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- take an ebook in your target language that you wanna read - convert epub to txt - copy txt into unique wordlist maker (http://caerphoto.com/uwc/) - remove words in the list you already know - maybe focus on keeping the high frequency new words - make this list into flashcard deck badda bing badda boom
I did this with my Turkish copy of Animal Farm and pulled 212 new words for my Quizlet deck
So you want to be a translator: online resources and books for translation students. Aside from translation specific resources, there are also related materials you can look into to improve your work and knowledge. Some Interpreting material in here as well.
As a disclaimer, I have not read all of these books (yet). The most highly recommended will be bolded. Keep in mind I am entering my second year in university and have much left to discover. Feel free to suggest titles, blogs and websites for the masterpost!
I will be linking this masterpost in my sidebar and updating it often. Remember to check book ratings and reviews before purchasing!
Translation Books:
A Practical Guide to Localization by Bert Esselink
Becoming A Translator by Douglas Robinson
Companion Book for Translators and Interpreters: 100+ Key English-Spanish Medical Terms by José Luis Leyva
Companion Book for Translators and Interpreters: the 1000+ Key English-Spanish Legal Terms You Will Need to Know by José Luis Leyva
Conference Interpreting by Andrew Gillies
Experiences in Translation by Umberto Eco
Exploring Translation Theories by Anthony Pym
Found In Translation by Natally Kelly and Jost Zetzsche
How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator by Corinne McKay
In Other Words: A Coursebook On Translation by Mona Baker
Introducing Translation Studies by Jeremy Munday
Introduction to Court Interpreting by Holly Mikkelson
Is That A Fish In Your Ear? by David Bellos
Maintaining Your Seocond Language by Eve Lindemuth Bodeux
Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting by Andrew Gillies
Os Tradutores na HistĂłria by Jean Delisle
Research Methods in Interpreting by Sandra Hale and Jemina Napier
Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha
The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business School Approach to Freelance Translation by Judy and Dagmar Jenner
The Poetics of Translation by Willis Barnstone
The Prosperous Translator by Chris Durban
Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays
Thoughts on Translation by Corinne McKay
Translating Literature by André Lefevere
Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Juliane House
Translation, History & Culture by Susan Bassnet
Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present by Juliane House
Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How A Chinese Poem Is Translated by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz
Translation Books in Portuguese:
A Tradução Literåria por Paulo Henriques Britto
A Tradução Vivida por Paulo Rónai
Conversas com Tradutores por Ivone C. Benedetti e Adail Sobral
Da Tradução Automåtica à Tradução Manual por Liliana Pereira
Escola de Tradutores por Paulo RĂłnai
Fidus interpres por Fabio M. Said
Guia Pråtico de Tradução Inglesa por Agenor Soares dos Santos
LĂnguas, Poetas e BacharĂ©is: uma CrĂŽnica da Tradução no Brasil por Lia Wyler
Oficina de Tradução: A Teoria na Pråtica por Rosemary Arrojo
O Jeito Que A Gente Diz por Stella Tagnin
O Que é Tradução por Geir Campos
Os Labirintos da Tradução: A Legendagem Cinematogråfica e a Construção do Imaginårio
Perdidos na Tradução por Iuri Abreu
Porque usar programas de apoio à tradução? (Download PDF) por Danilo Nogueira
Procedimentos TĂ©cnicos da Tradução por HeloĂsa Gonçalves Barbosa
Quase a Mesma Coisa por Umberto Eco
Sua Majestade, O Intérprete por Ewandro Magalhães Jr.
Teorias Contemporùneas da Tradução por Edwin Gentzler
Tradução, Ato Desmedido por Boris Schnaiderman
Tradução e Adaptação por Lauro Amorim
Tradução e Cultura por Cynthia Ann Bell-Santos
Tradução e Dialogismo por Heber de Oliveira Costa Silva
Tradução e Multidisciplinaridade por Marcia A. P. Martins
Tradução de Humor: Transcriando Piadas por Marta Rosas
Tradução Para Dublagem por Ana Carolina Konecsni
Traduzir com Autonomia por Adriana Pagano, Célia Magalhães e Fabio Alves
Vocabulando - VocabulĂĄrio PrĂĄtico InglĂȘs-PortuguĂȘs por Isa Mara Lando
Translation Books in Italian:
Dire Quasi la Stressa Cosa di Umberto Eco
Online Reading:
Endonyms and Exonyms by Mabel Duran Sanchez
The Subtle Gap Between Being Bilingual and Being a Translator by Jacobe
Translation of Geographical Names by Gilberto Castañeda-Hernåndez
Recommended Reading List:
Course In General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury
How To Do Things With Words by J. L. Austin
Mastering Services Pricing by Kevin Doolan
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer and James Champy
The Culture of Collaboration by Evan Rosen
Time Management for Freelancers: A Self-Paced Course for Freelance Translators and Other Solopreneurs by Nicole Y. Addams
Recommended Reading List (PT):
O Corpo Fala: A Linguagem Silenciosa da Comunicação por Pierre Weil e Roland Tompakow
Blogs:
A Arte da Tradução (Portuguese)
About Translation (English)
Adventures in Freelance Translation (English)
All In Portuguese (Portuguese and English)
Blogging with Swedish Translation Services (English)
Brave New Worlds (English)
BTS Blog (English)
BTS Blog (Portuguese)
Ecos da Tradução (Portuguese)
Ewandro MagalhĂŁes (English)
Fidus Interpres (German)
Musings from and overworked translator (English)
Naked Translations (English)
Pribi (Portuguese)
Tecla SAP (Portuguese)
Thoughts on Translation (English)
Tradução Via Val (Portuguese)
Transblawg (English)
Translation Client Zone (English)
Translation Times (English)
Translation Tribulations (English)
Translatorâs Digest (English)
Trusted Translations (English)
Want Words (English)
Websites:
American Translators Association (English)
Associação Brasileira de Tradutores (Portuguese)
Céline Graciet (English to French)
Ewandro MagalhĂŁes (English to Portuguese, maybe more)
International Medical Interpreters Association (English)
Jill Sommer (German to English)
Karen Tkaczyk (French to English)
Marketing Tips for Translators
Marta Stelmaszak (English to Polish)
Petra Schweitzer (English to German)
Thomas Bosch (English to German)
Podcasts:
Marketing Tips for Translators (English)
Speaking of Translation (English)
TradCast (Portuguese)
Presentations:
Comparable Corpora for Terminology by Stella Tagnin
Presentations in Portuguese:
Convencionalidade e Tradução por Stella Tagnin
Corpora e Tradução por Anne Frankenberg-Garcia
Informåtica Aplicada à Tradução por UCP Pós-graduação em tradução
LinguĂstica de Corpus e Tradução por Stella Tagnin
Memórias de Tradução por Universidade de Aveiro
Software:
MemoQ
Microsoft Office
ProMT
ProMT English <> Portuguese
SDL Trados Studio
Systran
Wordfast
On Freelancing:
Freelancing as a Stay-at-Home Parent
How I Built My Direct Client Base (Without Using Translation Portals)
How to Retain Freelance Clients
Make A Living Writing
Using LinkedIn Efficiently to Find Translation Clients
Yearly Events:
ATA Annual Conference (USA)
IAMIA Annual Conference (USA)
International ABRATES Congress (Brazil)
ProfT (Brazil)
TRADUSA: Encontro Brasileiro de Tradutores Especializados na Ărea da SaĂșde (Brazil)
Other:
Fluxo de trabalho para integrar ProMT e MemoQ
Localization and Translation Resources
thinking about âyou havenât met all the people who will love youâ and like!!! you also havenât found all the things that will make you happy!!!! there will always be new authors and musicians and artists whose work you will one day discover and love!!!! there will always be new hobbies and skills for you to learn and feel fulfilled by!!! there will always be new things around the corner that will bring sudden and unexpected happiness!!!!!!!!!!!
The âgetting it done in an unconventional wayâ method.
The âitâs not cheating to do it the easy wayâ method.
The âfuck what youâre supposed to doâ method.
The âget stuff done while you waitâ method.
The âyou donât have to do everything at onceâ method.
The âit doesnât have to be permanent to be helpfulâ method.
The âbreak the task into smaller stepsâ method.
The âtreat yourself like a petâ method.
The âit doesnât have to be all or nothingâ method.
The âput on a personaâ method.
The âact like youâre filming a tutorialâ method.
The âyou donât have to do it perfectlyâ method.
The âwait for a triggerâ method.
The âdo it for your future selfâ method.
The âmight as wellâ method.
The âwhen self discipline doesnât cut itâ method.
The âtaking care of yourself to take care of your petâ method.
The âmake it easyâ method.
The âjunebuggingâ method.
The âjust show upâ method.
The âaccept when you need helpâ method.
The âmake it into a gameâ method.
The âeverything worth doing is worth doing poorlyâ method.
The âtrick yourselfâ method.
The âbreak it into even smaller stepsâ method.
The âlet go of shouldâ method.
The âyour body is an animal you have to take care ofâ method.
The âfork theoryâ method.
The âeffectivity over aestheticsâ method.
Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Hereâs a comprehensive list with descriptions! Iâve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know!
Lingthusiasm A podcast thatâs enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne (thatâs me!). Main episodes every third Thursday of every month, with a second bonus episode on Patreon. (Transcripts for all episodes)
Talk the Talk Every week Daniel, Ben, and Kylie cover the news in linguistics and tackle a particular topic.
The Vocal Fries Every episode Carrie Gillon & Megan Figueroa tackle linguistic discrimination in relation to a particular group. (Transcripts for some episodes)
En Clair A podcast about forensic linguistics from Dr Claire Hardaker at Lancaster University. Episodes released monthly, with a range of topics from criminal cases to literary fraud. (Transcripts for all episodes)
Accentricity From Sadie Durkacz Ryan, a lecturer in sociolinguistics at Glasgow University. Season one has six episodes.
Field Notes Martha Tsutsui Billins interviews linguists about their linguistic fieldwork.
The Allusionist Stories about language and the people who use it, from Helen Zaltzman (Transcripts for all episodes) (my review)
Grammar Girl Episodes are rarely longer than 15 minutes, but theyâre full of tips about English grammar and style for professional writing, and more! (Transcripts for all episodes).
The World in Words From PRI, The World in Words has been delivering wonderful interview-drive stories about language and life since 2008.
Conlangery Particularly for those with an interest in constructed languages, they also have episodes that focus on specific natural languages, or linguistic phenomena.Â
Subtext a podcast about the linguistics of online dating.
Canguro English a podcast about language for people learning languages.
History of English Meticulously researched, professionally produced and engaging content on the history of English. I have already reviewed it three times (episodes 1-4, episodes 5-79, bonus episodes).
Lexicon Valley Hosted by John McWhorter, with a focus on English.
Thatâs What They Say Every week linguist Anne Curzan joins Rebecca Kruth on Michigan public radio for a five minute piece on a quirk of English language.
A Way With Words A talk-back format show on the history of English words, cryptic crosswords and slang.
Word For Word From Macquarie dictionary, with a focus on Australian English.
Fiat Lex A podcast about making dictionaries from Kory Stamper & Steve Kleinedler.
Word Bomb Hosts Pippa Johnstone and Karina Palmitesta explore one explosive word per week, using particular words for a deep dive into linguistic and social issues.
Words for Granted In each episode Ray Belli explores the history of a common English word in around fifteen minutes.
Very Bad Words A podcast about swearing and our cultural relationship to it.
Lexitecture Ryan, a Canadian, and Amy, a Scot share their chosen word each episode.
Wordy Wordpecker Short weekly episodes from Rachel Lopez, charting the stories of English words.
Animology Vegan blogger Colleen Patrick Goudreau uses her love of animals as a starting point for exploring animal-related etymologies.
Speaking of Translation A monthly podcast from Eve Bodeux & Corinne McKay.
LangFM Stories of people from the world of language, including interpreters, translators, dialect coaches and many more.
Troublesome Terps The podcast about the things that keep interpreters up at night.
There are also a number of podcasts that have only a few episodes, are no longer being made, or are very academic in their focus:
Language Creation Society Podcast (8 episodes, 2009-2011)
Given Names (four part radio series from 2015, all about names. My review)
Speculative Grammarian Podcast (from the magazine of the same name, about 50 episodes from Dec 2009-Jan 2017)
Linguistics Podcast (on YouTube, around 20 episodes in 2013 introducing basic linguistic concepts)
Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library (8 episodes 2018), from the British Library.
How Brands are Build (season 1 of this show focuses on brand naming)
The Endless Knot is not strictly a language podcast, but they often include word histories, fans of the Lingthusiasm colour episode may find their colour series particularly interesting
Word of Mouth (BBC 4, also available as a podcast)
LingLab (very occasionally updated podcast from graduate students in the Sociolinguistics program at NC State University)
Silly Linguistics (ad hoc episode posting, but episode 7 is an interview with Kevin Stroud for History of English fans)
WACC Podcast (guest lectures at Warwick Applied Linguistics)
Sage Language and Linguistics
Letâs Talk Talk
Queer Linguistics has a couple of episodes, with a bit of classroom vibe
GradLings An occasionally-updated podcast for linguistics students at any stage of study, to share their stories and experiences.Â
This is a completely revised listing from March 2019, with some sporadic updates. Iâm always excited to be able to add more podcasts to the list, so if you know of any linguistics/language podcasts not here, please let me know! (I usually wait until a show has at least 3 episodes before I add it to the list)
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Hey phoebe, I have no choice but to keep up with my coursework and I'm having a hard time. Since the Covid lockdown began I've lost motivation, along with my appetite and the will to get out of bed before noon. My brain's in a fog of worry and sadness but I'm not sure how to push past it or stop beating myself up for not being productive.
wow that sounds so tough, my love. I would so recommend reaching out to mental health resources for online counselling such as beyondblue to help with your struggles. Itâs not easy being in that place and the best thing you could do for yourself is seek professional guidance.Â
Other things that help with low moods are setting a routine that involves:
- messaging friends and family (social fulfilment) - exercise (even 10 mins, try and get your heart rate up!) - journaling (get those unhelpful thoughts out of your head and onto paper) - to-do lists of a max of 3 things per day (It can be even as small as making your bed or having a shower) -self comfort (do things for you PURELY because you like it and you find joy in it, eg. watch a show you like, take a bath, these things don't have to be treated as rewards, you deserve to feel good)
You do NOT have to be productive every moment of every day. Start small and build back up. Set an alarm for 11am, make your bed and grab some water. That can be where you start, you are only human, my love. Be gentle with yourself, get one thing done at a time because that is all you can do. Focus on one task at a time till completion and thank yourself for taking time to do that for yourself. Everything you do is in appreciation of you and the opportunity you have been given to do the things you choose. I know what itâs like to be where you are, to have lost all sense of happiness and self. Build yourself up and start small, the first step is talking with loved ones about it. Itâs easier to care for yourself once you realise that other people do as well, to remember you are valued, because I promise you, you are. <3 I love you. Please stay safe.