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Customer Reviews

Essential Preparatory info for the aspiring Translator

2008-06-19
I agree with the previous comments on Corinne's book. I found it throughly useful and practical, as well as her course. Both are a must for aspiring translators. The emphasis is on "practical", with essential information to make your career as a freelance translator successful..as the book says! enjoy and follow Corinne's advice!

Interesting and helpful

2008-05-31
Very interesting book, easy to read, refreshing and helpful. The author gives some web pages rather useful. She pictures the translator work in a quite optimistic way, somehow. But she also provides the necessary piece of advice to face the translation career. It is worth buying and reading, anyway.

Good information, easy to read

2008-03-25
This book has a lot of easy to read information. It has tips on how to organize a home office, how to manage time and lots of examples of correspondence between a beginning freelancer and potential clients. Useful and pertinent.

Very good, if thin

2008-02-09
The author obviously knows a lot about the subject, and does a good job of covering all the important aspects of the business. However, the book is a bit short, sacrificing depth for breadth. It's a good resource, though.

You want to start right now? Buy it!

2007-09-29
This book is really good. If you want to start working and don't want to read endless theories about translating buy it.

A Good Introduction to the Business Side of Freelancing

2007-06-13
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A must for any freelance translator

2007-04-06
The definition of a translator is a person who translates written messages from one language to another. Unfortunately, when you study to become one in college, you do not learn the business side of it. There is no textbook or class on that subject. It is just not part of the college cursus. They only teach you to become an in-house translator.You usually try to get some experience first before you start your freelance business.

So, when you are not prepared at all, you waste time, energy, and money in setting your business in doing so. By taking Corinne's class ( yes, she even offers an online class (6-weeks) to support her book) and reading her book: you avoid all that. As a new freelance translator, this is the PERFECT class to take before starting working. Gradually, Corinne will explain to you what to do and how to do it. One piece of advice though: ORGANIZATION. Without it, you will not go very far. I know... by experience.

Good Luck and Enjoy the book and ....the class.

Excellent practical guide for beginning / aspiring translators

2006-07-17
It has long been very difficult to get information about careers in foreign languages: translation, interpreting, etc. Even at the college level, most foreign language departments are focused on purely academic subjects such as literature, grammar, etc., and few instructors can provide guidance to their students about what they can actually DO with their education once they complete it. This book does an excellent job of filling that need. I have been a full-time free-lance professional technical translator for over ten years, and I had a rocky road getting where I am today. I wish I had had a book like this to guide me when I was younger.