How To Make Money Translating
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Besides using the services listed below, you may want to consider approaching webmasters of sites and asking them if they want their website translated - maybe offer it for a set fee or ask for a percentage of the earnings from your translated page or article. If these websites don't have anything worthwhile run a specific search on the languages you are requiring - such as "Spanish translation jobs".Given that I have zero language knowledge currently I can't really vouch for any of these websites. If you have any favourites let me know. Many of these have very tough requirements for getting a gig unfortunately. I have tried to put the easier ones up towards the top.
Proz Stacks of jobs posted here every day, this is a highly active community.
Aquarius has a jobs board and a projects board where you can bid on open jobs.
Translatorsbase Online work exchange.
TradUguide You can post a profile here and hope to get hired. There's also a marketplace where you can bid on jobs.
Langlance Have an RSS feed of jobs
Job Translators List Yahoo list that you can subscribe to.
GoTranslators Post your profile up.
Trally There's a marketplace where you can bid on jobs.
TranslatorsCafe Lots of jobs posted up daily.
TradUguide You can post a profile here and hope to get hired. There's also a marketplace where you can bid on jobs.
Lingo24 have an internationally recognised translator's qualification (from a body such as the ITI or IOL in the UK, or the American Translators' Association, or their own country's equivalent)
OpenWorldTranslations Requires credentials.
SDL Minimum 2 years freelance translation experience or 1 year in-house translation experience. They also welcome applications from translators with relevant alternative experience or qualifications.
ABC translations With few exceptions, every ABC translator is language and/or subject certified.
WorldLingo 5 years continuous translation experience in a commercial environment; Membership of the professional translation association in your country of residence and A university degree from a recognized institution
Gongwell Applicants must have minimum 3 years' translation experience, good communication and organizational skills, advanced level in Office (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and have fast internet access.
Foreign Exchange Translations Minimum requirements include 3 years of experience as a professional linguist, native speaker of the language you are translating into, specialization in medical, financial, technical or web translations, and completion of test translation with above-average results. .
Melnychenko Applicants will preferably be graduates, qualified in one or more foreign language esp. native speakers of Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian