General Information
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www.personalweb.unito.it/mariacristina.caimotto
At the end of this lesson, please send me an [email protected]: [seminario traduzione] + your name and Proz page
10 lessons: Dates available on the website(no class next week!)
Online Resources for professional translators
Translation Seminar 2008-09
What is the goal of this presentation?
Provide links to useful online information
Provide guidelines on how to use it Explain the Kudoz system
(30 kudoz points = 1 extra mark for your final exam!)
A few tips to become a professional translator
Various kinds of resources
Online dictionaries Search engines Mailing lists Websites providing information Online communities (Kudoz) Official associationsPLEASE NOTICE THAT…
AUTOMATIC TRANSLATORS ARE NOT INCLUDED!
Online dictionaries
Use reliable dictionaries, not the first result you get on google
www.garzantilinguistica.it (free subscription)
www.demauroparavia.it http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ http://ec.europa.eu/eurodicautom/
Search engines
www.google.com You can use the Internet as a corpus
to verify your lexical choices Quick way to check spelling “unknown English term” + glossario
should provide an Italian glossary including the term you’re looking for
Websites providing information Company glossaries http://www.iltessile.it/dizionario.asp http://www.geatech.it/index.php?page=cat
alogo&mcat=1&cat=18&scat=30&art=304
www.iti.org.uk (Getting into translation) http://www.swan.ac.uk/sel/tranlink.htm
Mailing lists
www.vernondata.it/langit/index.html (Read the “Guida della Felicità” before you write anything)
www.yahoogroups.com Biblit (www.biblit.it) Intramel Lantra The checklist
Online communities
http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/Default.asp
www.proz.com Create your own profile Kudoz answers
Example:http://www.proz.com/profile/809804
Professional translators
Simon Turnerhttp://www.turner.it/tariffometro.htm (“Come diventare traduttore”)
www.aiti.org www.aitipvda.org
http://www.aniti.it http://www.assointerpreti.it
Don’t forget to send me an email
[email protected]: [seminario traduzione]Please includeYour nameThe link to your Proz page
Thank you!
