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Morry Sofer (Author)
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1887563482 978-1887563482 January 15, 2000 3rd Edition
Fully revised for the year 2000, this is the book translators everywhere have come to rely on. It covers everything related to translation, from the history and theory of translation, to ways to improve one's skills, to sources of dictionaries, and how to obtain translation work.


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Now in an updated and expanded third edition, The Translator's Handbook serves as a superbly practical guide to the translation profession... shows how to develop your own language and writing skills in the translation field, create your own base of professional translation tools, sell your services... and many hundreds of sources of translation work in today's global economy and multinational corporations, governmnetal agencies, and non-profit organizations. -- The Midwest Book Review, December 1999

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The author is the founder of a leading translation company in the U.S., author of many books on translation, and editor of several dictionaries. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Schreiber,Shengold Publishing; 3rd Edition edition (January 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1887563482
  • ISBN-13: 978-1887563482
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,167,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A very, very practical view., October 12, 2005
I teach an internship in translation/interpreting ... well, "teach" is the wrong word. All the students have internships, and we meet once a week to discuss their experiences. This is the perfect textbook-they already know how to translate; what they need to know is how to do so as a career. They won't learn that from introductory translation books (which are very good at what they do); no introductory textbook is going to tell you to join the American Translators Association and buy a CAT program!

If you're looking for a book to teach you to translate, this isn't it. This book is geared towards people who have already started working in the field: it deals with where and how to get work, what fields need translators, where to find T&I classes, useful dictionaries, professional organizations, and so on. If you've been working as a translator for awhile, you'll probably know everything in the first half of the book (though it will still be useful for the appendices). The people who will benefit most from this book are those who have started translating professionally or are seriously considering doing so and want something to show what the experience of being a translator is actually about.

Unfortunately this book isn't as "updated" as it could be. The latest edition still lists essential computer equipment as "Windows 3.0+ with 500MB of memory and a 3½" disk drive." But putting that aside, it's a good book. Especially for $17.
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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Buy something else if you want to learn how to translate, October 6, 2004
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As a translator student in good old Germany I know something about translation and interpreting. This book contains a lot of useful things; but not the things I was looking for.

The author says something about history, dictonaries, glossaries, translation memory and gives many URLs, but he fails in his attempt to teach HOW TO TRANSLATE. This book deals with WHEN, WHERE and WHAT to translate. Therefore, this book is NOT useful for learning HOW to translate - even if the author tells you this. It needs more than this book to acquire the skills you need to start a freelance career.

You may buy this book if your goal is to find out how many transation agency this world has to offer, what area is best for you and with which URL you may chat to other translators. Furthermore, you will find scores of dictionaries nobody knows (or needs).

Three stars because of:
- sometimes useful information
- a lot of URLs
- scores of dictionaries
- many many addresses of translation agencies
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, July 22, 2000
This review is from: The Translator's Handbook, Third Edition (Paperback)
It's a great book for those who want to succeed as freelance translators, it includes lots of tips and provides useful appendixes containing information such as: Dictionaries, sources of work and a glossary. A must have for those who want to enter the translation field and an excellent reference book for those who already work as translators.
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uses freelance translators, prospective translators, accepts unsolicited resumes, translation career, foreign language software, translator organizations, consecutive interpreting, legal translation, freelance translation, translation company, software localization, terminology management, rendering translations, translation assignments, medical translation, translation companies, translation agencies, technical dictionary, technical translation, interpreter training, technical translator, translation agency, des traducteurs, translation field, translation memory
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