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It is often difficult for me to handle client feedback on my translation deliveries in a way that keeps everyone happy. I'm certainly willing to review a client's or proofreader's work on something I delivered. However, as I see it, reviewing these changes is a third step in the project...
I've got to admit, it's pretty irritating that they put "Semi-professional Level" in English on the certificate. It doesn't say anything like this on the Korean side and it has no correspondence with anything mentioned on the Society website. It was merely the second of three levels offered for the...
When I’m sent an NDA/vendor/project/work or other type of agreement by a client requesting my signature, I always take my responsibilities seriously and read through the text. Bless those clients who manage to keep their agreements to 1-2 pages; I’ve been known to lose patience with the 7-8 pagers and...
The following is my email discussion with Duncan Shaw of DTS Language Services, Inc. [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://dtstrans.com/] regarding his agency’s transition to memoQ. Duncan kindly gave me permission to share these emails. It’s a little (well, a lot!) long, but if you use Trados or are considering using it...
I Ruffled Some Feathers Back in June, I posted an article here about learning Korean and asserted that I’ve only mastered about 15% of the language even after spending over 15 years as a Korean language learner. I even went so far as to use this number as a key theme...
Business cards often list the company name twice; once in the logo and once in the address. On an English card, the second time above the address generally shows the way it should appear on the outside of an envelope for mailing. But Korean business cards don’t show an exact...
What Doesn’t Help as Much As I Wish It Would Having a Korean Wife Many Koreans who have been impressed with my Korean ability thought it only natural that I’d be improving my Korean thanks to Myunghee’s help. But frankly, I feel that the language learning benefits have been relatively...
I Force Myself Into Korean-Language Situations One of my primary goals in studying for a masters degree at Hanyang University in Ansan (see photo below of me in front of the Business Administration Building) is to improve my Korean. This purpose almost comes in at a higher priority than the...
The following is an extreme example; I don’t usually get corralled into conversations like this in Korea anymore, though, for obvious reasons, it used to happen a lot more often when I taught English. Fortunately for me now, my ace-in-the-hole is that I can converse in Korean. Without that, this...
I Got a Tutor I think one of the cardinal rules of studying Korean has to be this: “Reject all invitations to trade English study for Korean study.” The first reason is that if you trade one hour of English for one hour of Korean, you’ll spend one hour talking...
