M. Cristina Caimotto
[email protected]
Subject: seminario traduzione
10 lessons:
25/2; 3/3; 17/3; 31/3; 7/4
14/4; 21/4; 28/4; 5/5; 12/5
Online Resources for
professional translators
Translation Seminar 2007-08
What is the goal of this
presentation?
 Provide links to useful online
information
 Provide guidelines to exploit that
information
 Explain the Kudoz system
(30 kudoz points = 1 extra mark for
your final exam!)
 A few tips to become a professional
translator
Various kinds of resources
 Online dictionaries
 Search engines
 Mailing lists
 Websites providing information
 Online communities (Kudoz)
 Official associations
PLEASE NOTICE THAT…
AUTOMATIC
TRANSLATORS
ARE NOT
INCLUDED!
Online dictionaries
 Use reliable dictionaries, not the first
result you get on google
 www.garzantilinguistica.it
(free subscription)
 www.demauroparavia.it
 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
 http://ec.europa.eu/eurodicautom/
Search engines
 www.google.com
 You can use the Internet as a corpus
to verify your lexical choices
 Quick way to check spelling
 “unknown English term” + glossario
should provide an Italian glossary
including the term you’re looking for
Mailing lists
 www.vernondata.it/langit/index.html
(Read the “Guida della Felicità” before
you write anything)
 www.yahoogroups.com
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Biblit (www.biblit.it)
Intramel
Lantra
The checklist
Websites providing information
 Company glossaries
 http://www.iltessile.it/dizionario.asp
 http://www.geatech.it/index.php?page=cat
alogo&mcat=1&cat=18&scat=30&art=304
 www.iti.org.uk (Getting into translation)
 http://www.swan.ac.uk/sel/tranlink.htm
Online communities
 http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/
Default.asp
 www.proz.com
 Create your own profile
 Kudoz answers
Professional translators
 Simon Turner
http://www.turner.it/tariffometro.htm
(“Come diventare traduttore”)
 www.aiti.org www.aitipvda.org
 http://www.aniti.it
 http://www.assointerpreti.it
Don’t forget to send me an email
[email protected]
Subject: seminario traduzione