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Business of Translation Certification

by Ozichi Alimole, PhD
(New Rochelle, NY, USA)

I have a post-college degree in French Literature and have taught French Language and Literature for many years. Now in retirement, I plan to open a Translation business in New York. But after reading your submission, I feel it would be helpful to get a Translator Certification to have an edge over the competition. Besides, Translator Certification should increase professional confidence.


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Oct 11, 2010
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by: Anonymous

Hi, your views of the ATA has sent me thinking, unfortunately. Having been in the business for 30+ years, I have no reasons to doubt your assessment of the cerfification. If you find is convenient, I would be delighted to learn from your experience all these years. As the saying goes, to know the way to a mountain, ask someone who's gone up there and back! In this case, you've gone up the mountain and back.
Oct 09, 2010
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by: jmleger

I have been in this business for 30+ years. I remember only one instance of someone requesting specific ATA certification. Your prospective clients are going to be overwhelmingly concerned with one thing: price. Especially in this economy. If you take the ATA certification, it's going to cost you a mint (even if you get it on the first time and you don't take the prep test), and it is going to be a gift that keeps giving... to the ATA, because you are going to have to MAINTAIN your certification by participating in ATA sanctioned event (of dubious interest and use). If you are really into getting certified (a waste of time in my opinion), get the Proz.com certification, which won't cost you anything and you won't have to maintain.

The ATA is interested only the the ATA's interests, and does not give a hoot about translators. The ATA Chronicle is a propaganda tool published by an outside contractor under the orders of the sacrosanct Board of Directors. Try to get a letter to the editor published. Good luck, if it questions in any way any of the policies of the association. They will not even acknowledge your submission: you don't exist. You are not meant to be heard, you are only meant to pay and shut up already. If you want to be certified by those people, more power to you. Alternatively, you could send me 200 buck, and I could write you a certification letter. It would mean just as much, it would cost you less, and it would put a smile on my face. Cheers!

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