Expert Level Translators

About this task

Expert Level Translators

Languages sought: Afrikaans (Dutch, Flemish), Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Modern Standard and all dialects), Armenian (Eastern and Western), Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian (Croatian, Serbian), Bulgarian (Macedonian), Burmese, Cambodian (Khmer), Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Fukien/Taiwanese, Chinese-Mandarin (all dialects not listed as separate languages), Chinese-Shanghai/Wu, Croatian (Bosnian, Serbian), Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch (Afrikaans, Flemish), Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, Flemish (Afrikaans, Dutch), French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo (Ibo), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Kissi, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian (Bulgarian), Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Moldovan (Romanian), Mongolian, Montenegrin (Serbian), Nepali, Norwegian, Panjabi (Punjabi), Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian (Moldovan), Russian, Serbian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin), Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili (Kiswahili), Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba, and Zulu.

Location and pay:
- Remote.
- $0.10–$0.20 per word of translation.

Responsibilities:
- Translate, transcribe, and summarize foreign-language text, audio, and video material accurately into English.
- Follow designated style and quality standards when translating complex, abstract, idiomatic, technical, or colloquial texts.
- Post-edit machine translations for accuracy and completeness; convey nuance and socio-economic context using appropriate domain-specific terminology.
- Use and develop glossaries, style guides, and translation memories.
- Review the quality of other translators’ work.

Requirements:
- Fluent spoken and written English; ILR 5 reading, listening, and comprehension capability in the source language and ability to pass an ILR 5 translation performance test.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and the internet; skills in computer-assisted translation and adaptive machine translation tools.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
- In-depth knowledge of source-language regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms, and dialects preferred.