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tranfree issue 39 - 03 September 2001
Getting Translation ExperienceBy Alex Eames We get quite a few questions from beginners. Although translatortips.com is not particularly aimed at beginners, we do have some tranfree readers who are fairly fresh. One of the questions we're always being asked at translatortips® is...
How Can I get Experience?The answer we usually give is to contact charitable and non-profit organisations or do other voluntary work. It's a catch-22 situation. Nobody wants to hire you if you have no experience, but how do you get any experience unless someone hires you? Well this is how you can break out of that loop. According to one of the recent postings in the translatortips® forums... http://www.translatortips.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000017.html Amanda said...
(the email address is on this page, but if I published it in
tranfree, Eurotexte would kill me
...and Sandrine said...
And another place which is looking for volunteers is... The World Social Forum http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br Any interested "native-English" professional translators, working particularly from French, Portuguese or Spanish, please contact Peter Lenny for further details. lenny@alternex.com.br
Once you've got some work done, you've got some experience to
build on. Good luck
Alex Eames is the founder of translatortips.com, |
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