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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…
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…
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…
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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Break into higher segments of the translation market by creating and defining your own style set. Instead of taking control and producing consistent translations that follow modern usage guidelines, translators too…
On-Demand B2BB Webinars
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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…
Communicating with clients is key to every freelancer’s success. Still, it’s a skill that few of us have studied, or…
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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…
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…
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Freelancing as a Remote and Distant Interpreter: Over-the-Phone and Webcast Interpreting
Lights, camera, action! Do you have what it takes to go “live” for over-the-phone interpreting assignments and webcasts? Presenter Cristina…
How to Blog for 1 Million Visitors: Advanced Blogging Techniques for Language Professionals
Attend this ATA webinar and become a power blogger! Learn to how to use your blog to market services, network…
Careers in Translation and Interpreting
The increasing diversity of the U.S. population, the growth in international trade, and even the booming Internet have created a…
Healthcare Interpreter Certification: Just the Facts
National certification for healthcare interpreters is finally a reality. What are the benefits of becoming certified? Are you eligible to…
Working with PDF Files, Part II: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Converting and Translating PDF Files
Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the de facto standard around the world. Knowing the right tools and methods to…
Shhh … Don’t Say That! Ethical Dilemmas for Interpreters in Health Care
Medical interpreter training often focuses on terminology and medical background knowledge, but often there is a lot more going on…
Working with PDF Files, Part I: Using Adobe Reader/Acrobat
Don’t be stuck with all those yellow sticky notes—learn to use and manage PDF files efficiently! Edit, comment, search and…
Preparing to Take the ATA Certification Exam
You’ve clicked on the Certification tab on the ATA website and navigated through the information there. You’ve read about the…
Ensuring Payment—Before, During, and After the Project
Late and non-payments are a fact of life in all businesses. The Internet and the rise of translator “auction” portals,…
Revisers: Invisible But Important
Professional translators must know how to revise. Professional translators must know how to revise, both to clean up our work…
Is Machine Translation Ever the Right Tool for the Job?
Machine translation is not an easy technology to love. But it is possible to like on occasion And no matter…
A Translator’s Guide to the Drug Discovery Industry
The discovery and development of new drugs is a highly technical process with its own jargon. Even an experienced translator…
Accentuate the Positive: Making Your Résumé Sing
Emphasize Your Strengths, Grab the Reader’s Attention Customizing your résumé for language services companies and agencies can be challenging. How…
The Zen of Translation Environment Tools (TEnTs)
What Should You Know About Translation Tools? Computer-assisted translation tools offer a work environment where translators can manage terminology, provide…
Tax Tips for Translators
Mary Q. is a fictitious self-employed translator facing many of the issues encountered in a freelance translation business. In this…
Getting Started as a Freelance Translator
Many beginning translators have strong language skills but struggle with the practical aspects of running a freelance business. Participants in…
How to Get the Most Out of Your ATA Membership
When you joined ATA, you tapped into great networking and professional development opportunities. Are you making the most of them?…
The Entrepreneurial Linguist: Lessons from Business School
Linguists excel in the humanities, but most have little business training. This webinar teaches linguists how to behave like entrepreneurs….