Links

Payment practices of translation agencies

Paymentpractices.net (the oldest, most extensive dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies^[1])
ProZ.com Blue Board (A database of translation companies that outsource, with feedback from ProZ.com translators and interpreters.)
https://groups.io/g/WPPF (World Payment Practices Free)(‘WPPF is a payment practices list for translators to learn about agencies'/employers'/customers' payment routines’)

Fellow translators

Jack den Haan (Qualified engineer, patent translator & writer)(Dutch-English + English-Dutch)
Gert Jacobs (Patent Translator/Attorney)(English-Dutch)
Luc Ockers (Interpreter-translator-subtitler, German ⇆ Dutch)(see also: https://www.proz.com/profile/1422)
Nikki Graham’s ‘Useful Links & Resources for Translators & Interpreters’ (Spanish to English translator/editor)
Samuel Murray (English-Afrikaans, Afrikaans-English)
Thomas Hedden (French, German, Polish, Russian-English)
Luc Ockers: Interpreting and translating into Dutch and German from English, German and Dutch since 1988.

Interesting blogs on topics relating to translation and terminology

https://multifarious.filkin.com/ (Paul Filkin’s blog)
https://www.translationtribulations.com/ (Kevin Lossner’s blog)

Lists of glossaries on websites, etc.

GoldenDict Dictionaries

https://cloud.freemdict.com/index.php/s/pgKcDcbSDTCzXCs?path=%2F (‘ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES FOR GOLDENDICT’)^[2]
https://beijerterm.com/archives/goldendict/ (various resources archived in GoldenDict-compatible .dsl files)

Multilingual terminology search websites useful for translators

IATE
Interglot (translation dictionary)
Juremy (indispensable tool for EU terminology research, offering instant concordance & terminology search across all 24 official EU languages)^[3]
Linguee
Microsoft Language Portal (see also: Microsoft: Translation and UI strings glossaries)
ProZ.com term search
Reverso Context

Book scanning services & resources

digitisemybooks.co.uk
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder)^[4]
https://singlelogin.re/ (Z-Library backup system)

Book shops

Boekwinkeltjes.nl (Best place I know for hard-to-find second-hand dictionaries.)

References

↑ The Payment Practices™ online database is the successor to the original "grandfather" of all translation agency payment lists, the Payment Practices list (PP list) on Yahoo Groups. The Payment Practices list was started by Karin Adamczyk, a French-English freelance translator, on December 21, 1999. The Payment Practices list was the first service intended to provide freelance translators and interpreters with information about the payment practices of translation agencies and other clients for the growing global community of translation service providers. Payment Practices™ is the oldest, most extensive objective dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies and other consumers of translation services. A 2018 survey of freelance translators and interpreters found that Payment Practices was their primary source for vetting potential agency clients. The Payment Practices™ database contains information on 13569 translation agencies and clients worldwide, 10527 total responses and 5882 comments on those buyers. Agencies are rated by the responses of freelancer translators: the PP Reliability Score (PPR Score™) shows the translation agency's reliability in terms of on-time payments; the Translator Approval (TA Score™) is assigned to each response based on the freelance translator's willingness to work with that agency again. Used together, these two scores make it easy for freelance translators and interpreters to decide whether to work for a particular translation agency or client. (src: http://www.paymentpractices.net/)
↑ Someone has created a very useful site collecting literally hundreds of GoldenDict-ready dictionaries, as well as (hard-to-find) software for dictionary file/format processing.
↑ Juremy is a comprehensive tool for EU terminology research, offering instant concordance and terminology search across all 24 official EU languages. It provides efficient and reliable searches of the EU legal corpus, including Treaties, Legal acts, and case-law, with intelligent automatic search capabilities. Designed for translators working with EU bodies, it features sorting and filtering by document metadata and offers a bilingual result view with context
↑ As per 19-03-2023, Z-Library (and its related sites such as book4you.org, etc.) is down. The site has a banner stating that it has been seized by the FBI. However, the cat is out of the bag. If you go to singlelogin.me you can still log in using your old login details. You will then be given your own personal URL to access the site. Various mirrors have also sprouted up, such as ‘Anna’s Archive’.

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[1] The Payment Practices™ online database is the successor to the original "grandfather" of all translation agency payment lists, the Payment Practices list (PP list) on Yahoo Groups. The Payment Practices list was started by Karin Adamczyk, a French-English freelance translator, on December 21, 1999. The Payment Practices list was the first service intended to provide freelance translators and interpreters with information about the payment practices of translation agencies and other clients for the growing global community of translation service providers. Payment Practices™ is the oldest, most extensive objective dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies and other consumers of translation services. A 2018 survey of freelance translators and interpreters found that Payment Practices was their primary source for vetting potential agency clients. The Payment Practices™ database contains information on 13569 translation agencies and clients worldwide, 10527 total responses and 5882 comments on those buyers. Agencies are rated by the responses of freelancer translators: the PP Reliability Score (PPR Score™) shows the translation agency's reliability in terms of on-time payments; the Translator Approval (TA Score™) is assigned to each response based on the freelance translator's willingness to work with that agency again. Used together, these two scores make it easy for freelance translators and interpreters to decide whether to work for a particular translation agency or client. (src: http://www.paymentpractices.net/)

[2] Someone has created a very useful site collecting literally hundreds of GoldenDict-ready dictionaries, as well as (hard-to-find) software for dictionary file/format processing.

[3] Juremy is a comprehensive tool for EU terminology research, offering instant concordance and terminology search across all 24 official EU languages. It provides efficient and reliable searches of the EU legal corpus, including Treaties, Legal acts, and case-law, with intelligent automatic search capabilities. Designed for translators working with EU bodies, it features sorting and filtering by document metadata and offers a bilingual result view with context

[4] As per 19-03-2023, Z-Library (and its related sites such as book4you.org, etc.) is down. The site has a banner stating that it has been seized by the FBI. However, the cat is out of the bag. If you go to singlelogin.me you can still log in using your old login details. You will then be given your own personal URL to access the site. Various mirrors have also sprouted up, such as ‘Anna’s Archive’.

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