Steven Capsuto - TranslatorI think that the trick to physical fitness is to stop telling myself "Okay, when you get through today's work, as a reward, you can go to the gym" and instead start telling myself "Okay, if you get through this morning's workout, as a reward, you get to go home and translate stuff into English!"
After months of work, I'm finally translating the last page of a 400-page book from Portuguese into English. Of course, that means there's still 400 pages of editing and proofreading to go, but it still feels like a win. 😀
I've got a cool mix of projects this week! I'm most of the way through translating a 400-page biography from Portuguese, but am shifting gears for a few days to translate sample chapters of a history book about 19th-century science, from French. 🔬 #translation #translator #TranslatorsLife
I've been taking a medical interpreting course through CUNY so I can diversify my business beyond document and book translations.
Decided to go old school and make hundreds of physical flashcards and take handwritten notes. Wow, my hand is not used to doing this much handwriting anymore! It's like a mini-workout. 😀
I love being in a profession where I have to know weird things like whether "blow job" is one word or two.
(Two words, according to Merriam-Webster. The term just turned up in a stage play I'm translating.)
It's such an educational profession.
It's weird: I keep getting emails from representatives of interpreting agencies who say they've read my profile on the American Translators Association website and have the perfect interpreting gig for me!
The thing is, I'm not an interpreter. Not yet, anyway. And there's nothing on my ATA profile that suggests I am. Every interpreting field on the profile is blank.
Some people just don't read.
At this hour, I am *way* too tired to be translating clever, punchy marketing slogans. (Moves on to next page of this annual report...)
I just spent a fascinating couple of weeks translating academic study guides into English, and now this week I have the entertaining challenge of making a theater character's smarmy double-entendres work in English. This is such a cool, challenging profession!
Kerstin Fricke
TDonoval"Job description:
A #translator in the livestock industry plays a crucial role in ensuring accurate #communication across #language barriers. They #translate #documents, #breeding, and #health, ensuring #terminology is precise."
I'd like very much apply, but even though I'm good #AF, I got no clue how to translate breeding and health. Documents, I can manage.
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