I want to find people in north-west London who can translate material
from German into English for me, for a nominal fee, in connection with
some academic research. Can you help?

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Request for Question Clarification by jackburton-ga on 15 Jan 2003 12:45 PST

as i live in north london myself, i have found a few people who
advertise in the yellow pages. Would you like me to list those who
offer a German to English translation service?

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Clarification of Question by gamestheory-ga on 16 Jan 2003 02:27 PST

I'm probably not looking for professional translators because they'd
be too expensive for me, but graduate language students or Germans
living in London needing some extra income.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 16 Jan 2003 08:07 PST

Are you looking for advices on how to locate such people?

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Clarification of Question by gamestheory-ga on 16 Jan 2003 10:11 PST

Yes, I want to be able to tell someone: I'm in Wembley, here's a batch
of German texts - go away and translate them for me. And I'll pay a
nominal fee. I can't pay a fully professional fee, however, because
there's too much of the stuff.

Dear Games Theory, 

There are several ways to find people willing to translate a work from
or into German. If you need translatros from German, you need
native-English speakers, who have command on the German language.
German speakers who have fluent English would also do, but the it is
preferred that the translation would be done by someone fluent in the
language, to which the text is translated.

Finding these people might not be such a demanding task. You could
find them in academic institutions (German departments, etc.), or in
newsgroups. If you don't mind sending the material (or scans of it)
through email and getting results from people outside London, you
might even get more answers.

Goethe Institut, which is the German equivalence to the "British
Council", is located in
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road  
London SW7 2PH  
Tel: 020-7596 4000  
Fax: 020-7594 02 
You could place an ad there, and may find plenty of Brits who could
translate from German.

DAAD London, is the German Academic exchange programme. You could find
there German students studying in London as well as Britons who would
like to study in Germany:
34 Belgrave Square,
GB - London SW1X 8QB 
Telephone (0044/20) 7235 1736 


The German Historical Institute also hosts people who are insterested
in the German culture:
17 Bloomsbury Square 
London WC1A 2NJ 
Tel.  +44-(0)20-7404 5486 
FAX  +44-(0)20-7404 5573 
eMail: ghil@ghil.co.uk 

Several colleges have also a German department, with students who
might be eager to demonstrate a knowledge in German:
Department of German, King's College London, 
Strand, London WC2R 2LS 
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2124; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7848 2089 
Email: rachel.homer@kcl.ac.uk 

Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Tel/Fax : +44 (0)1784 434455/437520 

University College London - 
Sue Jones/Heidi Berry
Department of German
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
World-Wide Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/german
Email: german@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone +44 020 7679 7120
Fax +44 020 7813 0168

Queen Mary and Westfield College,
London E1 4NS
tel:+44 20 7882 3335
fax:+44 20 8980 5400
e-mail: german@qmul.ac.uk

Translators online: 
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J12124123

Newsgroups on which you could offer a job for a translator: 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=uk.jobs.offered
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=soc.culture.german

German Newspapers to advertise in: 
www.zitty.de - for students and young people in Berlin
www.tip-berlin.de - same 
German newsgroups - http://home.snafu.de/hweede/english/dma.htm 

I hope that answered your question. Finding someone who'd work for a
low fee is not easy, especially in London, but I hope you would find
someone with the addresses given to you. If you need any clarification
on this answer, please let me know. I'd be pleased to clarify the
answer before you rate it.

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Request for Answer Clarification by gamestheory-ga on 17 Jan 2003 08:57 PST

That's a very full answer. I have already tried the Goethe Institut,
but only been led to professional translators, which i can't afford.
I'd give your anwer a top rating if you could tell me of a website or
bulletin board where I could post a notice and where the sort of
people I may be looking for might look. ("Loot" is hopeless; wrong
market.) Thanks.

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Clarification of Answer by politicalguru-ga on 17 Jan 2003 09:34 PST

Regarding the Goethe Institut and other places, you could also place
an ad at the place, and not depend on the secrateriat to get you a
translator.

A German Bulletin Board at the university of Essex: 
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/german/disc1_toc.htm


Translators Bulletin Board: 
http://www.translatortips.net/translator-bb/msg.html