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Corinne McKay is an ATA-certified French to English translator and Colorado state-certified French court interpreter based in Boulder, Colorado; she also holds a Master of Conference Interpreting from Glendon College. A full-time freelancer since 2002, Corinne specializes in conference and legal interpreting, and translates for the international development and legal sectors. She has translated six non-fiction books, and is the author of How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator, a career guide for the language professions, with over 15,000 copies in print. Corinne served on the Board of the American Translators Association for seven years, including as ATA President from 2017-2019.

In this episode, Natalie Pavey, a certified French-to-English translator, talks about how to scale your freelance translation business. Since beginning as a freelancer in 2011, she has worked with more than 300 clients and, for the past few years, has been collaborating with other freelancers to become a one-stop shop for French>English translation services in order to better serve her clients and grow her business. Listen in for tips on subcontracting, managing translation projects and ensuring quality assurance.

Ruth Simpson has been translating professionally since 2008 in the fields of wine & spirits, beauty, and personal development and holds the MITI certification from the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. She lives on her family’s wine estate in Chablis and is a graduate of the WSET Level 4 Diploma in wines and spirits. Before moving to Chablis, Ruth was an English trainer at L’Oréal’s Luxury Division in Paris, facilitating workshops and tutoring business and marketing professionals.
She has a degree from the University of Warwick in the UK, and in addition to studying French, she spent her time there singing with the chamber choir and musical theatre society. Also a keen scuba diver and violinist, Ruth started playing the ukulele in 2019 and has begun to suffer from UAS, ukulele acquisition syndrome.

The FLD chats with its 2023 Distinguished Speaker Edward Gauvin ahead of the annual American Translators Association conference.

Transcript available at http://www.ata-divisions.org/FLD/index.php/2022/11/30/transcript-ata-ces-episode-20/, courtesy of Isabelle Berquin, PhD, CT.

Emily Moorlach of Langue Vivante LLC describes the French Language Division's certification exam study group and relates her experience studying for and taking the exam herself.

CES- Episode 18- Certification Episode August 2021 by French Language Division, American Translators Association