Thank you very much for this useful information, I had some difficulties to find voluntary translation work, but now I know where to start!

Translation is an ongoing journey. Even when you think you know it all, something comes along to prove you wrong! I wouldn’t say Chinese>English translation is any harder than French>English but the Chinese script and centuries (millennia?) of cultural history can challenge even the most prepared and learned of translators.

French is a beautiful language and has such a rich literary heritage (Victor Hugo is one of my favourite authors). I really regret not having studied French at university as French was one of my favourite subjects at school.

Do you live in France? Living in the country where your source language is spoken is by far the best way to maintain and improve your language skills. I have to say that my spoken Chinese has suffered terribly from living outside of the Sinosphere and having learn a new language (Dutch).

Thank you for the information. I have now registered with a couple of the websites.

I inadvertently deleted your e mail, so I will respond here.
Wow! Chinese. I admire you.

I work in the French/Emglish combination.
It is something I wanted to do 100 years ago, when I graduated from High School, but could not.

I decided when I retired from nursing to perfect French because I am in love with the sound. Not to be trite, but it is like music for me.

It has also opened a number of fascinating segways, as I explored this very old civilisations and its neighbors. My journey continues. As does yours.

Jessie

I’m glad my post has been quite useful. There are a lot of volunteer opportunities on those websites and not just for translation. What language pair(s) do you specialise in?

I don’t actually work with Spanish, though I do speak it and have done some Spanish>English translation work in the past. I decided to drop that language pair and focus on Chinese>English some time ago as I felt the Spanish>English market was too competitive and enjoy working with Chinese texts a lot more.

Thanks for visiting and hope to hear from you again soon!

Thanks for posting your very interesting article.
I have wanted to do some volunteer translation for a while, and I am going through the sites one at a time.

I am a Registered Nurse translator and work with all types of medical translation, as well as Public Health, educational, and World Health material.

At first I was not going to read the article, as I saw you work with Spainish, but thought the idea was appealing, and I am glad I did.

Jessie Nelson

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Si, lo capisco abbastanza bene. Posso leggere libri italiani ma non lo scrivo molto bene. Ho bisogno di molto pratica.

Mi piacerrebe praticare con lei, si avete di tempo… e pazienza.

My grammar is terrible so I apologise for any errors. It’s easy to understand Italian if you already know Spanish but remembering how to speak and write grammatically correct Italian takes a lot more effort!

Ilaria