I'm translating part of a novel for my thesis. The novel is written entirely in French, but sometimes the characters are diegetically speaking English (as in, the reader understands that they're speaking English even though their words are still being written in French), which is also the language of my translation. Is there a theory about the process of translating a work into the language that the characters are diegetically speaking? Or at least a theory about translating a text where the source text has a dissonance between the language they are diegetically speaking and the language that is on the page?

EDIT: Thanks for your recommendations! I do want to clarify though that I am specifically looking for something I could cite.

This has happened multiple times, across many fields (though I primarily work in translation) Client asks for a test (which is SOP) I complete and submit. Then...no reply. I check back in a week. Still no reply.

Sometimes there is a legit reason (holiday, swamped etc) but more often that not, nothing. I already spent time and effort on the test, so some kind of feedback would be appreciated, if even a polite no.

I do my homework and check Glassdoor/Trustpilot, but even reputable companies do this (I was once ghosted by Google after an interview)

How do you all deal with this?

اي شخص متخصص في مجال ترجمة عربي انجليزي احتاج نصيحتك لطالب في السنة إلي قبل الأخيرة من التخرج
ك تخصص بدرسه في الجامعة عندي خلفية عامة عن التخصص وليس بشكل عميق لانه الترجمة يبغاها شخص محترف في اللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية ويكون عنده خبرة قوية في اللغتين وحصيل لغوي في العربية والإنجليزية .
قمت بفتح حساب على الإنستغرام اقوم به بترجمة مقاطع قصيرة كرتونية وحصلت على مشاهدات عالية ولكن ليس هذا الهدف الذي أريده ، قدمت على دورات مترجمين واخذت شهادات لكن كيف يمكنني ان اكون شخص محترف في مجال الترجمة اريد طرق وفرص وتتطوع اقدر أشارك فيهم ممكن تحكولي تجاربكم وانا اقدر استفيد من خبرتكم بهذا المجال او اي نصيحة بكون جدا شاكرة وسعيدة لأي تعليق ممكن استفيد منه
شكراً** ل***ك*م

Hey folks!

Interpretation is a skill that takes a lot of practice. And it’s not just about interpreting.

It’s equally important to take the time to listen back to your recordings, go through your notes, learn from your mistakes.

If you would like to build a sustainable habit and learn to set time aside to consciously improve your Intepretation, you’re not alone.

I run a WhatsApp community called the 30/30 challenge, where the idea is to spend 30 minutes a day improving your Intepretation.

It’s fun and supportive. You get regular updates and Intepretation tips and tricks. It’s free, of course.

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Hi friends

I want to offer Arabic Translation Services. (I.e subtitle translation, dubbing Arabic to English and vice versa, etc.)

I am wondering how strong the AI competition has become? Has subtitle translation become obsolete?

When I did some internet research, I see there are subscription services out there, although without buying them, I can not know how good they are.

Anyway, I’d like to explore this venture and want your feedback on feasibility in this day and age.

Thanks 🙏🏽

Hi everyone,

I recently received a request from a client for two related academic review services, and since this is my first time offering this kind of work, I’m unsure how to price them fairly.

The client asked for the following:

Request 1: Review her Translation Studies research paper (8,442 words) and suggest improvements or modifications.

Request 2: Review her PhD thesis (91,401 words), especially the discussion section, and suggest how to develop it further.

Request 3: Compare both works and assess whether the paper is derived from the thesis or different enough to be considered an independent study extending it.

I have a PhD in Translation Studies and regularly do this type of work at university as part of my job as a lecturer, but this is my first time offering it as a freelance service.

Would you charge per hour, per word, or a fixed fee?

Should I price each task separately?

I’d really appreciate suggestions for reasonable rates in USD/Euro.

Hello. I'm not a professional translator, just asking for advice. I'm searching for a good either french-japanese or english-japanese dictionary. The more complete, the better. Any recommendations?

Hi everyone!

I would like to ask how to translate the games like not only on pc, but also for ps3, ps4, ps vita etc and what should u know before doing that?

I played some ps3 games which are not available on steam such as The Last Guy, Bleach Soul Ressurecion, Gran Turismo 5 and so on. I wanna try to translate from English to Ukrainian

One of my clients is now programming a proprietary AI for reviewing translations. Recently I got one of their reviews with a flag on my translation of "join a group" as "in eine Gruppe eintreten"; the AI's opinion was that "einer Gruppe beitreten" was more idiomatic. I remarked to the client that I found that a strange response, for I had made up this expression myself six years ago to observe a too constraining character limit in a popular UI I had translated for them, with even a random German magazine nitpicking on this non-standard choice of mine later, and by now it was accepted standard?

My contact audibly chuckled when she replied that their AI must have concluded that because it had been fed with my old projects.

I recently got a translation project from this company. But I am not sure if it is real or a scam?

Hola:

¿Alguien sabe de alguna escuela, curso o publicación que pueda seguir para aprender a crear gráficos semánticos de conocimiento multilingües?

He estado viendo muchos vídeos de localización e IA porque no puedo seguir negando lo que está pasando en las empresas con la implantación de la IA.

Leí en un comentario de LinkedIn (no recuerdo el perfil) que una skill que se va a demandar mucho en los lingüistas era la creación y validación de knowledge graphs.

Me metí en una herramienta que se llama Black Ice AI y que sirve precisamente para eso: crear la arquitectura del gráfico y conectarla a agentes de IA.

Me gustaría aprender más sobre cómo gestionarlos, crearlos, añadir metadata y todas esas cosas. Gracias.

Hey everyone,

After 8 years in translation and then a detour through PR (which I did not love), I finally took the leap and left my job to run my own English-Arabic translation and localization agency, based in Dubai.

It's equal parts exciting and terrifying, as I'm sure a lot of you know.

Would love to hear from anyone who's been through this:

1-What do you wish you'd known before starting your own agency?

2-Any mistakes early on that cost you time or money?

3-How did you land your first real clients (cold outreach, referrals, platforms, something else)?

Genuinely just trying to learn from people who've done this before. Thanks in advance 🙏

I've stumbled upon a translator who is absolutely fantastic! Their skills, technique, and overall experience are truly impressive. They have a really keen eye for detail and consistently deliver high-quality work. I'm particularly excited about their current focus on relationship building. It's great to see someone so dedicated to honing their craft

AI companies and their managers are aware that what they are doing is not at all ethical and that wrong translations can lead to many problems, on the other hand, various associations of translators are passive and do almost nothing to oppose it. Using AI for medical or legal translation purposes must be declared a criminal offense, otherwise laymen will continue to think that everything is OK since they are being fed AI propaganda on a day-to-day basis.

Is Propio paying for mute time on calls? Coz they got this mute time meter.

Am I just screwed?
I'm a student from Argentina, I recently turned 24 years old and with any luck, I'll soon be graduating from my Translation Studies course after starting all the way back in 2022.
It's been rough-- I got into it because I've always had a knack for English since I was young, and when I was at my lowest due to health concerns, everybody I knew told me to try and become a translator since that'd be the "easiest" career for me.
Of course, the rapid growth of AI was pretty tough on morale, and my own situation IRL significantly stretched how long this course took-- from 3 years (would have finished in 2024 otherwise) to 5 years, and I'm a bare-minimum grade student at best, nothing exceptional.

I was stubborn and refused to "give up" as most of these people who recommended I become a translator turned around to tell me I should just quit. I don't know why, but I'm finally about to be done and I could not feel any worse. Things are looking really, really grim as I think about what the hell I'll be doing next year-- I'm 24, I have zero job experience (basically 'working' as a free nanny for my younger siblings) and zero skills for anything else that isn't translation. Have I just screwed myself into a corner here? What can I do?

Has anybody dealt with this? I'm feeling very frustrated, honestly. It's a huge project, their AI tool has found "issues" with almost every segment I've confirmed so far, and the vast majority of them are nonsense. The project manager even mentions up front that a lot of the comments are likely to be irrelevant. I'm obviously more than happy to address actual concerns held by clients, but that's not what this is. Do they seriously expect me to spend an hour, obviously unpaid, sifting through this document that it took them 30 seconds to generate and which seems to have had very little, if any, human revision?

Hello everyone ! I'm kinda new here and I would like to know if anyone on this subreddit could give me the name or url of a website to improve my reading, writing (and overall translation) skills in the English language. Here, a website where I'm challenged with different English sentences that I must translate into French, which are then directly corrected, it would be great ^^.

I searched with Chat GPT due to the fact that I didn't have any clue or starting point for that, but again never trust those AI tools if they are free (even when paid it's still kinda crap).

Hey everyone, I'm a 2nd year MA student of English Studies at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. I need to collect data for my MA thesis about Fan Translations. The survey is completely confidential and anonymous and will only be used for the purpose of this dissertation.

Everyone can fill out the survey, it will take about 7-10 mins of your time.

I especially encourage people that participate in any fandom or consume any type of non-professional/fan translation of all kinds of text (books, comics, manga, TV shows, games, etc.), but even if this doesn't apply to you, you can still do it and help me out.

Here's the link to Google Forms survey:

https://forms.gle/VESjM589CarDhqAi9

Thank you so much for your time.

Hi everyone,

I’m at a crossroads and could really use some honest advice from working professionals.

I’m considering pursuing a degree in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but I keep hearing two completely opposite takes:

· Camp A: "AI (DeepL, GPT) has already killed the industry. Don't even bother."
· Camp B: "AI is just a tool. Human linguists are more in demand than ever for quality control."

My main question is: Looking 5–10 years ahead, is a traditional translation degree still a smart investment, or is it becoming obsolete?

A bit about my context:

· My native language is Russian, and I'm fluent in English.
· I'm also considering adding a third language — either Korean, Japanese, French, or Italian (haven't decided yet).
· I'm not set on a specialization (legal, medical, gaming, etc.) — open to any advice on which niche has the brightest future.

I understand that pure "word-for-word" translation is dying, but what about Translation Studies as an academic field? Does it teach skills that will stay relevant (like project management, terminology, localization strategy), or is it too theoretical?

Specifically, I'd love to know:

1. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about your own career prospects right now?
   
2. Which language pair (among mine) would give the best ROI in the current market?
   
3. If you were starting from zero today, would you go into this field, or would you pivot to something else (e.g., computational linguistics, UX writing)?

I’m not looking for sugarcoating — hit me with the hard truth. Thanks in advance!

For those of you who regularly work with international clients, coworkers, or teams who speak a different language.

I'm genuinely curious how you deal with the language barrier, especially when you're

having live conversations or meetings.

A few things I'm curious about:

1. What do you usually do when you don't

fully understand what someone is saying?

1. Do you use translation tools, captions, interpreters, or something else?

2. How well do those solutions actually work for you?

3. Is the bigger problem understanding the actual words, or things like accent, slang, technical terminology, idioms, sarcasm, or tone?

4. Have you ever had an important misunderstanding because something got lost in translation?

5. What do you find most frustrating about communicating with international clients?

6. If you're comfortable sharing, what languages do you typically work between?

I'd especially like to hear from people who have regular calls/meetings with international clients or coworkers, rather than occasional interactions.

Guys, I got an interview as an interpreter (Burmese-Eng pair) in Kalam CX. When I searched it here, I saw a lot of negative reviews and I'm a bit concerned. But this will be my first shot working with an international company so I still wanted to give it a try. Could you please tell me what they asked you in interviews? And they said this is a US timezone based fulltime work, can you tell me what you usually do throughout the day? I'm sorry if the questions sound a bit dumb, I just wanna know what I'm getting into. Thanks a lot!!

Is anyone in the industry that could share their insights on the state of the industry at the moment?

I'd like to ideally work in the justice system as a goal but that does require the level 6 course and from what I've read it's better to start with the level 3.

How long did you work with just a level 3 course and what are the conditions, pay, and frequency of work like at the moment?

For more context i speak European Portuguese and English natively, also fluent in Spanish but id mainly look to interpret in portuguese.

Thank you!