 Hello, so today's video is going to be actually It's going to be written. I guess they're going to be a lot of links So I'll put all the links in the description below because that'll be easier but I still wanted to go through all through all through the links specifically here and Because I'm going to discuss places where you can translate for free Basically where you can perform translations and not get paid for it And if this seems a big counterintuitive I've discussed this before in other videos Where in I talk about how to get started and various different methods and one of these methods is to provide translations pro bono for free and I think this is a good method sometimes when you're starting out because If you well first of all it gives you a track record it gives you a portfolio And depending on who your client is you might be able to ask them for a reference or referral or testimonial or whatever That you can use to leverage for more translations in the future where you get paid more for in fact And I've mentioned this before as well. I think translating for free is better than translating for cheap Because just because I mean various reasons basically when you translate for cheap You kind of put yourself at that price level and it's almost impossible to get out of it especially for those clients and But you know obviously if you're translating for free You're not at any price level because they understand that you're volunteering your time there You're being a volunteer, but you have your own rate which your own rate which is separate and Anyway, so if you are on websites like pros comm translators cafe everything like that and you and you get your clients from there Basically if people are offering jobs there you can even say that you'll do it for free Which in fact brings me to I'll use that as my first link and I've mentioned these places before but the main places to Do websites the main websites are sorry the main places to do translations the main websites where you can find Translation jobs are pros comm translators cafe comm and probably up work which has freelance work in general There are quite a few others. I have other videos where I go through all You know a whole lot of different Places a whole lot of different websites and they can be language specific They can be specific to your field of expertise or stuff like that But anyway any one of these you can if someone posts that they need Translations done in your language combination You can usually email them back and say I will do this for free and you can you can just explain and be honest You can say I'm just starting out I know how to translate but I'm really trying to get more ratings or referrals or something like that or you can say I have you know, I've had experience before I just don't have experience on this website like I'm pros comm or translators cafe But if you give me so, you know pros comm has What's it called the ww a willingness to work again? So if you give me a good rating on that You know, then I'll translate this for free and you can offer something like that Say, oh if you give me a good rating referral, obviously if you're happy with my job Then then I'll translate this for free. Usually no one says no to a free translation, right? Because they don't really have anything to lose So this can be a good method to try to build up your expertise or if you do a couple of these and you get Then you once again, you get a portfolio and you get I mean very often You can't use the translation the exact translation for your portfolio but at least you'll get a track record and What you'll and then what you try to do at the beginning before you get accepted You say I'm offering to do this pro bono for free, but in exchange I'd really appreciate it if you're happy with my translation, you know, to leave me a good rating and And yeah, so this so this is probably the first place where you can do pro bono translations These are once again, I'll list the websites down below the main ones at least and then I have another if you search for another video called What's it called useful links? I think under my channel and there I list a whole lot of more Websites where you can find translation jobs and you can do the same thing there usually and Just offer to do it for free in exchange for referral or rating So that's the first place. Where else sorry I need to go and check all the links because I don't know all these links by heart and And by the way, this comes up because on my course this it was something that we've been discussing one of the people asked it in the discussion board and so I Replied and so when else replied and I've been in discussion going on and so yeah, there were quite a few interesting Choices there another place obviously. Oh, yeah is a Ted Ted talks Ted talks offers a chance to volunteer to write their subtitles in different languages and So I'll give a link to that as well And that's a good place once again where you can develop a track record because then you can put it on your resume on your Work history you can say that you volunteered for Ted for Ted talks and everyone knows Ted talks So that can always be very good Let's see there are some other places. So one of the people who was participating in the discussion said she Volunteered for global voices which is an international community of writers bloggers and digital activists that aims to translate and report on What is being said in citizen media worldwide? I'll leave a link to that as well and there you can volunteer to do translation and And it can be a good place to get a track record as well Where else do we have? Oh? As a so specifically if you want to be a subtitler there are many places you can do this First of all the courses that you have online courses as you know I teach an online course is on Udemy and Udemy is one of these places. You can do it There's another one called edX another one called Coursera There's also other ones called skill share skill success Lindy I will leave a link to all of these down below and so you can check all of them out They'll all they all have different criteria and it kind of changes It seemed like it Udemy has definitely changed at least since I started teaching there So I It's best if you just check and try to see what the criteria is for translations And but I think they also accept volunteer translations if you want to do subtitles for them Another place to check is translators without borders They're always looking for volunteers. That's also a good place You know if you specify that you did work for them That can always look good on your resume as well. Then another place to check out is permondo.eu and This is another place that seems to be geared toward Volunteer translators and it seems like they kind of farmed them out to different places that are in need of Translations and so that seems to be pretty good It's almost working more on the side of the translator than not this is all my impression I have not used permondo.eu by the way I'm not affiliated with any of these websites at all These are just ones that have either come across my radar or I've used or anything like that But obviously I'm not associated with any of them in any way Except I mean I teach a course on Udemy like I said, but that's got nothing to do with new voluntary translations or not Anyway, oh, okay. So anyway, those are the main ones And what I would do if I were you is then to if you want to find other opportunities You can you look for volunteer translation But I will look into your other language like if you translate if you're Russian is one of your languages Then write volunteer translation in Russian on Google or whatever search engine and see what pops up there and so try it in your various different languages and And see what pops up and you'll probably get something more language specific more area specific You know if you translate into Chinese then write it out in Chinese write volunteer translation or any combination of those words and see What pops up and and other things should pop up and that's a good way to find things So, you know once again, this is for all of you who don't have a track record yet or want to build up more of a track record and gain more experience and maybe get more ratings and referrals and testimonials and You know, you can do volunteer translation and this is just I think the quickest and best the most efficient way to find Places to do this and by the way that you get to help places like TED Talks like translators without borders and places like this Do what they do and in fact, I know quite a few translators by the way who have a career translating are getting paid And they're still doing this pro bono because you know, it's something they want to get done I don't much I did but now I don't I probably should actually start doing some more again I would before just try to you know, keep in practice as well because I felt that was very useful and So, yeah, anyway, these are things to keep in mind all these links. I'm also gonna add another link at the bottom which is a link to a pros.com forum where it talks about finding volunteer translation work and that should have other links as well as well I have more of a discussion of people discussing it as other things come up. They'll probably get updated as well So hopefully all of that can help you out for finding places to volunteer and do translations and Not get paid which yeah once again might seem a bit counterintuitive But it really can't help building up your track record and building up your ratings and your referrals because you can leverage that for more work in the future and And to get paid more in the future as well So that's it for this video I hope you found it useful as you can tell them in my suit I just got back from a lunch. This is neither here nor there But since I have your attention once again, and I know I've mentioned this before but since you are in translation You're dealing with international matters. If you can find International events going on in your neighborhood in your area, then it's always worth it to attend them I find at least So yeah, that's pretty much it. I will catch you in the next video and I'll talk to you there. Thanks. Bye