How to Become a Translator

Employers are increasingly searching for multilinguals in order to widen their client pool. Someone who is able to communicate through multiple languages immediately have an advantage over someone who cannot by simply having the ability to communicate with more people. As a result of

The use of translation in the classroom as a teaching method is a valid method to teach english as a foreign language. Over the years, translation as a teaching method has being avoided as a technique to use at the classroom. With the development of different approaches and methods such as communicative approach or the audiolingual method, which looks for the students to learn with the least possible use of speakers’ native language. According to Richards (2006) to learn how to communicate language people need competence which includes different real-life situations; grammar does not fulfil these roles and as far of the learning, in other words, learning by only speaking and practicing the target language other abilities would eventually be

Throughout my collaboration with the organization, I worked on producing an improved English translation of their official website. This has been the longest document I have ever worked on, totaling 31 pages and just over nine thousand words. While working on such a long document, I have noticed various important technical aspects about the process. I have learned that it can be difficult to maintain the consistency of terminology throughout the document, and that it is a good idea to go back through after completing all of the text and revise with an eye for consistency. I also learned that it is very important to revise in general, and to step back and take a break before doing so; when working in two languages at once, it is very easy to get caught up in the details of one or the other. There were many occasions when I was reading over what I had written earlier and I realized that sentence was obviously written in Spanish syntax even though it had English words. Finally, I learned that, even though translation is an individual process, it can be extremely helpful to collaborate with others and ask for a second opinion in order to produce the best possible

When entering a new market, at least one of the company representatives must know the language of the country. Even though the most common language used in the international business world is English, many countries have a very poor command of the English language therefore it is highly beneficial to have an employee that speaks the language. It is in benefit of the business to get the best deals, make negotiations and agreements however without a common language this can sometimes lead to misunderstanding and hiring a translator can be very expensive.

My goal is to deliver highly accurate translations in a timely manner. I only provide human translations and I use basic spell checker softwares exclusively to double check any possible mistake I might have missed.

Translators have access to some of the world's most heavily guarded secrets. Think about it...businesses go through millions of dollars in security to protect proprietary data, formulas, recipes, business ideas, medical data, personnel information, etc. Then, when that information needs to be sent to an overseas office, placed on a patent application, submitted for approval to a foreign government, and so forth, who do they turn to? Translation services. After all, they don't know the target language or culture.

Interpreters are expected to honor consumers preferences in selection of interpreters and interpreting dynamics, while recognizing the realities of qualifications, availability, and situation.

In “Lost in Translation,” Lera Boroditsky writes to people within businesses or people who are wanting to invest in companies that work with other countries. The audience for her article is for designated for people who are interested in reading The Wall Street Journal, but within The Wall Street Journal it is directed mainly towards people that run a business. Boroditsky wrote this to express that language is important no matter what. She shares with the reader her views on the matter because her research has helped her realize that language has a big effect on people. Telling people about her research is beneficial and gives people an inside scoop on what happens around the world. Lera Boroditsky demonstrates her credibility to her

The internet likes to poke fun at Google Translate sometimes but it's a popular service for a reason. Many users love the service for translating foreign web pages to their native tongue. Additionally, it can be used to have some fun as well but that's not the matter at hand today. Today, we discuss options.

Throughout the years, we, translators, have been providing the mankind a service for them to communicate with each other. However, with the recent technologic advances, the necessity of translators have started to diminish little by little. Today in our mundane lives people use online translation websites powered by machine translation (MT) to ease their lives. Even so there are a lot of different views, which are mostly negative, about MT and its efficacy and future, as long as the technology advances, the function of MT will be enough to dominate the global market and this will be regarded as disqualification of translators. “Google translates more words in 1 minute than all human translators in one year!” and this statement won’t change

Newmark (1988) considered translation as a matter of choice. His idea is that translators should have the skill which enables them to decide upon the most appropriate equivalence. Translator’s choice depends on certain criteria in accordance with a specific theory. Regarding this matter, one of these problems was about how to achieve equivalence or the equivalent effect of the political terms or expressions. Wrong choice giving the inadequate or inaccurate translation.

Some linguists claim that dealing with the process of finding equivalence is the most significant issue existing among translation processes and that is one of the mains principles of Western theory of translation. Translation is a mean of communication and in order for it to be effective it is crucial to establish appropriate equivalence between source and target text. Nida defines translation as “reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style”. (Nida, 1982, p. 12) It is conspicuous that equivalence is one of basic concepts of translation which cannot be overlooked. This complex phenomenon often becomes a measure which helps to define the process of translation. Number of researches stress on the important role of the equivalence for the translation process and it is hard to hard to overestimate the role of equivalence in translation. Use of equivalence translation help people to understand each other and enables achieving communication goals. Achieving maximum linguistic, grammar and structural equivalence is inevitably linked with certain restrictions and limitations but the skilful use of equivalents can undoubtedly benefit the results of translation act. Despite different approaches, the equivalence is an important

“Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do, that they do not just translate well because they have a “flair” for translation, but rather because, like other professional, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work.”

It’s clear that localization is not just a synonym for translation used in the technology industry. In fact, I’ve realized that the goal of translation and the goal of localization are actually very different.

Daniel Gouadec (2002: 273) said in Translation as a Profession that "most translation problems and potential risks could be resolved by getting as much information as possible prior to a translation project". As to the translation project in this report, I made preparation in the following aspects: