Please tell me, what do you need to know and be able to participate in the award program as an interpreter? It is understandable to know the language you will be translating into. And what else? What are the tricks of this generosity?
Since you are just starting to build your portfolio, you need to offer your services perhaps for free or for a small fee at first so that projects would be able to weigh in if you are worth it. If you have the experience then, you can offer your services to others. It would be an advantage if there are lesser number of people in your language who translates because it is less competition but if the translation job is already proliferated then you will be having a tough time. Nevertheless, just try offering your services to new projects and then work your way up.
Since others have already translators in their projects, you need to be fast in offering your translation services to the newly opened ones. Just follow this link always and see if there are projects available for translation.
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