Useful links

Books and tools of the trade

For a list of the tangible resources I have used to learn languages, develop my translation skills, and become a freelance translator, check out my Amazon store. Those are products available on Amazon that I have found helpful to have a personal copy of. Useful reference sites and information sources are listed below.

Hungarian language

• 10 Thousand Steps: A Hungarian Bookstore (located in NYC)
• More Hungarian-language bookstores in North America
• Typeit.org, for those pesky non-standard characters in the Hungarian alphabet (uppercase and lowercase!)
• Magyar-angol EU szótár
• Digitized English-Hungarian dictionary (an excellent resource for some rarer words)

French language

• A list of faux-amis
• French-language bookstores in North America
• My favorite FR<>EN online dictionary
• List of camfranglais (Cameroonian French) glossaries

Legal translation

• JURIPOLE (French-English articles, dictionaries, etc)
• LawyerIntl (English-language legal forms, dictionaries, etc)
• US Federal Register (Guides to legal drafting)
• 50 tips for contract writing
• Library of Congress Guide to Law—Hungary
• Library of Congress Guide to Law—France