Translator Resources

Please use this section to find out more about our affiliate partners, social networks and industry sites. You will also find useful links to online dictionaries and glossaries.

• Social Networks
• Community Partners
• Reference Sites
• Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Industry Blogs

Social Networks

Twitter
Follow our latest tweets for up-to-date news and happenings at SDL.

Translationzone Facebook
Join Translationzone Facebook group and discuss translation issues with other freelance translators worldwide!

SDL Trados Facebook
Follow the SDL Trados Facebook group for our latest news and product information.

Translationzone LinkedIn
Connect with us on LinkedIn to read and participate in translation industry discussions, follow breaking news and search for freelance translator jobs.

Community Partners

ProZ.com
The world's leading enabling and sourcing platform for language professionals. ProZ.com's unique online workplace provides tools and opportunities for its members to network, collaborate on projects and terms, expand their businesses, do better work and have more fun.

Translationdirectory
Portal for language professionals and their clients. Buy database of 4,200+ translation agencies and database of 14,000+ freelance translators. Obtain for free: 1,500+ articles on language industry, 100+ dictionaries & glossaries, translation jobs and much more 

Traduguide
A job site for freelance translators and translation agencies with database and search function. Jobs are posted by companies, private individuals and translation agencies. Members get a comprehensive profile page to be directly contacted by potential clients.

Translators Cafe
Visitors to TranslatorsCafé.com will find a new and very convenient way to connect with others in the international linguistic community. Apply for work with registered translation agencies. Access useful linguistic news and resources. Or chat with other linguists about issues of the day.

Amelia Members Club [JP]
One of the world's largest network of translators, Amelia supports everyone who is involved in the translation industry. Please note this is a japanese website.

Spanish Translations
Spanish Translation US offers all kinds of Spanish Translation Solutions: accounting, automotive, business, e-learning, industrial, insurance, literary, legal, life science, retail, technology, tourism and telecommunications translations.

Reference sites

Chartered Institute of Linguists
The Chartered Institute of Linguists serves the interests of professional linguists throughout the world and acts as a respected language assessment and accredited awarding body. Founded in 1910, the Institute now has around 6,500 Fellows, Members and Associate Members.

World Translation Bureau (WTB) 
WTB is positioning itself to be a leading provider of translation and interpreting services to private clients and corporations that operate in a multinational, multi-cultural business environment.

The Localization Industry Standards (LISA)
LISA is the leading international forum for organizations doing business globally. It has distilled the right ways and wrong ways of supporting international customers, products and services over the last fifteen years from more than 500 corporate members, public & private institutions, government ministries and trade organizations.

Multilingual
MultiLingual Computing is the information source for the localization, internationalization, translation and language technology industry. This information takes several forms: MultiLingual, MultiLingual News, multilingual.com, Blogos, e-Books and Localization World.

American Translators Association
ATA is a professional association founded to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters. Its 10,000 members in more than 90 countries include translators, interpreters, teachers, project managers, web and software developers, language company owners, hospitals, universities, and government agencies.

Global Watch Tower
This a website dedicated to press releases and articles relating to industry news including: Business Globalization, Culture & Globalism, International Marketing, International Policy Matters, Language Industry, Multicultural Marketing, Translation & Localization and Translation Technologies.

European Language Industry Association (ELIA) ELIA is committed to providing a forum for exchange, fostering the development of business relationships with fellow members and other related international organizations, and promoting the concept of ethics and quality standards through the industry.

Dictionaries and Glossaries

Lexicool
This is primarily a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. It is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.

Wordbank
A leading localization specialist company who advises and helps global companies deliver international communication. On there website you will find a useful glossary on localization terms.

Yourdictionary
YourDictionary is a free online English dictionary and much more. The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results for your word.

Language Automation
Offers a selection of glossaries in multiple languages and topics for translators.

Frank Dietz
A free website consisting of over 2,500 glossary links categorized by topics and languages which have been accumalated by an ATA accredited translator.

Acronym Attic 
Searching over 3 million abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms.

Acronym Finder
Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations.

Acronym Search
Acronym Search have over 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations in many categories. Including chat, computer, military, finance, accounting, airports, sports, classified, and more.

All-Acronyms
Contains Acronyms, Initialisms, Alphabetisms and other Abbreviations.

Eureka
Eureka Language Search Engine is a multi-lingual directory of language and translation related links.

EU Guidelines and aids for freelance translators
Guidelines and aids for freelance translators working for the DG for Translation of the European Commission.

EU Main acronyms and abbreviations
EU definitions of abbreviations and acronyms as well as their usage appear in Section 10.7.

Terminology Collection
Links to general language dictionaries and glossaries from different fields.

Latin character picker
Brings together the Latin characters in the Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, and Latin Extended Additional blocks. Also included are the characters in the Combining Diacritical Marks block.

Arabic character picker
Includes all characters in the Unicode Arabic and Arabic Supplement blocks, plus a small handful from outside the block, such as quote marks and control characters.

Industry Blogs

SDL Blog
Keep up to date and post comments on the latest developments in translation, localization and Global Information Management via the SDL blog.

Hispanic Languages Translations
A blog for Hispanic Languages Translations, by Claudia Alvis: English to Spanish freelance translator and localization specialist.

FreelanceFolder
FreelanceFolder is a community for freelancers, entrepreneurs, work-at-home business owners, and web-workers.

Translation around the World
Translation around the World produces practical tutorials and production boosting tips for translators worldwide.