Dear Friends, Last week, I was honored to receive an invitation from Elena Tereshchenkova, co-host of Translators On Air, to appear on th...

Dear Friends, Last month, I sat for a three-hour exam in Alexandria, VA to be certified by the American Translators Association. The ATA ...

Yesterday my mentor with the American Translators Association took me to a workshop presented by Ken Smith from Sandler Training on how t...

What’s the difference between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese? These are different writing systems of Chinese characters. Trad...

Culturally and linguistically sensitive humor is often lost in translation. Putting in a footnote might help a little, but explaining a j...

Networking used to terrify me. This often strikes my friends and family as odd because I'm actually one of the bubbly, loquacious type of...

Professional translators typically had their start at translation agencies, working in-house or as a linguist contractor. Many establishe...

A sedentary lifestyle, also known as the sitting disease, is probably one of the top risks for modern work life where sitting in a cubicl...

Amongst Chinese translators, one of the most revered and frequently cited principles is the tripartite translation theory proposed by Yan...

Suppose you fancy Art Deco and want to find someone to incorporate such elements into the design of your home. Would you contract with a ...

Today I want to celebrate how extensive background knowledge can make a big difference in the appropriateness and accuracy of translation...

I've mentioned before that translators need to be connoisseurs of words who improve their taste through savoring and critiquing works by ...

A translator extracts meanings from one language and delivers them in another. This process requires both the language proficiency to und...