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Financing for Freelance Translators
Financing for freelance translators can be a bit of a headache, but it really helps to keep track of the numbers.
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Dazzling Dialogue for Translators — Book Review
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Writing Tools contains 55 tools for writers to improve their craft, which translators can also utilize. We are are, after all, writers too.
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The Common Career Path of Media Translators
I was talking to an aspiring translators when I noticed a pattern in the career path of media translators which mirrored my own experience.
Freelance Samurai (桃太郎侍, Kenji Misumi, 1957)
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How to Establish Work Life Balance as a Freelance Translator
It's tough establishing work life balance as a freelance translator. You feel the need to say yes to everything to avoid periods of famine.
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It's tough establishing work life balance as a freelance translator. You feel the need to say yes to everything to avoid periods of famine.
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the translators”
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Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 July 2020: Underpaid Translators, Anime Himbos, and Queer Doujinshi
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Puzzle for Pilgrims
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Requiem for Reviews
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Room for Precedent
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Winners for 801BLRec!
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Let me know what anime you’d like to see reviewed this year.
Halloween for Anime!
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Deadline for Murder
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Ancient Appreciation for Objects: A Lesson for Modern Life
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2007, Part 2: Seven for Seven: Two for Love
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Reduced Activity for Magic Planet Anime for The Foreseeable Future
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