
Effective Marketing to Translation Companies
How do freelancers find the right translation company? Translation companies are the backbone of many freelancer businesses, but both beginning…