Dus wrote:You're completely right there, but:
a) If I understand him correctly, this was more or less a one-time thing, so he wasn't really trying to get a foot in the door.
b) If you start selling yourself short, then you will have a hard time raising your rates later. You will find yourself working at terrible rates for longer than you'd like.
ALWAYS use this lines:
"This is Special price FOR YOU ONLY, because you help me / you are my friend / or any kind of nonsens like that." when giving the cheap ones!. so you have an excuse if that same person came back for a second job!.
and based on His previous post, i dont even think he is hoping Meidei to do the job.. he is just casting his fish line to get the CHEAPEST translator!
Dus wrote:No offense, but I certainly wouldn't want to hire you as a translator
well.. i am 26 years old now.
my native language is not english.
i grow in 1990-2004 and in indonesia.. that year we dont have a proper ( affordable ) english course. the teacher just teach the Basic and dont care if we do it right or not!
so i already grateful that i can understand english pretty well ( reading ) without attending course. I learn all by my self using song.
the problem is when i type.. i miss the grammar and sometimes made a deadly typo.
but .. no song teach you grammar right!.
and i learning english by listening to 1 song, and write the lyric.
so i listen, pause, rewind, and write.
ha ha ha ha
and no sane person will ask someone who dont have any educational background to translate right?
gomene!