Pricing literary translations
Thread poster: TLE2015 (X)
TLE2015 (X)
TLE2015 (X)  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:19
Jul 3, 2017

Hello - would appreciate some advice regarding pricing a literary translation, namely a children's book with rhyme translated from English to Arabic.

Many thanks,
Gamila


[Edited at 2017-07-03 14:03 GMT]


 
LilianNekipelov
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United States
Local time: 21:19
Russian to English
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Rhymed? Jul 4, 2017

Two or three times the regular, average translation rate per word.

 
Laura Kingdon
Laura Kingdon  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:19
Member (2015)
French to English
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Hourly? Jul 6, 2017

When I've done these kinds of transcreation tasks, they have typically been paid by the hour, simply because you might be able to translate one rhyme at your normal translation speed, but then need to spend half an hour thinking of an appropriate translation for the second pair, and so on... so it's very hard to guess a reasonable per-word rate with that kind of variation.

 


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