Client Satisfaction Surveys for Freelance Translators
Satisfied clients typically become loyal clients. Finding out what satisfies them can help your business succeed.
Read MoreBusiness and Marketing Tips for Translators: Direct Client Contact Ideas
We know clients are out there and that they need us, but exactly how to reach them is the issue.
Read MoreWelcome and Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org As we welcome the new year, we also welcome a new ATA Board of Directors. David…
Read MoreCharting a Course Forward
From the President David Rumsey nordictranslator@gmail.com ATA is often compared to a large ship, which makes changes slowly and deliberatively. There have been a lot…
Read MoreSpreading the Word about Translation and Interpreting within the Journalism Community
A few months ago, the board of directors of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Florida (ATIF), ATA’s Florida chapter, received a request…
Read MoreBilingualism in the Classroom: ATA’s School Outreach in Action
This year’s ATA School Outreach Contest winner helped promote the value of our profession to a classroom of eager students in Spain.
Read MoreLetters to the Editor Charging by the Hour? Judy Jenner’s suggestion in her September-October column that we charge by the hour appears to me…
Read MoreUzbek Practical Dictionary; English-Serbian Medical Dictionary
Uzbek Practical Dictionary: Uzbek-English/English-Uzbek Reviewed by: Shelley Fairweather-Vega Author: Aleksey Radjabov Publisher: Hippocrene Books Publication Date: 2015 ISBN: 978-0781813259 Price: $29.95 Number of pages:…
Read MoreSpeech Recognition to Go
Repetitive stress injuries have a long history in medical literature. The first known report of this condition appeared more than 300 years ago, written…
Read MoreTranscending the Legacy of Jerome
Jerome, the illustrious theologian and linguist we celebrate as the patron saint of translators, may have been canonized after his death, but while he…
Read MoreMistake of the Year
Because few things are as fun as poking fun at myself, I wanted to share my most horrifying interpreting error of the year, which…
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Switching from a Laptop to a Tablet: An Interpreter’s Experience
If you’re an interpreter thinking of how nice it would be not to have to carry that heavy laptop around to each assignment, you’ll be glad to learn that there’s very little that can’t be done efficiently on a tablet.
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