Translator and Competitors

There are many different sites which connect translators with clients. Most of them offer only little texts for  translation. If you need this kind of work, register in all the possible job searches and make you send all the jobs for "translator" and "interpreter". Select specialized in translating sites, register there and send your CV to all the offers.

If you want to be paid, don't be avid. Don't try to earn all the money. There are many "employers" who earn money making work gratis those who looks for jobs. This is the case of "you will translate some texts and we will choose the best translator for a one year contract". The "employer" gives to all aspirants texts to translate, they make the work honestly. After that the "employer" disappears. He will offer other contests under other names next time.

The other problem are the competitors in different social networks. If you disturb their happy life, they will do everything possible to throw you from that professional network. Be warned that they are able to taint your reputation and good name. What they do? They ask you if you are able to do this or that work, they ask you to contact your clients etc. You hope to receive good salary with this work -but "employer" or "client" disappears without paying you a dime and with your clients that do not understand what's happening and why you are not doing what was promised.

So, when you begin to integrate in your profession, remember that it's a place where there are just other persons that do not want other competitors in their pond. Be ready to fight and to accept bitter tabs of the life. It's the way the world exist.

Can Translator be a Middleman?

«Воспоминания» на Яндекс.Фотках

Just about a month I work on a new project - a site that has to make meet sellers from Italy and buyers from Russia and other countries. It was natural to pass from the interpreter's work to middlemen tasks since the business men do not know speak fluently all the languages and ask a translator to become their "agent". From the other side, it's the same for manufacturers, too. So, both are happy to pass the negotiations to a third person.

I had to work really hard with this site. It's not my field, and I had to learn many things. Sometimes I say: I am 51 years old and I had no one day in my life when I did not learn something. The "normal" persons think about retirement and grandchildren at this age. Will it happen one day for me, too? Or have I to learn till the death?

Then, I had to take part on negotiations between some of sellers - buyers.

Internet is a great place where to find all kinds of information and persons. But there are many wags, too. I would say many bad words about them, honestly. I think, those are ill persons because it's difficult to understand the motivations of someone who likes to jeer at other persons making them work hard to say them at the end "you are a fool. I was joking".

So, one of them said he is a great buyer. Almost he would buy half Italy (I just can exaggerate today). He asked me to contact some important Italian works. And disappeared when I did so that those works accepted to partner with him.

Now, I feel bad. I worked honestly and did much. I convinced the administrators of those works that this Russian man is not an thief but a honest person. That Italians believed me. And the finish of the story is that they will think all Russians are such "jokers". And, first of all, they will think bad about me. They do not know that I am the victim of a psychopath. I was the "men in the middle"...

Moral: never accept anonimous clients. Always ask credentials before you begin to work with anybody.

It was a very hard lesson. I do not know, how have I turn my honest reputation back...

The second lesson was that we have to do what we learned doing.
Someone asks you to help because you understand languages. And, when you make natural mistakes because you can't know all the peculiarities of their profession, they do not remember THEY asked you about a favour... And you learn you are a whipping-boy for them.

Italian Wine, Coffee and Snacks' Producers Look for Partners

This period when all the manufacturers turn back to their work after a period of vacation is very busy and I had not time to write here more.

As I told before, my work connects me in the greater part with the export managers of different local manufacturers. They often ask  me if I can connect them with the buyers in Russia and other countries of ex-URSS. So, this last period I had the task to look for partners for Italian Food Producers.
I even had to create catalogs and a site where to post all those offers. Here is the work I did
http://russiaitalia.weebly.com/

If you think that both producers and buyers would like to work without middlemen, you are surely right. Yes, it's true. But Italians do not speak Russian. And Russians even if they learn every language they have to use in their business, often understand that there are peculiarities that damage all the business if they do not know the language perfectly. The same problem is with the Italians who asked the persons who don't speak Russian or Italian good enough to translate negotiations. I was really shocked when I understood what possibilities those my clients lose for this reason. Incredible, you know.

So, if you want to buy excellent Vesuvian wine, traditional neapolitan wooden blended coffee or traditional (EXCELLENT!!! with beer) neapolitan snacks for your shop, you can write me and I'll connect you with them.

Translating from Italian to Russian in a Coffee Blending Fabric

There are many coffee blending fabrics in our zone. Some of them are very popular, others are less known not only here but maybe in all the world, too. It does not mean that these fabrics are not so good as the others, more big and with more possibilities of advertising.

With the group of Belorussian entrepreneurs, we visited one of these fabrics invited by the export manager, who was in Belorussia some month ago.

You have to know that the Chamber of Commerce of Salerno organized a business tour for local entrepreneurs to advertise local products and production abroad and to promote and open Russian and other Eastern countries' market to the little businesses of the region. Now, interested persons from there come here to look at and learn about the products they want to sell in their countries.

So, we visited a coffee fabric where I had to translate all the explanations and the negotiations.

It was forbidden to make close photos in that fabric, so I have only some general shorts.

Sacks with coffee from different countries arrive in the fabric. They are full with 2 qualities of seeds: arabica and robusta. They go in separated tanks. Computer sends them in the oven and than in other tanks.

There is a lab in the fabric where they taste new mixes. Once the mix is decided, computer continue to deliver necessary quantities from the tanks.

After that, the mix is automatically packed

and send to the partner

Both sides remained very content with the results of the visit and the collaboration will continue after the period of the summer vacations.

Translator and Interpreter in Rome: In an Olive Oil Fabric

If you think that the work of Translator and Interpreter from / to Italian and Russian consists in observing sightseeings and visiting restaurants with the best clothes and jewelry on, you are wrong. Even if the wide range of vocabulary and the most incredible knowledges required by the clients during such nice walks and dinners could baffle everybody. For example, I can guide tourists in practically any place of Campania (and believe me, not every guide is able to do it since many are specialized in one or only some tourist objects), but I do not know Rome as a tourist guide has to know it. So it was hard for me to be a guide in Rome, I have to admit.

Fortunately, there are not such problems when you translate partners in a fabric. They speak and explain everything themselves. You have only the task to interpret their speeches as better as possible. In the way not to create misunderstandings. And Italian language is one of the easiest in this sense, I think. Italians like to speak with the hands. :-)))

Aeronautics can't live without Translator and Interpreter from Russian to Italian

This time I was invited to assist negotiations between a Russian airline and an Italian manifacturer of internal parts of airbusses. I was a little nervous. I feel always some worried when I prepare my work. It's always possible that something goes in a wrong way -it's the life- and it's necessary that such cases do not influence the result. In this case, I had to work with the completly unknown for me field of industry, too, and had only one day to be ready. It was the additional reason of my anxiety this time.

The most big problem in such cases is professional slang. Fortunately, both sides understood it very well. It was amusing to observe how they understand one other when I, at times, translating every word they said, did not understand what I'm telling about.

When I translate persons that talk, I try to do in the way they do not feel (too much) the presence of the translator. I like to see when they seem to forget the language barrier they have.

"Your translation was very good!" is it not a great satisfaction?

My "aeronautic first time" was a success.

Translator and Interpreter in Rome: first day

My job took me in Rome for some days this time. I had to assist Belorussian businessmen during their stay in Italy. Learned from my numerous trips this year I bought a bag with 4 wheels. It walks itself and is very comfortable.

I went into the airport to meet my clients. From the airport we went into our hotel  that was very clean and nice even if the rooms were too little. 

Then, we wanted to visit Vatican but everything was just closing when we came there.

Late in the evening, the Roman partner of my clients invited us to visit "his" Rome and we
had a nice walk till the 01 in the night.

Interesting is that the rooms with important paintings were lighted up so that tourists can admire them even in the night.