Translator community

Discussions between professional translators about rates, clients, tools and the business side of the job, plus help with tricky terms.

• Rates & business — Rates per word and per hour, pricing and running a translation business.
• Clients — Finding clients, working with agencies and direct clients, and handling difficult ones.
• CAT tools — Trados, memoQ, Phrase and other tools: workflows, problems and tips.
• Taxes & invoicing — Invoices, payments from abroad, fees and taxes for freelance translators.
• Getting started — Questions from new translators about training, first clients and building a career.
• Term help — Ask how to translate a term in context and get suggestions from other translators.
• Lounge — Everything else about life as a translator.