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3 fatal errors to avoid when you're starting
Thread poster: Nicole König
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sweets to the sweet Oct 22, 2018

Besides ever increasing "best-rates-discounts-pay-after-three-some-months" and other damping and servile "win-and-silence-them-all" trends, the translation field is not very different from any other biz, where they offer not manpower, know-hows, or skills, but "solutions". However, full-grown--Oops!--seasoned translators are old enough to forget that newcomers not only don't know many things yet, but also don't know what and where to start looking for--this is where simple leading ... See more
Besides ever increasing "best-rates-discounts-pay-after-three-some-months" and other damping and servile "win-and-silence-them-all" trends, the translation field is not very different from any other biz, where they offer not manpower, know-hows, or skills, but "solutions". However, full-grown--Oops!--seasoned translators are old enough to forget that newcomers not only don't know many things yet, but also don't know what and where to start looking for--this is where simple leading questions come to the rescue.

Of course, some may disagree such three questions like those are the most important at the very beginning for newbie translators, yet it took me just a cup of coffee, what seems a good start ▲ Collapse
 
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