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Translation Resources: Discussion Groups

Translation Resources: Discussion Groups
Here you will find links to information on practically every imaginable aspect of language translation. This list of translation links was originally compiled by and is used by the kind permission of Michelle de Raaij, from her invaluable website Internet Resources for Translators, with a number of new additions.

Online Forums | Usenet | General Mailing Lists

Language-Specific Mailing Lists:
Arabic | Basque | Chinese | Dutch | French | German | Hebrew | Hungarian | Indonesian | Japanese | Nordic languages | Polish | Portuguese | Spain | Swedish | Switzerland

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Online Forums

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

Usenet Newsgroups

Sci.lang.translation
Sci.lang

General Mailing Lists

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.
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 Mailing Lists

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 - op deze lijst kunnen vertalingen van en naar het Nederlands worden aangeboden..
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, see http://www.tw-h.de/mailinglisten/
U-litfor - German mailing list for literary translators. To subscribe, see http://www.tw-h.de/mailinglisten/

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 via e-mail send an empty message to bahtera-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

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.