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A Arte da Tradução (Portuguese)
Espaço dedicado a refletir e promover esta arte-ciência que nos leva a aprender com cada novo parágrafo, descobrir nuances a cada nova combinação de palavras, mergulhar nas entrelinhas e construir realidades com essa fantástica ferramenta que é a língua.

a.b. interpreting and translations (English)
The working life of a conference interpreter and translator in London

About translation (English)
Information, news and opinions about professional translation

Alessio Iacovoni’s weblog (English)
Weblog on conference interpreting and translation studies

Algo más que traducir (Spanish)
Blog sobre traducción profesional, localización de videojuegos y tecnologías de la traducción.

Another word (French)
Le métier de traducteur technique et le secteur de la traduction.

Anyword (French)
L’observatoire de la traduction

A translation handbook (English)
Tips, comments, anecdotes and other interesting information on the art of translation. An ongoing and creative guide not only for translators but also for their potential clients from a veteran of nearly 30 years in the profession.

Between lines (English)
A blog of an Indonesian translator and avid reader on language, translation and books…

Boekvertalers (Dutch)
Over het vak, de vertaler, de wereld en het boek

Bootheando (Spanish)
El blog de un intérprete de conferencias

Boston Translation (English)
An ongoing conversation of news in and about literary translation, held among the editors, contributors, and readers of Pusteblume, a journal of translation at Boston University.

Blogging translator (English)
Translation, Linguistics and Freelancing in the 21st Century

Blogos (English)
News and views on languages and technology

Brave new words (English)
A blog about translation, language, literature, and other related topics.

Bulgarian translator (English and Bulgarian)
Dedicated to the English-Bulgarian translators’ community

China on my mind (English)
Thoughts on China, Chinese culture, and Chinese>English translation…

Claudia’s translation blog (English)
A blog for Hispanic Languages Translations

Coaching de traducteurs (French)
Blog de Pascale Cotton (cabinet A + B) sur ses programmes de coaching individuel et de coaching de groupe ainsi que ses publications pour traducteurs, et sur le travail, les joies et les difficultés du traducteur indépendant – qui est souvent une traductrice! – ainsi que les méthodes de marketing classique et électronique permettant aux traducteurs de développer leurs activités.

Das Übersetzerportal (German)
Das Nachrichtenportal für Übersetzer

De traducciones y otras rarezas lingüísticas (Spanish)
Bitácora dedicada a las curiosidades de la profesión del traductor-intérprete, así como a otros recursos lingüísticos de interés para alumnos y profesionales.

Eel in the air (English)
Trying to put together translation theory and practice… and to make it a happy marriage!

El taller del traductor (Spanish)

Fidus interpres (English, Portuguese and German)
Translation blog – blog de tradução – Übersetzungsblog

Field notes (English and Portuguese)

Fucked translation (English)
What happens when Spanish institutions give translation contracts to relatives or to some guy in a bar who once went to London and only charges 0.05€/word

In-house translators – a dying breed (English)

Into Spanish translation blog (English)

Intraducible (Spanish)
Blog sobre traducción e interpretación institucional

Kate Lambert (English)
Translation, Swedish, Finnish, English, reading, writing, books…

La paradoja de Chomsky (Spanish)

La parole exportée (English)
Keeping it up in the translation/interpretation sphere

La passion traductrice (French)
La traduction, mon métier, ma passion…

Lapsus translinguae | translation/traducción (English and Spanish)
Slips of translation and/or life… Lapsus de traducción o de la vida…

La traductora traidora (Spanish)
Un blog sobre traducción, lingüística y temas ‘multiculti’

Life in translation (English)

Lost in translation (English)
A blog about a freelance translator (English, Spanish, Dutch) in Asturias in the North of Spain.

Lost in translation… (Spanish)

Mac for translators (English)
A blog for translators working on Mac OSX

Marketing translation (English)

Masked translator (English)
Masked Translator is a professional freelance translator. I am the Zorro of the translation blog world! Masked Translator is not trying to sell you anything or self-promote. Masked Translator just wants to tell it like it is about the real life of a professional translator…

Medical translation blog (English)
Medical Translation * Regulations * Technology

Mox’s blog (English)
Mox is a young but well educated translator. Two PhDs, six languages… and he hardly earns the minimum wage.

Musings from an overworked translator (English)
Featuring musings about my life and the translation industry

Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (English)

My life in translation (English)

Naked translations (English)
and (French)

Next stop: translation (English)
First steps into freelance translation

Notizen eines Übersetzers (German)

(Not just) another translation blog (French, English, Italian)

Oversetter (English)
This page is a blog by Nick Rosenthal, Managing Director of Salford Translations Ltd.

Se habla English (English)
Life of a translator

Services linguistiques Valérie Bélanger (French)

Soluciones para traductores (Spanish)
El blog para el día a día del traductor autónomo

Spanish legal translation (English)
Your source for Spanish-English translation news, articles and tips.

Switch Off and Let’s Go (Spanish)
Blog sobre traducción audiovisual para el idioma español de la Península Ibérica: dificultades, aciertos y errores que se producen al traducir los títulos o los diálogos de las películas.

Taccuino di traduzione 2.0 (Italian)

Tecnologías y traducción (Spanish)
Blog sobre Tecnologías de la Traducción y la asignatura Informática Aplicada a la Traducción

TecnoTraduBlog (Spanish)
Un traductor también puede ser geek

Textlation (German)

The court interpreter (English)
The trials and tribulations of court interpreting

The GITS blog (English)
Random scribbling about programming, translation, and Japan

The greener word (English)
Dispatches from the desk of a German-English environmental translator

The liaison interpreter (English)
A gaijin consecutive, business and technical liaison interpreter of the Japanese language in Tokyo with special focus on OPI, over the phone interpretation and strategies for advanced oral Japanese language self-training.

There’s something about translation (English)
Sarah Dillon on lessons learned at the wordface

The translation and interpretation blog (English)
This site facilitates knowledge and research in translation and interpretation studies by offering a compilation of online resources and blog entries relevant to our profession.

The translation post (English)
Ruminations on language and translation

The translator’s café (English)
Translation – Conference Interpreting – Linguistics – Languages – Bilingualism – Literature and more…

The Wor(l)d-Weary Translator (English)
Ramblings and rants on translation, language and writing

Timtranslates (English)
Musings of an English translator in Catalonia

Tradução via Val (Portuguese)

Traducción e investigación (Spanish)
Cómo empezar en el mundo académico cuando te estás doctorando en Traducción e Interpretación

Traduction technique, interprétariat et coaching en anglais (French)

Traductores de libros (Spanish)

Traductrice de grec moderne (French)

Traductriz (Spanish)

Traduzioni e altre storie (Italian)

Transblawg (English)
Margaret Marks: Weblog from Fürth on German-English legal translation

Translate this! (English)
Strategies for Lossless Langage Convrson

Translating Berlin (English)

Translating for the environment (English)

Translating is an art (English)
A weblog about translation and language

Translating patents (English)

Translation all the way down (English and Russian)
Bilingual Blog on Translation: Discussions, Tips & Tricks

Translation and ethics (English)

Translation and intercultural studies (English)

Translation Journal blog (English)
Blog of the Translation Journal, an on-line publication for translators by translators about translators and translation.

Translation – language – culture (English)
A blog about translation, language and culture

Translations into French (French)
This blog is about all aspects of English to French translation from a reviewer’s standpoint

Translation times (English)
The entrepreneurial linguists and translating twins blog about the business of translation from Las Vegas and Vienna.

Translation tribulations (English)
An exploration of translation technologies, marketing strategies, workflow optimization, resource reviews and other topics of interest to translators, language service providers and language service consumers

Translator power (English)

Translator’s shack (English)
All about TEnT, CAT tools, translation memory, translation resources etc.

Translator’s tools (English)
All about tools to facilitate translation from a professional technical translator. A collection of macros, utilities, shortcuts, and tips to share with fellow translators.

Transtextuel (French)
Babillages d’une traducteuse

Transubtantiation (English)
Ideas on translation

Übersetzen und so weiter (German)

Über-setzer-Logbuch (German)

Übersetzungsfehler (German)
Das Gruselkabinett der Übersetzung

Vertalernieuws (Dutch)
Vertalersnieuws is een blog voor vertalers, tolken, ondertitelaars en iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in nieuws voor deze beroepsgroep. Op deze blog verschijnen wetenswaardigheden, informatie over relevante wetswijzigingen, tips over interessante websites en nog veel meer.

Yndigo (English)
Translation: insights and incites

Wasaty tlumacz (Polish)
O tłumaczeniach przy fajce i kawie

Wéb-tränslatiôns (English)
Making international eBusiness easy

Working languages (English)
Language and languages in legal translation and simultaneous interpretation

Do you have a blog related to translation that is not listed here? Let me know by sending me the link to christine [at] polyglot-blog.com or by adding a comment below. A backlink is much appreciated but not required.

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8 Comments »

  • Delighted Scribbler said:

    I’m a linguist, writer, translator, and now blog addict, My translation blog is called Mark it Right.

    Mark it Right is focused on common doubts relating to style and neologisms for English and Spanish, as well as client issues commonly faced by language professionals. I hope you’ll come around and share your knowledge and war stories. :-)

  • Christine (author) said:

    Thanks a lot for adding your blog! It looks very interesting.

  • Laurent said:

    Thanks for adding me! By the way, my blog just moved to a self-hosted domain. My new address is:http://www.anothertranslator.eu/blog
    if you could update your bookmarks, that would be nice !

  • Christine (author) said:

    Hi Laurent,
    Done! Thanks for letting me know. Nice blog by the way.

  • Julie McDonough Dolmaya, PhD » Translation Blogs I said:

    [...] the blogger behind There’s Something about Translation, includes over 100 blogs, while this one from Christine at Polyglot Blog offers links to approximately 90 translation blogs in English, [...]

  • Ilaria said:

    You should update the link to my blog. It was Ilaria-Translations.com, now it’s MyLifeInTranslation.net. Thanks in advance!

  • Christine (author) said:

    Done! Thanks, Ilaria.

  • Jim said:

    Suggesting a new blog – http://blog.tomedes.com

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