Translators
Gabe Bokor's online
Translation Journal
has
hotlinks
to
translators organizations
,
databases of translators
,
on-line glossaries and dictionaries
,
discussion groups
, and much more.
Jim Martindale's Reference Desk Language and Translation Center
links to
multilingual dictionaries
,
language grammars
, and
single-language dictionaries
.
A comprehensive online source for information about translation is Peter Sandrini's
Resources for Translators and Interpreters
at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Another interesting site is
Cecilia Falk's home page in English
or
in Swedish
.
Karin Adamczyk
Macroconsulting
no longer contains
Resources for Translators
, a database of translation rates, with testimonials and complaints about 5000 different translation agencies worldwide and reviews of translation tools. The
Payment Practices mailing list
(used by freelancer translators to request credit references from other freelancers who have had experience with an agency) also appears no longer active.
ALMAL
seems to be offering something similar.
Alex Eames
offers a twice-monthly free mailing on the translation business and sells a book of tips on translating. Radovan Pletka's
Jobs for Translators
culls job listings from major world news sources. It costs $30/year to receive his biweekly emailing.
The
American Translators Association
and the
Northern California Translators Association
list thousands of translators, searchable by language pair and subject area. The
Institute of Translators and Interpreters
in the UK offers a directory of translators.
ProZ.com
, the "web's leading language workplace," has well over 10,000 translator members. It features personal web pages for translators and agencies, sensible payment advice for translators, ratings and discounts on translation memory (TM) tools, and a powerful bidding system for translation jobs.
KudoZ
is a free human translation service. You can submit a word or phrase and have it translated. Moderators then grade the quality of the translation and award KudoZ points. Translators with high KudoZ points are superior candidates for translation work.
GoTranslators.com
is a new site somewhat similar to ProZ.
More Translator Databases
(also see our
Communities page
)
These databases are typically searchable by language pair.
In Europe,
Aquarius
is a portal to hundreds of translators. Trados, the pioneer in translation memory tools, sponsors
www.translationzone.com
. It lists hundreds of freelance translators and localizers. Atril, manufacturers of Deja Vu, offer a
similar service at transref.org
.
Stephen Martin's
Linguists.com
offers email links and personal resum� pages for hundreds of translators. The
American Web Directory
is a for-fee listing of translators. They charge U.S. $36 for four listings for twelve months. One language pair in one subject is considered ONE listing. Each additional listing is U.S. $9.95 per year.
Other Translator Listings
Cecilia Falk maintains a listing of
Translators with Home Pages
.
Glenn's Guide to Translation Agencies
lists a few hundred translation agencies.
Translator Associations
TranslationResearch.com manages a WebRing
of Translation Research
Christian Erwig-Straughan's Translation & Languages site helps you choose translation agencies, translators, and language translation providers.
