Business Smarts: Fluctuating Workloads

By The Savvy Linguist | May 20, 2014

One of the most daunting questions for freelancers – and more so for freelancers-to-be! – is how to handle workload fluctuations. In this great post…

An Invitation: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Linguist | May 13, 2014

As you may have noticed, the ATA Savvy Newcomer blog will be running a series in the coming months on the many options for…

The Hidden Part of the Job

By The Savvy Linguist | May 6, 2014

By Giovanna Lester  In my marketing workshops I discuss a subject I call “Anatomy of a Project.” The focus is on the immediate interaction…

Kent State University: A Day in the Life

By The Savvy Linguist | April 29, 2014

The Program Kent State University’s Department of Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies is home to an active and vibrant translation department boasting bachelor’s,…

Nice Interpreter!

By The Savvy Linguist | April 22, 2014

By Judy and Dagmar Jenner Reblogged from Translation Times with permission from the authors Today’s post is about the importance of being, well, nice.…

Bilingualism – Part III

By The Savvy Linguist | April 15, 2014

In this third and final part of the series about Bilingualism, Eta Trabing discusses what it really means to be a “professional”, some of the…

ATA Divisions: Providing Homes for all Translators

By The Savvy Linguist | April 8, 2014

By Lucy Gunderson, CT Administrator of the Slavic Languages Division Getting involved in an organization like the American Translators Association can be an intimidating…

Bilingualism – Part II

By The Savvy Linguist | April 1, 2014

Today we continue with Part II of this fascinating journey through bilingualism. In this issue, our guest author, Eta Trabing, provides some tips to…

To the Shy Networker

By The Savvy Linguist | March 25, 2014

By Evelyn Yang Garland There I was, at a well-attended networking event… hiding in the restroom! I hated to schmooze with a room full…

Bilingualism – Part I

By The Savvy Linguist | March 18, 2014

Today we will begin with Part I of a series of three articles about Bilingualism. Our guest author, Ms. M. Eta Trabing, walks us…

Negotiation — A Learnable Skill

By The Savvy Linguist | March 11, 2014

By Nina Sattler-Hovdar. Translated from the German by Tom Ellett. Original article first published in Infoblatt 01/2013, the newsletter of ADÜ Nord.  When it…

A Day in the Life: New York University’s M.S. in Translation Program

By The Savvy Linguist | March 4, 2014

By Samantha Lisk The first thing I realized when I began my master’s in New York University’s online Master of Science in Translation program…