Useful Links
If you're interested in learning more about translation and its related issues, these websites are just a few of the many good ones on offer:
Top Language Jobs - [Ireland's leading specialist language recruitment website for language jobs in the Dublin, Cork and Ireland]
www.trans-k.co.uk/res_tr_e.html - [resources for translators and more information about getting started in translation]
www.copyediting.co.uk - [information on getting started as a freelance proofreader/copy-editor]
www.lingualearn.co.uk/professionals/careers.htm - [Lingualearn employs a variety of language professionals, mainly on a freelance basis: tutors, translators, interpreters, language consultants, proof-readers, etc]
www.accurapid.com/journal - [a publication for translators by translators about translators and translation]
www.ethnologue.com - [all the languages you could wish for...]
www.lexicool.com - [online dictionary directory which has links to over 4000 bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet.]
www.lingo24.com/language_translation_forum/index.php - [informative forum for translators and language fans in general]
www.proZ.com - [extensive range of information and resources for translators all round the world]
translatorscafe.com - [active online forum for translators]
If you think your forte may lie in interpreting...
check out www.aiic.net/schools - for lists of international interpreting schools.
Translators' and Interpreters' Organisations Around the World:
www.aiic.net - AIIC (International Association of Conference Interpreters)
www.aitc.ch - AITC (Association internationale des traducteurs de conférence)
www.mix.it/AITI/AITI.htmAITI - (Italian Translators and Interpreters Association)
www.atajtraduction.asso.ma - (Association of Moroccan certified court interpreters)
www.atanet.org - ATA (American Translators Association)
www.ata-divisions.org/ID/Interpreters' - Division of ATA
www.aticom.de - ATICOM (Association of Professional Freelance Translators and Interpreters, Germany)
www.atlf.org - ATLF (French Literary Translators' Association)
www.atpp.org.pe - ATPP (Asociación de Traductores Profesionales del Perú)
Worth pursuing!
- Career openings for linguists
- Education
- Translation
- Interpreting
- Export/import
- Diplomatic service
- Civil service
- International charity work
- Travel and tourism
- Multilingual project management
- Applied linguistics
www.atr.org.ro - ATR Romanian Translators Association
www.ausit.org - AUSIT Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators
www.bdue.de - BDÜ (German Translators and Interpreters Association)
www.cbtip-bkvtf.org - CBTIP-BKVTF (Belgian Chamber of Translators, Interpreters and Philologists)
www.fit-ift.org - FIT (Fédération internationale des traducteurs)
www.atafl.org - FLATA (Florida Chapter of the ATA)
www.translatorsassociation.ie - ITA (Irish Translators' Association)
www.iol.org.uk - IoL (Institute of Linguists) One of two well-respected professional translating/interpreting/language bodies in the UK - useful source of information for everyone involved in language-related professions.
www.iti.org.uk - ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpretation, United Kingdom) The other highly respected UK body which provides essential information for language professionals.
www.attlc-ltac.org/LTAC/ATTLC - (Literary Translators' Association of Canada/Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada)
www.universitas.org - Österreichischer Übersetzer - und Dolmetscherverband
www.ottiaq.org - OTIAQ (Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes agréés du Québec)
www.arabicwata.org - WATA (World Arabic Translators' Association)
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