- Have good language skills?
- Want to earn your living working from home?
- Considering a career as a freelance translator but don't know where to start?
Then "How to Become a Translator" is for you!
Written by Mark Daniels, a translation professional with twenty years' experience, this book aims to serve as a simple guide to breaking into the written translation business as a freelancer.
Rather than deluge you with information, this guide will outline the basic steps you need to take to break into this very rewarding business:
- What kind of person you need to be: the skills and character of a translator. Is this job really for you?
- How the business works: who the customers are, and where the work is to be found.
- Tools of the trade: the essential equipment and software you cannot do without.
- Finding work as a translator: how to identify and approach potential customers and maximise your chances of getting work.
- Your first assignment: how a typical translation assignment works, what the customer expects, and how you can deliver the best possible work so that they call you again and again!
The guide does not focus on the process of translation itself (that's for another book!). The book assumes your language skills. Rather it is intended to remove the veil of mystery from over the translation industry and show you where you need to focus your efforts so that you can make an effective start in pursuing the career of your dreams.
Here's wishing you every success in becoming a freelance translator!
- Want to earn your living working from home?
- Considering a career as a freelance translator but don't know where to start?
Then "How to Become a Translator" is for you!
Written by Mark Daniels, a translation professional with twenty years' experience, this book aims to serve as a simple guide to breaking into the written translation business as a freelancer.
Rather than deluge you with information, this guide will outline the basic steps you need to take to break into this very rewarding business:
- What kind of person you need to be: the skills and character of a translator. Is this job really for you?
- How the business works: who the customers are, and where the work is to be found.
- Tools of the trade: the essential equipment and software you cannot do without.
- Finding work as a translator: how to identify and approach potential customers and maximise your chances of getting work.
- Your first assignment: how a typical translation assignment works, what the customer expects, and how you can deliver the best possible work so that they call you again and again!
The guide does not focus on the process of translation itself (that's for another book!). The book assumes your language skills. Rather it is intended to remove the veil of mystery from over the translation industry and show you where you need to focus your efforts so that you can make an effective start in pursuing the career of your dreams.
Here's wishing you every success in becoming a freelance translator!
