Internet Resources for Translators

Last updated: 2006
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Discussion: Online Forums, Mailing Lists and Usenet Newsgroups

Online Forums

ProZ.com Forums - Many interesting forums for translators
Translatortips Forums

Mailing Lists

General

LANTRA-L - Interpreting and translation. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@SEGATE.SUNET.SE: subscribe LANTRA-L.
Littrans - A mailing list dedicated to literary translation, from and toward any language.
I_miss_lantra - when LANTRA is down, and you suffer from withdrawal, you can subscribe to this list by sending a message to i_miss_lantra-subscribe@egroups.com or go to this e-group's home page
TRANSLAT - Discussion of theory and practice of translation. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message to listproc@mail.wustl.edu: subscribe TRANSLAT
techtranslation - Technical Translators' Forum
Interlang - A mailing list for the discussion of anything related to translation and Interpreting. To subscribe, send the command subscribe interlang as the body of an e-mail message to majordomo@netacc.net
GlossPost - Mailing list for the exchange of the URLs of any interesting glossaries or dictionaries found on the Internet, whether monolingual, bilingual or multilingual
GPsearch- Discussion of Web searching strategies for translators
Gpaper- Discussion of non-Internet dictionaries and glossaries
COURTINTERP-L - a mailing list for the discussion of court interpreting and legal translation. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message to majordomo@colossus.net: SUBSCRIBE COURTINTERP-L
The LINGUIST List - Subscription page
The Linguist Web Discussion Forum
TermXchange - Terminology exchange list
CAT_convert - Discussion of converting files of any type for use with any translation memory system
Business Practices Discussion - Specialized newsgroup for the discussion of business practices in the translation / interpreting industry
Payment Practices - Mailing lists for information on slow/non-paying customers
TCR - Free e-mail list for translators to exchange payment information regarding clients
Transcoop - Discussion list of the new International Translators' Cooperative. To subscribe, send an empty message to transcoop-subscribe@egroups.com or go to the list's home page

Language-specific

Arabic

Tarjama - Tarjama is a mailing list for all translators working with Arabic

Basque

ItzuL - List for basque translators

Chinese

chinesetranslation - Chinese Translation, Interpretation, Validation, and Localization

Dutch

Vertalers
Vertaal
Nedvert
iNDENT - Internet list for Dutch-English Translators
SPITS - Dutch mailing list for writers, editors, translators, etc. Subscription form on web page.
ICT-vertalers - forum waar ICT-vertalers van en naar het Nederlands elkaar helpen bij terminologievragen
Juridisch - mailinglist voor vertalers van en naar het Nederlands voor vertaalvragen op het gebied van juridische vertalingen
Medivert - mailinglist voor medisch vertalers van en naar het Nederlands, voor medische vertaalvragen en verwante onderwerpen
Techvert - mailinglist voor technische vertaalvragen.
espaned - lijst voor vertalers ESPAñol <> NEDerlands
netwerk - nieuwsgroep voor de leden van het Netwerk vertalers Italiaans - Nederlands
VertalingenNL
betaalmoraal - Nederlandstalige mailinglist voor informatie over het (betaal)gedrag van opdrachtgevers op het gebied van vertalingen.

French

Traducteurs - List concerning French translation issues. To subscribe, send a message to traducteurs-subscribe@egroups.com
french-translation - French Translation /Traduction française

German

U-forum - German mailing list for translators. To subscribe, send the message subscribe u-forum to listserv@twh.nbg.de.
U-litfor - German mailing list for literary translators. To subscribe, send the message subscribe u-litfor to listserv@twh.nbg.de.

Hebrew

Hebtranslators - Mailing list for Hebrew translators and interpreters. To subscribe, send an empty message to hebtranslators-subscribe@makelist.com or go to the list's home page

Hungarian

Mfefo - Magyar Fordítók Elektronikus Fóruma. List for translators translating into Hungarian. To subscribe, send a message to mfefo-subscribe@egroups.com or go the this e-group's home page

Indonesian

Bahtera - Indonesian language and translation. To subscribe, send the message subscribe bahtera to majordomo@lists.singnet.com.sg.

Japanese

Honyaku - Mailing list for Japanese - English translators. To subscribe, send a message containing the text subscribe honyaku firstname lastname to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com

Nordic Languages

Norskjal - Mailing list about translation and interpreting between Nordic languages, thus Danish, Norwegian, Swedish with pieces of Finnish, Faeroese, Greenlandic, Icelandic and English when in trouble

Polish

tlum_inf - Tlumaczenia informatyczne

Portuguese

por-trans - Mailing list for Portuguese translators
Trad-Prt - Mailing list for Brazilian Portuguese translators. Subscription form on web page

Spanish

Sptranslators - Mailing list for Spanish<>English translators
Translist - Translist is a worldwide discussion list for English/Spanish translation problems
Medical-terminology - Discussion group for medical translators and interpreters. Languages: English - Spanish
foro - Foro de traducción francés/español
atp-info - Lista de discusión de la Asociación de Traductores Profesionales

Swedish

Samspråk - Group for individual translators who translate from English to Swedish or from Swedish to English

Switzerland

SwissTranslation - Mailing list for translators and other language experts who deal with texts relating to Switzerland