Registration is now open for the 61st Annual Conference (October 21-24, 2020) of the American Translators Association (ATA). I want to st...

When I was 13 years old, I decided I'd be a translator. Back then, I often found myself translating songs from English into Spanish. Thos...

When I began translating for the healthcare industry, one of my first challenges was abbreviations. Not only does the meaning of some abb...

My post Lean Times explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting my business. Like many others in my profession, I’ve seen a work...

Plain language is clear and avoids complex words. It is easy to read, understand, and act upon after just one reading. These are the main...

Gratitude goes a long way! I'm a certified professional translator (English into Spanish and Catalan) who helps businesses connect with t...

One of the stories in the Torah tells that Joseph is asked to interpret a dream of Pharaoh about seven fat cows and seven lean cows. Jose...

In 2017, I deleted my personal social media profiles. I had already quit Facebook three years earlier due to privacy concerns, but I kept...

Two years ago, I almost lost all my computer data. I shut down my computer on a Friday afternoon. When I turned it on again two days late...

The first time I visited the US was in September of 2013. My now-spouse and I were then in a long-distance relationship. While I found Ch...

The last month of 2019 is here, and the holiday season will be in full bloom soon! The holiday season is the time of the year from late N...

How do you know if a translator is qualified? Just as you expect accountants and teachers to have credentials, the same goes for translat...

In my lifetime, I've experienced the loss of close people go, such as my parents, my grandparents, and other relatives. However, I had ne...

Three years ago, I moved from Barcelona to Chicago. Among many other things, relocating to the US allowed me to: Obtain the ATA certifica...

In 2017, I passed the ATA certification exam in the English into Spanish pair. I took the computerized version of the test, so I brought ...

Some of you might now know it yet, but I am not a big fan of social media. I'm only on LinkedIn because it is low-maintenance and has pro...

After I relocated to the U.S. in 2016, I became determined to make a living as a full-time, freelance language services provider (LSP). A...

I’ve mentioned previously that not all my jobs have been related to the translation and localization sector. I only started freelancing f...

One can have two or more native languages. Although I identify Catalan as my preferred language, I grew up in a household that spoke Span...

Dead Can Dance—a band formed in 1981 in Melbourne (Australia)—continues to this day to produce unique material that combines the voices o...