Slovo, Podcast of the ATA Slavic Languages Division

In this episode, we welcome a special guest. Chris Durban is a French>English translator based in Paris, specializing in finance and corporate communications. She is an active member of the translation community (despite her low profile on social media), the co-author of The Prosperous Translator", and a contributor to "101 Things a Translator Needs to Know". In this interview, she talks about the importance of embracing risk and standing out.

Chris Durban's blog: https://chrisdurbanblog.com/

In this episode our guest Julia Poger, a conference interpreter and interpreter trainer, shares her thoughts on running a translation and interpreting business like a business, marketing and negotiating, communicating with clients, and standing out from the competition. Julia has been a member of ATA and AIIC since the beginning of her career. She runs a popular seminar “Know Your Worth: Understanding Marketing and Negotiating for Interpreters”.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

Connect with Julia Poger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliapoger/

https://twitter.com/Julia_Poger

Julia Poger’s articles for AIIC: https://aiic.net/search/authors/1635

“Know Your Worth”seminar: https://kyw-seminar.com/

Pia Silva and her courses: https://www.piasilva.com/

Marie Forleo’s B-School: https://www.marieforleo.com/bschool/

Reach out to the ATA SLD podcast: [email protected]

Tune in as we chat with Alaina Brandt, Localization Project Manager & Spanish to English Translator, CEO, Founder & Data Security Officer of Afterwords Translations, LLC, and Assistant Professor of Translation and Localization Management at MIIS. We talk about the role of localization project managers, their interaction with translators, and the need for more education in localization project management.

Alaina's website: https://www.afterwords-t9n.com/

MIIS MA program in Translation and Localization: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/degree-programs/translation-localization-management

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Episode 12 is our first episode of 2019! The topic of this year's podcast season is "Business Matters". In this episode we're speaking with Sara Maria Hasbun. She is a linguist, an entrepreneur, and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics.

https://www.meridianlinguistics.com/

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This is the third episode in a three-episode series, and today we're speaking about the ATA-59 presentations on Saturday, October 27.

Visit the conference website: www.atanet.org/conf/2018/

SHOW NOTES:

01:42

Mike Collins

Son of Verbing: Your Way to a Better Translation (110) // Saturday 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. - Studio 2

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124581&header=&basic=

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-collins-b959a8119/

12:07

Silvia D'Amico and Catherine Christaki

Parents by Day, Translators by Night: Can They Really Do It All? (146) // Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – Acadia

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124585&header=&basic=

https://www.damicotranslations.com/

https://linguagreca.com/

Recommended resources:

https://twitter.com/translationtalk

https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Morning-Entrepreneurs-Elevate-BUSINESS-ebook/dp/B01M0D5591

34:30

Michele Hansen and Stephen Volante

Mind Your P's and Q's: Translation and Interpreting in International Development (134) //Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Galerie 1

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124632&header=&basic=

Michele’s website : http://globalhealthlanguage.com/

Stephen’s website : http://volantetranslation.com/

56:45

Ekaterina Howard

Just a Freelancer? What Other Industries Can Teach Us (132) // Saturday 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. – Acadia

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124645&header=&basic=

Ekaterina’s website: http://pinwheeltrans.com/

Hotjar The Humans Strike Back podcast: https://www.hotjar.com/humans

Hillary Weiss & positioning statement framework http://hillaryweiss.com/statementpieceframework

Ryan Swift's The Track interview with Jo Hoffberg with the amazing positioning statement:

http://www.thetrackpodcast.com/episodes/011

Jo Hoffberg & Kevin St. Laurent (shake that thing): https://youtu.be/pT2h5WiJ7Qc

Copy Hackers. Copywriting formulas: https://copyhackers.com/2015/10/copywriting-formula/

Do 7 sweeps EVERY time you work on your website:

https://copyhackers.com/how-to-edit-for-clarity/

https://copyhackers.com/voice-and-tone/

https://copyhackers.com/edit-believability-sweeps-3-4/

https://copyhackers.com/how-to-be-specific/

https://copyhackers.com/the-heightened-emotion-sweep/

https://copyhackers.com/the-zero-risk-sweep/

Lianna Patch and humor in copy: https://www.punchlinecopy.com/

And Justin Blackman (Pretty Fly for a Write Guy) https://prettyflycopy.com/

01:08:34

Mercedes Guhl

Translating Books: A Race for Endurance Runners, Part I (129) // Saturday 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. - Studio 8

Translating Books: A Race for Endurance Runners, Part II (143) // Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Studio 8

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124629&header=&basic=

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mercedes-guhl-65396994/?originalSubdomain=mx

http://www.ata-divisions.org/LD/index.php/speaker-lineup/mercedes-guhl/

traduzcoluegoescribo.mercedesguhl.com/

01:36:43

Ewandro Magalhaes

7 Things a Chief Interpreter Wishes You Knew (172)// Saturday 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. - Studio 9

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124681&header=&basic=

Ewandro’s website: https://ewandro.com/

MUSIC:

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This is the second episode in a three-episode series, and today we're speaking about the ATA-59 presentations on Friday, October 26.

SHOW NOTES:

01:35

Elizabeth Adams

Better Online Searches: It's All in Your Head (103) // Friday 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. - Studio 10

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124534&header=&basic=

Recommended resources: searchresearch1.blogspot.com

11:15

Larry Bogoslaw

How to Get Tense: Translating Verbs Into and Out of Slavic Languages (052) // Friday 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. - Studio 3

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124556&header=&basic=

Recommended resources:

http://www.bbc.com

http://www.un.org

23:45

Veronika Demichelis and Natalia Noland

Oh, the Places You'll Go! Implementing Quality Metrics in Translation Training Based on Industry Standards and Best Practice (079) // Friday 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. - Galerie 4

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124591&header=&basic=

Program page: www.hccs.edu//translate-interpret

https://www.facebook.com/hccti

https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronika-demichelis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-noland-906021132

Recommended resources: https://www.taus.net

32:20

Winnie Heh

A Brave New World of Career Possibilities for Linguists: How to Optimize Your Contribution (074) //

Friday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Acadia

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124636&header=&basic=

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/winnie-yung-chung-heh

38:35

Corinne McKay and John Milan

Pricing Your Work: Using Objective Data to Set Your Freelance Rates (104) //

Friday 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. - Acadia

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124692&header=&basic=

https://www.atanet.org/governance/governance_board_bios.php

https://translatewrite.com

http://www.milanlanguageservices.com

01:03:33

Elena Morrow

Legal Issues and Reporting Requirements for Staff Health Care Interpreters (085) //

Friday 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. - Studio 7

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124702&header=&basic=

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/interpreting_services

https://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medicalcenter/stories/morrow_09042008.html

01:16:25

Lydia Stone

Boning Up on Phrasal Verbs (101) // Friday 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. - Studio 8

50 (or so) Ways to Leave Your Author: When Is Infidelity Forgivable in Poetry Translation? (175) //

Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Studio 3

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124769&header=&basic=

01:39:54

Ana Lis Salotti

A Journey of 10,000 Miles: Translating Environmental Nonfiction (053) //

Friday 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. - Studio 4

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124745&header=&basic=

https://www.analistranslations.com

01:51:36

Madalena Zampaulo

How to Use a Free Project Management Tool to Plan, Manage, and Grow in Your Profession (059) //

Friday 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. - Acadia

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124747&header=&basic=

https://www.madalenazampaulo.com

https://asana.com

The Asana HQ course: https://meganminns.thinkific.com/courses/asana-hq?ref=7e542d

01:59:23

Jost Zetzsche

Language Technology Wiki: A Place to Shape Translation and Interpreting Technology (063) //

Friday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Galerie 3

https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124804&header=&basic=

http://www.internationalwriters.com

http://www.langtech.wiki

We are getting ready for the upcoming ATA conference in NOLA! Join us as we chat with the speakers whose presentations we're most excited about!

This is the first episode in a three-episode series, and today we're speaking about the presentations on Wednesday, October 24 and Thursday, October 25.

Visit the conference website: http://www.atanet.org/conf/2018/

SHOW NOTES:

02:11

Athena Matilsky

Skill-Building for the Seasoned Interpreter (AST-2) // Wednesday 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Studio 3

Ethics in the Real World (072) // Friday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Studio 9

Two Roads Diverge: Medical Interpreting versus Legal Interpreting (142) // Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Studio 7

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124687&header=&basic=

Athena’’s website: https://athenaskyinterpreting.com/

19:40

Jay Marciano

NMT and Me: Securing Your Future as a Language Professional in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Machine Translation (AST-11) // Wednesday 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Future Tense: How Artificial Intelligence and Neural Machine Translation Are Shaping Our Industry (018) // Thursday 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. - Galerie 3

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124686&header=&basic=

44:20

Sameh Ragab

The Definitive Guide to Making the Internet and Its Technologies Work Better for Translators (AST-3) // Wednesday 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124733&header=&basic=

Sameh’s website: http://www.arabianatrans.com/

50:41

Manuela Sampaio

Project Management Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Freelancers (029) // Thursday 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. - Acadia

Conference session info: https://tools.eventpower.com/website_gizmos/widget/speaker_detail/18ATA-ANNUAL?key=63935b&speaker_id=124746&header=&basic=

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelasampaio/

MUSIC:

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Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

"Southside" by Lee Rosevere from the Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org)

Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

In this episode, we talk to Alyssa Yorgan-Nosova about her experience taking the localization certificate program at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Links:

Alyssa's website: http://www.fromrussianwithstyle.com/

Program website: https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/localization-customizing-software-for-the-world

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In this episode, we interview Evgeniy Bartov, a well-known Russian translator, copywriter, and owner of the Alliance PRO translation agency and a translation school.

Links:

http://tran.su/

http://aplsp.com/

http://apschool.ru/

http://apschool.ru/2018/05/12/perevodcheskoe-redaktirovanie-v-vuze

http://apschool.ru/2018/03/12/project-based-learning-v-vuze-ili-sbor-grabel-po-praktike-perevoda

http://apschool.ru/perevodim-biznes-kontent-po-vzroslomu-v-proekte

http://apschool.ru/kurs-perevod-marketingovyh-tekstov-s-nadezhdoj-kazantsevoj

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8B-evgeniy-bartov/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_recent_activity_details_shares%3BrBU55yUJQie26Ey5aK1Fig%3D%3D

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In this episode, we meet Elana Pick and Yuliya Tsaplina to discuss the importance of professional training for interpreters and the future of this profession.

More information about the MCI program at Glendon College: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/interpretation/

About our guests:

Yuliya Tsaplina received an MA in Conference Interpretation from ESIT – a graduate school of interpretation and translation in Paris in 2002. She then came back to NY and worked as a freelance conference interpreter based out of New York and Washington, DC until 2013, when she moved back to Paris with her family. Since 2012 Yuliya has been teaching conference interpretation at the MCI – Master in Conference Interpretation program at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Canada. Recently she also started teaching conference interpretation at ISIT, one of Paris’s two interpretation schools.

Her email is [email protected]

Elana Pick graduated from the Tbilisi Foreign Languages Teachers Training Institute and Moscow State University School of Journalism, has a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Degree from the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Based in New York, she currently teaches court interpreting at the MCI program at Glendon College, Toronto, Canada, also taught at NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is an ATA Certified (EN>RU) translator, a grader, and a Court-approved interpreter.

Her email is [email protected]

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