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Original Posted By Ceribe III ►
Dear All,

Ku dpt tawaran untuk translate script film bahasa inggris ke dalam bahasa indonesia.
Durasi film nya sih 60 menit.

Expectation si client sih harus jadi bahasa indonesia yg baik dan benar alias bagus. Dgn hasil translate bukan dari Google Translate.
Technically itu sih no big deal untuk ku.

Cuman krn ini pertama buat ku, kira kira kalau di bayar 150rb untuk deadline dlm waktu 1 hari dan juga translate nya itu 60 menit durasi film (Gods know how many pages it might ended up)
Apakah payment tsb itu kategory std atau under-pay or???

Please advice dunk.
Thanks

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Original Posted By Loyz.D ►
Guys, is there any free CAT tools out there?
I mean 100% free!
Yeah...I'm cheap...

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Original Posted By jchristie ►
Folks, allow me to share about what do you NEED to have VS NICE to have to become (at least) a good translator. NOTE that I'm not a FULL translator so, any addition from y'all will be highly appreciated.

NEED to have:
- Good interpersonal/ communicating skills, negotiation skills
- Good dictionary (mine is Oxford Advanced Learner's)
- 'Segmented' Dictionaries (so far I have glossary of Aviation, Mining, and Law)
- Networking (I'm still very low on this....)

NICE to have:
- electronic dictionary/ dictionary software (I have Concise Oxford 11th Ed.)

thanks...!

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Original Posted By jchristie ►
Folks, allow me to share about what do you NEED to have VS NICE to have to become (at least) a good translator. NOTE that I'm not a FULL translator so, any addition from y'all will be highly appreciated.

NEED to have:
- Good interpersonal/ communicating skills, negotiation skills
- Good dictionary (mine is Oxford Advanced Learner's)
- 'Segmented' Dictionaries (so far I have glossary of Aviation, Mining, and Law)
- Networking (I'm still very low on this....)

NICE to have:
- electronic dictionary/ dictionary software (I have Concise Oxford 11th Ed.)

thanks...!

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Original Posted By Loyz.D ►
For electronic dictionary, I usually use:
- Kamus 2.04, IndoDic >-- FREE!
- WordWeb (Monolingual dict. + thesaurus) >--- FREE & RECOMMENDED!
- Oxford Collocation Dictionary
- KBBI offline

I also use:
- Google Translate (it sucks to use this to translate a whole document, but it can be helpful in translating word or phrase with this TM)

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Original Posted By p1nk3d_books ►
Don't forget LingvoSoft

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Original Posted By p1nk3d_books ►
Don't forget LingvoSoft

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Original Posted By p1nk3d_books ►
I need dictionary which has converter :sorry
All the measurements in the novels I translate(d) need to be converted into Indonesian, like miles >-- km, feet >-- m, pound >-- kg. And it's so hard to find one

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Original Posted By p1nk3d_books ►
I need dictionary which has converter :sorry
All the measurements in the novels I translate(d) need to be converted into Indonesian, like miles >-- km, feet >-- m, pound >-- kg. And it's so hard to find one

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Original Posted By jchristie ►


I could not agree more with the above advise, if you have skill in translation - you should honor that. Getting paid (no matter how little) is one of them. Of course you can say," Ah, itung-itung bantu temen..." sometimes but when your so called friend come with 10 pages of translation material, I do hope you honor yourself by stating some fee.
Hey, if he/ she is really your friend, I bet the fee won't be a problem and in the end of day getting paid for what you did will not change the fact that you HELPED your friend anyway.

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Original Posted By PrinceLaharl ►
I thought i dropped by to give a few thoughts about this whole translator thingy..

to be a translator, first you have to ask yourself, are you qualified to be a translator? are you good enough to translate perfectly, flawless, with zero mistakes? because if you do with for money, its all about professionalism. its not the translation thread in EF when you make few mistakes others will kindly correct your translation. your clients will demand perfection in your jobs. and if translation service become more important in the future and more people become a translator, there should be a certification for translators. there should be something like a short course or a test for it, and if they pass it, not only they will be a qualified translator, but also a certified translator..

and don't forget to be a translator, you have to understand about the thing you are translating. so you must have an expert in your team. if you are translating a law document, you must have a law expert in your team. or if you are translating an engineering module, you must have an engineering expert in your team. otherwise you won't get a good result. i.e i would bet my whole live savings that no one will be able to translate Christie J Geankoplis : Transport Processes and Unit Operations if they have never studied Chemical Engineering before..

my point is, maybe its not hard to be a translator if you are used to use English, but its a lot harder to be a good translator, not to mention a professional translator..


Just my two cent..

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Original Posted By Ambrosiana ►

Reason No. 1: My wife thinks I’m a genius.

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Original Posted By chelakova ►
hi bro Ambrosiana..

very inspiring thread I got here...
It was a month ago when I was wondering to be a translator / interpreter. The story begun when my office held this international event and needed an interpreter. I thought the job is interesting as well as the fee bs

Then, I started to browse in net to find any info I need about becoming a translator / interpreter. and There it is, I found this thread. Yet, I've just started to read this thread today. I'm in page 7 now and I will continue tomorrow..

I plan to join any interpreter course like in Hapsa et Studia or in PPB UI, what do you think about that, is it a good step or not?
cause I'm a newbie in this translation world

thanks a bunch

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Original Posted By Ambrosiana ►


Hi Chelakova,
I'm so proud my thread inspired you...
I heard so many good testimonies about those two courses (Hapsa et Studia and PPB UI). So I think it's a great idea to learn there.
I think the course would be excellent experience, since nowadays, many interpreting projects need specific tools to be mastered. It would be taught on the course.

Feel free to PM me if you want to ask anything, because I'm proud if I can help you with something.
I hope you can reach your dream to be great translator / interpreter

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Original Posted By jaya28inside ►
seems everybody still "Sleep" at this moment....
is it no longer updates, guys?

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Original Posted By Ambrosiana ►

Gyahahah...
I'm sorry.
However, that's nice idea to do some update. I will find some benefit information to fill in the posts...