Become a Document Translator

What does a document translator do?

When businesses grow globally, they need to communicate with their customers in a language that their customer understands. Most of the businesses communicate with their customers in written form such as email, product usage guides, help tutorials, written blog content and so on.

In order to do this, they need people who are multilingual and can effectively convert a document written in one language into another. As a document translator, your task will be to convert documents written in one language into another language.

The most common example you must have seen is a phone usage guide you get when you buy a new phone. You must have observed that this guide has multiple versions written in multiple languages.

Suitable For

Suitable for people who love to write and have an eye for detail

Skills Required

Ability to read write and fluently speak at least 2 or more languages.
Ability to interpret the meaning of the context with right understanding.

Tips

Set up your home office with a computer, internet connection, a recording headset. You'll require this if you decide to participate in live conversations and convert documents online.

Most of the translation jobs are in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and French. So try to learn and be fluent in any one of them. These will fetch you more money.

How To Get Started

The best way to get started is to register on Translatorscafe.com and upload your resume and list your rates and services. It contains a free online directory of translators and translation jobs.

Another way is to register yourself with the following websites, these sites will provide you translation jobs based on your expertise and abilities.


Gengo.com
Lingosaur.com

Expected Earnings

You will earn about $12/hour for translating normal documents and up to $40/hour for translating technical or scientific content.

Sell A Video Course On Udemy

What is Udemy.com?

Udemy.com is an online learning marketplace. Udemy has a huge list of courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much more.

You can create a course in the text, audio, and video formats. Every course is available on demand and students can learn at their own pace, on their own time and on any device.

Suitable For

People who like to teach, explain and solve problems.

Skills Required

• In-depth knowledge of any domain of your choice.
• Ability to express knowledge in easily understood form.
• Ability to create and record high-quality videos.

Time Required For Creating A Video Course

Depends on the scope of the course, the number of modules included and time required for preparation.

Tips

• Pick a topic in which you are specialized in. Study the courses relevant to your topic and see how many people are interested and have actually enrolled in the courses.
• This will give you a rough understanding of the people who are interested in your topic and willing to invest in your course.
• Study the other available courses and find out the things which you can offer that will make your course much better, different than other available courses.
• Identify your audience level and then create the course content. For example, you need to first decide whether your course is for beginner level or expert level audience. Then accordingly you need to create your course content which appeals to the right audience.
• Make sure your course title and description are optimized for appealing your target audience. Try to answer the frequent questions that your audience asks in your course description.
• Deliver at least 80% of your course in video format as it is the most engaging way of interaction. Also, keep the length of each video lesson between 2-10 minutes.
• Build a rapport with the audience, and engage. You can always do quiz ups between lectures to make it engrossing and interactive. 

How To Monetize

• Udemy gets a lot of daily visitors so there is a good chance that your course will get noticed and people will enroll in and you will start earning money.
• You can even start a small blog on your course-related topics and promote your course.
• More people sign up for your course more money you make.