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D. Bannon, my associate and a leading Korean translator, has released a new article in Translation Journal about subtitling. It’s a scholarly treatment of the subject and one that any translator of movie subtitles should read: “Subtitling: The Role of Trans-modal Translation in Global Cinema,” Translation Journal, Vol. 14 No....
Some files are just like that; they come with a disproportionate number of confusing phrasings that are easy to misunderstand. We had a job like this last week and when I went back to check my team’s work, I came across error after error and ended up re-proofing the entire...
This is an actual email I received this week. It was broadcast out to me and 30-40 other translators at the same time: Hi. We urgently need help. Have any of you ever done translations that are billed in gigabytes? If so, how is this done? How much does it cost...
I was just asked this week when the ATA is going to offer a certification exam in Korean. While it's been discussed in the ATA's Korean Language Division, I don't think much has been done to move the process forward and my guess is that it won't happen soon. Apparently...
As previously introduced here on Korean Translation Perspective, D. Bannon is probably the best Korean translator of literary works today. His latest project was to translate the subtitles for The Great Queen Seondeok, the blockbuster drama by Korean broadcaster MBC. To purchase the DVD set on Amazon: The Great Queen...
I generally go to Yahoo! Korea’s Korean<>English dictionary [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://kr.dic.yahoo.com/]for definitions when translating. It’s pretty good and has several subject-matter specialties. Korean portal sites Naver.com and Daum.net also have about the same offering but I’ve stuck with Yahoo! simply because the interface is more familiar to me. It probably doesn’t...
OPENING NOTE: The following post is a little long-winded. To get the key warning, simply scroll down to the red text below. Several years ago, I signed a premium software maintenance agreement (PSMA) with SDL so that I would always have the latest version of Trados for the licenses I...
I use AnyCount 7.0 for running word counts on batches of files. This week, an associate sent me a couple links to FineCount [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED:https://www.techfuels.com/everything-else/17295-word-count-multiple-files], a shareware program that he finds useful and which is free for personal use. It can be downloaded from this [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.sharewareplaza.com/finecount-downloads_37248] Whichever...
Here are the three steps for setting things up in Word 2007 to proofread a translated file. 1. In the Review tab, be sure Track Changes is turned on. 2. Then, in the drop-down menu, select Final (rather than Final Showing Markup). The reason for this is that Final Showing...
My colleague, D. Bannon, recently published a book on translation subtitling. He’s probably the best Korean translator today for Korean > English literary works. These are links to purchase from various publishers: Amazon Amazon Canada Amazon UK Barnes and Noble [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Elements-Of-Subtitles/D-Bannon/e/9780557130726/] Books-A-Million [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.booksamillion.com/product/9780557130726] Joseph-Beth...
