How does it work? The jobs are posted on Babelbee as regaular translation requests for bidding by translators. After a the job has been assigned, Babelbee provides the non-profit client with funds to pay the translator.

Babelbee has just agreed to sponsor Fair Pen. We like their work in encouraging journalism in Africa, and we are happy to support it with free Dutch-English translations.

If you are a non-profit and need translations, email us (support-at-babelbee.com) and present your case. We may be able to offer you discounted or fully sponsored translations.

We will keep adding other language-versions of our site. Next up are Russuan, Hindi and Japanese. Please let us know if you want to work on those (we’ll pay you, but the salary is modest )

With BabelBee Places, you can have you own private space on our web site, with the same features that make BabelBee a hit among translators, and additional features to simplify and optimize the logistics of your translation project management

• get bids from your translators or assign jobs to a designated
  translator.
  
• exchange files with your translators easily and securely.
  
• centralize all communications in one place, while still receiving alerts,in your own e-mail inbox.
  
• view the status of all your pending jobs in your personalized control panel
  
• grow your translator network, by tapping into the public pool of Babelbee freelancers as needed.
  
• increase your business by bidding on public jobs.
  

And of course we will never share the files, names or email addresses from your space with others.

What’s in it for BabelBee?

In cases where your translation needs are not met by your own network of translators, we hope you will consider posting your request in the public area of BabelBee. If you are coping with sudden *spikes in workload*, or if you are looking for very *specific language pairs*, you can tap into the large, worldwide pool of translators that are current BabelBee members. Also, if you decided to process payments through our site, we would charge a commission as we do in our public area. But if none of that happens, no worries – you are still welcome to use our system for *free*.

*How can I start?*

Sign up at BabelBee, then follow the link to start your private place. Let BabelBee Places solve your communication headaches.

We set up Mini-Translations for these situations. A free bulletin board where you can post short translations – a few lines typically – and ask volunteers to come up with translations. It’s all free (sorry, no money to be made…) and it’s all public (maybe better not post that email?!). We hope that you will all have a lot of fun with it!

Choose a language: (come on, challenge yourself a bit…)

• English
• French (a.k.a. Français)
• Chinese (中文)
• Korean (한국어)

• When posting a request, clients felt that they want to be able to see right away how many translators (either native or non-native speakers) will be available for a given language pair.
• Translators felt they needed a “forum” type discussion with each request where they can ask questions about the request.
• What to do when a translation is delivered but there is no reaction from the client? The current vote is to allow the client 10 days to respond, after which the translation is automatically approved and the translator is paid.
• Users felt it was important to have the website interface, as well as the email messages that the system sends out, in various languages. With so many translators around – that should be no problem! We have planned for the Babelbee interface to be available in English, French, Chinese and Korean initially, with Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and German to follow shortly.