International Translation Day 2021

Hello everyone!

Tomorrow is the International Translation Day! So, today’s post is about what this past year has been for me as a freelance translator. I did the same last year, and you can check out that post here International Translation Day 2020

I am happy to tell you that my work with #FluentU continues, and now as a Content Editor of their Spanish service. After almost two years of working with them as their English to Spanish Content Localizer, they gave me the chance of becoming an Editor. I will write more about that in a future post.

Also, I am working with a new client, a translation agency that has a presence in the US and Spain. Currently, we are working on a medical forms project. Before that, I worked on a COVID-19 short project. They pay by the hour instead of by word, which I find very interesting. I recently wrote about that; you can read it here Rate Per Word

I worked on an audio-recording project. It was for a client working on a similar AI service for smart devices, like Siri and Alexa. I had to record several sentences at different speeds while making sure that each recording was detected by their software, and it was clear. This was something different but quite fun to do!

As far as social media, last year around this same time I had 1,300+ followers on Instagram. A year later, I have a little over 2,200 followers… almost a thousand more followers in one year! I am so grateful to everyone who has decided to follow me and likes my posts, and my page in general. This goes beyond any expectations I had.

In this past year, I also had the opportunity to get in touch with a wonderful local group of translators and interpreters. They hold monthly Zoom meetings, and although I haven’t been able to attend all of them, the ones that I have attended were so amazing! It is great to be able to talk about different topics from our field. Great collaborations have resulted from this!

I know this past year wasn’t easy, I feel that! Still, I am happy about my accomplishments so far. I love being a translator! And being able to do what I love as my job… that’s just the best feeling in the world! I am very lucky to be able to do this.

Happy International Translation Day!! I hope you get to celebrate it in the best way possible! And also, tomorrow is International Podcast Day! Congratulations to all those amazing translators and interpreters who have a podcast! If you’d like to know which are my favorite translation/language podcast, check it out here My Favorite Podcasts

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Until the next time, take care and stay safe!

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