I'm thinking about possibility of internship for medical interpreter (i have bachelor in biological science but not enough grade to be a doctor, beside, i love translating)

but....i know i've been translating Korean to English for years as a hobby, but it's all illegal. pretty sure that doesn't pass well for people that are actually in the translating profession. but i've gained valuable experience.

What do you think? should i list this as a "hobby" in my resume?

ps. i know that this is recruitment section, but this is also the place where highest traffic of translators gather, so...I'm sorry, forum master.

You don't necessarily have to write down 'scanlation' as a hobby, just writing 'translate books in spare time as hobby' would suffice imo.

There's nothing illegal with saying you translated things freely on your free time.

The illegal part would be mentioning that those translations were used for the distribution of copyrighted material in foreign languages.

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sounds like it's a gray area, but I would list something more neutral

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Got some life facts for you, they should be quite handy.
1) Someone invented L I E S, they come pretty handy in some situations, the one you are in for example.
2) You would like to put the hobbies that certainly work for you right? so seems you read manga/etc, according to my experience, it's a weird hobby, so you wouldn't want to mention it since it might hinder the views of others on yourself. Something more extreme would be: "My hobby is, being a boy, dress like a girl" CERTAINLY DO NOT mention this in your job application...
3) You know several languages if you know how to translate accurately and from my reading experience Asian languages are hard to interpret since they sometimes have one word for several meanings. That's highly useful.
4) "I like translating things for others who do not understand" should be enough reason for them to hire you, since employers value employees that like their job.

Didn't want to seem harsh but dude, you have a bachelor in bio-science, so you gotta be in the 20s-30s, you should know this already..........

GL

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Simply stating you translate books would be fine.

I would leave the translating scanlations out. Be as generic as possible like I translate stuff as a hobby or something like I translate stuff for my grandparents to gain more sympathy. More than likely weather your have the foreign language degree or not they will still test you because when it comes to language there is a high probability you might of just got by in the classes for that language and your translation skills are not as good as they are suppose to be.

@Chayto: For someone who encourages dishonesty, you shouldn't really be questioning someone else's common sense.

Anyway, knowing another language alone is already seen as something very advantageous. If you put it down as "hobby", they might ask you about that in more detail and ask for other experiences you've had in translating, since medical interpreters is about translating. You could say that you translate books and such into English for friends who are interested in it.

That's all I can think of, good luck~

If you are in Australia (which I doubt you are)
http://www.naati.com.au/home_page.html <--- taking this test and passing it will make you a qualified translator in whatever language you know.


http://www.atanet.org/ <--- America
http://www.iti.org.uk/ <--- uk

etc



I agree with this.
If I was an employer I wouldn't hire someone to translate solely because they say they they've done it before. (hobby wise)
Being a specialize interpreter is harder than an average interpreter. Even if you know medical terms in English you may not know it in Korean and it's not like you can google it on the spot. I would just stick to what you know before you rush into it.

Last edited by lambchopsil at 10:38 am, Nov 28 2013

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