TRANSLATORS REGISTRATION QUICK GUIDE

New quick registration guide for translators.

Getting ready for International Translation Day 2019!

TRANSLATORS REGISTRATION QUICK GUIDE

Easy and simple. First, go to TranslatorsVillage web page

Click on Register  or Login at the top menu

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO REGISTER

1. Accept terms and conditions (check terms and conditions for translators)
2. If user email appears in red, then your email address is already registered. Go back to previous screen to the forgotten password link
3. You need to confirm the address is yours. Go to the address introduced and check for TranslatorsVillage email that validates your email address.
4. Once validated you are ready to log in and start inputting your details.

TIPS

• Mandatory fields have an asterisk.

• The better the quality of information you write about yourself, the more attractive your profile will be to potential clients.
• Short and to the point of what you want to show.
• Your telephone number is not visible to the client, but it is to the Administrator in case a quick contact is required.
• Calendar and rates are important to make you visible to potential clients.
• Don’t forget that people buy people, a professional picture can make a difference.
• CV is not visible to the client. Client wants a quick purchase in a marketplace, so a couple of paragraphs about yourself should suffice. Languages, specialisms are clear from client selection.

CV helps us to validate your profile.

Profiles will be validated every day before International Translation Day. After that it will be done once a week. 

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Happy International Translation Day

TranslatorsVillage new Web

Every year we strive to celebrate International Translation Day, a day we are all more aware of a profession that has become fundamental due to globalisation. From flash-mobs to meetings with translators and clients, always adding something interesting to this blog.

This year we have launched a new website!

Internet is a language in itself, evolving every day. This year we have decided to celebrate the day of translation with a new website, even more simple, and at the same time ...

• Safer. Migrating to https
• Easier access (connection via Facebook or Linkedin)
• Faster and responsive, changing according to the method accessed

We will continue to promote quality in translation, because communication is a daily challenge and when it comes to communicating in another language, the challenge is even greater.

In order to achieve this, we encourage collaboration...

• between translators and clients, so that they can also translate non-written speech; 
• between translation companies, so that together we can ensure that the language barrier ceases to exist; 
• with specialists in different activity sectors, and with different sectors related to languages (interpreting, voiceover, learning, e-learning…) 

This year, we have approached the small businesses and individuals and we have listened to their needs. In short: they want a more intuitive and friendly website.

Hopefully the new website can meet the needs of both our clients and translators and we look forward to the future growth of collaborations, partnerships and client service.

Our page will be finalised in a couple of weeks, but we wanted to give you a flavour of what is soon to come.

First step we will be inviting our translators to upload their new profiles, second step our partners will be joining in and, last but not least, we will invite our clients to join and share their experience.

Wishing you had a happy celebration of International Translation Day!

Farewell

We are travellers

When travelling languages become really important. That´s the reason why many translators live in different countries during their lives.

Saying goodbye to a country is hard and sad. Same happens in the virtual cloud space.

Our blog life started with Google blogger. The first steps of our life as bloggers were great and easy. When we reflect on our time here, we remember happy, fun and exciting moments. It has been definitely all worthwhile…but times change and so must we. We have decided to have our website and our blog in the same cloud. This will allow us to continue publishing in a more regular basis.

Our travel journey will reach new places and we hope you will be able to follow us there.

We will miss you until you come back, but we hope you will be able to continue travelling with us by following us to our new space.

Goodbye friends and wishing you Bon voyage and to see you in our new blog!

Translation Partners: Paving new Roads

Time to share our 2018 goals! 

(more than 10% of the year is gone)

This year, we are focusing on one main development, which has been in the company since the beginning: "growing the “village” side of TranslatorsVillage, the translation community, with translation partners, by expanding the space where people belong and grow together, making effective and innovative needs grow safely.

A combination of key partner collaboration and informal community participation within the company will result in different contributions and a rich variety of reliable local and specialized values characteristic of the organization.

Our core values also grow

• Providing opportunities for each partner company, as well as for the company itself, to develop its full potential. 
• Providing opportunities for partners to influence the company, and the environment. 
• Increasing the effectiveness of the company in terms of all of its goals. 

Urban configuration of our
translatorsvillage partnership programme

We have started to deploy the Local Presence in Europe with our Local Partners, because clients often need to speak their regional, language, culture and/or news: local language service providers with a focus on a language or regional languages will be in contact with our clients, as and when required.

TranslatorsVillage translation providers that are eager to cooperate with other-languages partners within a trustful ecosystem, and eager to go digital and become a benchmark reference.


And of the related new architecture has began to be deployed. As a result, TranslatorsVillage has a new Spanish District with our partner in Madrid; Nuadda, the local Spanish Language Service Provider.

Therefore, in our next blog article, we will be sharing an interview with our new partner.

Dezembro está quase a chegar, e já se começa a sentir o frio do Inverno!

O Outono começou com um espetacular Dia Internacional da Tradução!

Este ano, e pela primeira vez, as Nações Unidas celebraram o Dia Internacional da Tradução e nós, em conjunto com os tradutores, juntámo-nos a essa celebração...

  

Feliz Dia Internacional da Tradução

......e aqui para falar sobre este assunto, o nosso blogger convidado: Celebrando…- Manuel José González

Isto deu-nos a energia necessária para traduzir qual a nossa visão na TranslatorsVillage:

Pense global, atuando no local

A indústria global e o comércio internacional, sem ter de lidar com as dificuldades inerentes às diferenças culturais e barreiras linguísticas é agora possível.

Reuniões presenciais, no local, sempre foram um grande recurso quando o tema é negócios, e pode ser conveniente pensar localmente, mas com tradutores espalhados pelo mundo fora, dependendo das suas combinações linguísticas, disponibilidade e especialização, torna-se complicado. É aqui que o “know-how” e a experiência vêm ao seu encontro.

Se estiver sediado nos Países Baixos, a TranslatorsVillage proporciona-lhe agora o melhor dos seus tradutores, em qualquer parte do Mundo, oferecendo-lhe os seus conhecimentos e experiência, na sua língua nativa, para atender às suas necessidades locais.

E agora, antes do começo deste Inverno, vamos proporcionar-lhe tudo isto, também em Portugal e Espanha.

TranslatorsVillage - Trazendo o Mundo da Tradução até si! ​

Contacte a TranslatorsVillage em Portugal  / PT
Contacte a TranslatorsVillage nos Países Baixos / NL
Contacte a TranslatorsVillage em Espanha / ES

Não se esqueça de escolher a sua língua nativa!

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December is almost here, and it's beginning to feel like winter!

Autumn started with an amazing International Translations Day!

This year, the United Nations celebrates for the first time International Translation Day and we made sure we celebrated it together with translators...

...and we had our guest blogger writing about it: Celebrando…- Manuel José González

This gave us the energy to translate what is TranslatorsVillage vision:

Think globally, act locally
Global industry and international business trading without fighting with cultural differences and language barriers is mission impossible. Meeting locally, face-to-face, has always been a great asset when trading and it may be appropriate to think local, but translators are all around the world, depending on language combinations, availability and specialisation and this is where know-how and experience come to your aid.

If you are based in The Netherlands and want to communicate in your native language to cover your local needs TranslatorsVillage can now offer you the best of its translators’ knowledge and expertise, from all across the World.

...and before Winter, we are starting to provide this same approach in Portugal and Spain.

TranslatorsVillage - Bringing the World of Translation to your door!

Contact TranslatorsVillage in The Netherlands

Contact TranslatorsVillage in Portugal  

Contact TranslatorsVillage in Spain

Don´t forget to choose your country language!

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Celebrando el día de nuestro Santo Patrono

Divagaciones entre serias y superficiales de un filólogo aficionado* al trasvase de lenguas y culturas

Sonrojado y avergonzado hállome, debo confesarlo, pues, a pesar de mi avanzada edad, hasta hace unos días ignoraba que San Jerónimo fuera mi santo patrono.

Leonardo da Vinci

Para este laico amante del arte de la palabra y del pincel, por oficio y vocación, San Jerónimo de Estridón, nacido en la Galmacia romana, era el eremita, penitente decrépito de la oscura caverna de Leonardo Da Vinci, con el feroz león a sus pies. Muy distinto del "San Jerónimo escribiendo" de Caravaggio o el "San Jerónimo en su estudio de Durero" o el de la “Apoteosis de San Jerónimo” de Zurbarán en el monasterio de Guadalupe...por citar algunas de las históricas manifestaciones artísticas del pincel a nuestro maestro dedicadas.

 


Por supuesto, no ignoraba su labor como traductor del griego y del hebreo al latín de la famosa Vulgata, traducción completa de la Biblia. También sabía que fue obra de 23 años de duro trabajo y que escribía latín como los ángeles. También me era conocida su norma traductológica, expresada en su carta a Pammachius “Non verbum e verbo, set sensum exprimere de sensu”, la traducción expresando el sentido, teoría que completaría Martin Lutero, "palabra por palabra" en su traducción al alemán de la “Biblia para Todos”, auténtica “Vulgata”, puesto que “había que escribir como hablaba la vendedora en el mercado o el trabajador en el taller”.

Al evocar a Lutero traductor, en este 30 de septiembre, no puedo menos de recordar y solicitar el co-patronazgo de otro ilustre traductor, coetáneo (?) de San Jerónimo, Wulfilas o Ulfilas (311-388). El lobito, tal es el significado onomástico, célebre obispo y evangelizador arriano, fue el traductor de la Biblia del griego al gótico. El godo Wulfilas, de ascendencia romana, dominaba el latín, griego y por supuesto el gótico, y fragmentos de su obra se conservan en el Codex Argenteus de Upsala. Además de traductor fue lingüista pionero, ideando el alfabeto gótico a base del griego, el latín y el rúnico.

Sirva esta efemérides de homenaje y agradecimiento a nuestros padres-maestros de la traducción. A cuya nómina habrá que sumar, por su regia labor en el campo de la traducción, el nombre del Rey Sabio Alfonso X, fundador de la Escuela de Traductores de Toledo en el siglo XIII.

Ellos nos acompañan en nuestra diaria lucha callada por dar con la palabra más adecuada y justa, más bella y comunicativa. 

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Manuel José González García - traductor nonagenario y fuente de inspiración para TranslatorsVillage
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Mi batalla en el mundo de la traducción comenzó en la Universidad de la "Salmantica docet", aprendiendo de memoria – qué cosas se aprendían antaño – el “Atta unsar” en gótico, el “Vater unser” de Lutero y por supuesto el “Pater noster” de San Jerónimo. 

Nuestra profesion no tiene fronteras, ni espaciales ni temporales.
¡Y qué siga creciendo y vosotros, traductores, sigáis contribayendo al entendimiento y armonía entre los pueblos!

¡Feliz Día Internacional de la Traducción! 

TranslatorsVillage & VideoDubber working together

We are proud to announce our partnership with VideoDubber.

TranslatorsVillage & VideoDubber announced today the integration between the two development environments to streamline a new multi-language solution reinforcing global video growth. Combined quality translation and automated dubbing services in a simple workflow process to allow clients to communicate with a wide international market.

TranslatorsVillage has been a leading translation and customer care with a foundation rooted in communications and community interaction. TranslatorsVillage is a diverse company, with more than 1,000 translators from all around the world and with very different backgrounds, allowing the identification with a broad business range.

VideoDubber is the first online service to offer a technology platform that enables automatic dubbing of movies & videos, accurately dubbing informational types of video (e.g. documentary, lifestyle, e-learning, explanatory, testimonials, etc.) using premium digitised voices (which are based on the voice signature of professional dubbing talents). Those high-end digitised voices in more than 40 languages combined with the shortest turnaround time in the market, enable customers from the broadcast, e-learning, e-training and e-commerce markets, to leverage this technology and reach new markets, thus increase their ROI from their current videos inventory.

With our combined skills, we look forward to exceeding expectations for all of our clients needing their videos translated and dubbed with high quality standards.

Interested in having an instant quote on the dubbing-translating service combined? Click here.

Don't forget to introduce the promo code TRV, to benefit from our launch discount.

We welcome this great opportunity and would love to speak with you about how we can work together to assist your organization with more complex multilingual dubbing requirements.

Do not hesitate to contact us to setup an appointment and/or a demo.

TranslatorsVillage: The Facts

Everybody loves some statistics every now and then so we thought we'd put together some geeky graphics that tell you a little bit about who we are and what we do.

As you can see from the graphs above, the large majority of our registered translators live in Spain, leaving Italy and the UK battling it out for second place.

Not surprisingly, therefore, most of our translators are Spanish, or at least work with Spanish as their native language.

As the graph below shows, the TranslatorsVillage community is incredibly versatile and skilled in many different areas and industries. In terms of specialisms, though, it is Information and Communication that comes out top with Education and Accommodation & Food Service following closely behind.

Do you have a specialism or working language that doesn't appear on these graphics? Comment and let us know what they are!

Great day with Mundo Spanish team : Mundo Spanish conecta 1.400 empresas españolas en el extranjero

April Fool's Day Across the Globe

For one day a year, it is widely recognised and socially acceptable to be silly and play tricks on one another. In a tradition that dates back to the times of the Ancient Romans, pranking has evolved from slipping salt into tea instead of sugar to huge international companies fooling nations with their “newest inventions” (such as the PlayStation Flow) or latest “breaking news”.

As part of our mission to break down language barriers, we thought it would be a good idea to share some April Fool’s day traditions from across the globe. They say knowledge is power and the question is, will you use this knowledge wisely to avoid pranksters or will you become the prankster?

England

A straight-faced nation gets permission to be silly on the first of April every year. In England, you have until midday to play your tricks on your friends. I remember April Fool’s being especially fun when I was a child as we would add special “sugar” to our Dad’s tea which reacted in such a way that it would foam out of the cup. But it’s not just children that get involved as you have to be careful what you watch on the news on this particular day. 

One of Britain’s most famous pranks on the nation was pulled in 1957 when a BBC documentary was made on Spaghetti farming. The documentary showed a family in Switzerland growing spaghetti on ‘spaghetti trees’ and people even wrote to ask how they could grow their own spaghetti!

France

The French have a slightly more innocent trick to play on one another as they celebrate Poisson d’Avril (April Fish). The clue is in the name as children make a paper fish and stick it to their friend's back. They then have to run away and scream "Poisson d'Avril!", letting everyone within hearing distance know that they have just successfully pulled a prank. 

Portugal

If you happen to be in Portugal this April Fool's, be very weary of passersby who appear to be concealing something in their hands. Chances are it is going to be a handful of flour as the Portuguese celebrate 'Dia da Mentira' by throwing some flour in a poor, unsuspecting friend's face. 

India

India have  a tradition that is similar to Portugal's as they blow colourful powder at people to celebrate April Fool's day. Just as messy as Portugal, but in true Indian style, very colourful. Indian companies have pulled their nation's collective leg on more than one occasion but take a look at this advert for a new smartphone app that can kill mosquitoes - after all, there's an app for everything, right?

Sweden

The Swedes also love to have some fun on the 1st of April each year and much like the French, they have a short rhyme to say at the end of their pranks: “April, april din dumma sill, jag kan lura dig vart jag vill” (April, April you silly herring, I can fool you anywhere I want to). 

One of the most famous Swedish pranks pulled was in 1962 before the days of colour TV. The nation was told in a news bulletin that new software had been installed on their television sets and all they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over it to watch in colour. 

Turns out Sweden love their jokes so much that if you fail to trick someone on the 1st of April, you can try again on the 1st of May shouting “Maj, maj måne jag kan lura dig till Skåne” (May, May moon, I can trick you to Skåne) instead!

So there we go, some fun facts about April Fool's day in different cultures. I myself was perfectly fooled a few years ago as I tried to find an interesting article about Spanish festivals for homework. I came across an article on the internet about a fish and chip festival and thought I had struck gold. I even printed it out and started planning my presentation before I realised it was published on the 1st of April!

How do you celebrate April Fool's Day in your country? Or what is the best prank you have seen? We would love to hear from you!

Finally, if you're planning an office prank this year perhaps you should take some tips from the master of tricks Jim Halpert.

Katie Lovell

The adventure of the translation of names in Don Quixote

Quixote; Iribu - iribuilustracion.blogspot.com 

400 years after the death of Cervantes, his immortal Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance trouble continues to for translators and editors (transmitters of cultures and literatures in the world), when faced with the precious treasure of Cervantine place and personal names. In this important 2016 anniversary, we continue to argue about whether the proper names should be translated ... or not.

We want to take advantage of this year that is full of events in honour of Cervantes, and also pay our small tribute to this great master of language that gave so much importance to the invention of proper names and their meanings:

●        ¨ ... and it seemed to him that neither the Bucéfalo de Alejandro nor Babieca el del Cid equalled him.Four days were spent on thinking what name to choose..."

●        ¨ ... and so, after many names that he formed, erased and removed, added, unmade , and remade in his memory and imagination, he finally came to call him Rocinante, his name seemed high, resonant and meaningful "

●        Once named, a name he was most pleased with, he decided to choose one for himself, and in this thought he spent eight days, and afterwards he came to be called Don Quixote

Those are the giants translators have to face, to convert into their language this motley crowd of names of characters and places in Don Quixote. The fantastic inventions of extraordinary semantic and symbolic value, converted into windmills for conscious and meticulous translators.

We invite our readers from all corners of the world to share the translation of the 10 most powerful names of Don Quixote (second most translated book in the world):

1.            Caballero de la Triste Figura

2.            Caballero de la Ardiente Espada

3.            Caraculiabro

4.            Alifanfarón, señor de la grande isla Trapobana

5.            Miaulina, hija del duque Alfeñiquén de Algarve

6.            Brandabarbarán de Boliche, señor de las tres Arabias

7.            Pentapolín del Arremangado Brazo

8.            La doncella Placerdemivida

9.            Quirieleison de Moltalbán

10.          Espartafilardo del bosque (Rastreamisuerte)

Now we're really in the thick of it!

Manuel José González - Guest blogger

Katie Lovell - Translator