Volunteer Resources

Use these resources to support your personal and professional growth as a translator and to help you successfully complete MOVE translation projects.

Working with Translation: Theory and Practice

“Explore what it means to communicate in multiple languages in a variety of contexts, and discover your inner translator.” Free course by Future Learn.

TranslaStars

Various translation courses for free.

Gengo Translator Resources

Useful resources for beginning translators.

Glosbe Dictionary

Online multilingual dictionary that includes context and phrases. Available as an app.

The Free Dictionary

A dictionary, thesaurus, and more available in many languages, as well as free access to specialized dictionaries, idioms, acronyms, quotes. Available as a mobile app.

American Translators Association

Translator vs. interpreter guide, along with many other resources available for members.

Translators Cafe

A free online forum where members can ask questions, also a job site for freelancers.

Word Reference

Dictionary for words/phrases in multiple languages, access to a speech option, forum, and verb conjugation chart.

Linguee

Multilingual dictionary for phrases, expressions, as well as individual words.

Magic Search

A multilingual search engine using multiple dictionaries (including Glosbe, ProZ, TAUS, Word Reference, and many others) for different language pairs, available as a Google Chrome extension.

ProZ

A global community of translators, search terminology, find resources, ask questions, etc.

Review the guidelines for MOVE translations.