I love reading fiction and studying languages. My undergraduate degree is in Spanish. I’ve been studying Italian the past three years (B2 level certified). I’v also studied Korean up to a B2 level (only TOPIK I certified level 2).

In undergraduate school I did a translation (Spanish to English) of a professor’s short story that was published in my University’s literature magazine.

I’m looking for any Spanish, Italian, or Korean aspiring writers who may be interested in working with me so I can gain experience translating short stories (nothing close to a novella please) or single chapters of a longer work and create a personal portfolio.

I would like to take on one short project at a time, I would do this for free obviously, in the hopes of creating a portfolio. So, I would also want permission from the author to use the translation in a portfolio. When I feel confident enough to start bidding on freelance projects, I will need portfolios and possible author recommendations.

Disclaimer: I would never upload your work to AI, however I would take advantage of AI as a ‘librarian’ assistant and translation assistant to cross reference any words or short phrases in contexts of other written works, dialects, or slang. That is of course only if I don’t understood the word (potential slang or dialect) or phrase (idiomatic expressions, etc.) from looking up the individual words in the native language’s dictionary entries. AI would be my last resort after dictionaries, basic google searches for the phrase etc. In other words, I pledge to use AI responsibly.

  • Jürgen Hubert@literature.cafeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    While that’s not exactly what you are looking for, one option is to search for old public domain works in these languages that have not yet been translated into English and translate these and publish them yourself.

    I am doing that for German folk tales, of which there are far more than I could possibly translate in a lifetime. And while I don’t know about Spanish or Korean, I do know that there are some Italian folk tale collections in the public domain (I am currently trying to learn the language, and am now taking evening classes at the A2 level).

  • ComicalMayhem@literature.cafeEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I mean if you want to build a portfolio of translated works you could always find books that are a compilation of short stories and just translate those, or help out translating works in fandoms that you’re interested in.