Welcome to the SVVT website
The Women Translators and Interpreters Network ('SVVT'), which was established in 1981, is a network of around 100 professional women translators and interpreters who support and encourage each other in their work.
Translators and interpreters have a crucial role to play in today's world of rapid internationalisation. They bridge the gap between parties who don't speak each other's languages. An excellent knowledge of languages is obviously vital, but so too is a knowledge of a country's history and culture and specialisation in a certain subject.
If you are looking for a translator or interpreter for a specific language combination, you can search the SVVT directory of members (in Dutch).
Click on Activities and Membership rules to find out more about what SVVT can offer and on joining our network. Please contact our secretary if you have any further questions.
SVVT has helped to prepare two brief guides to give clients a better understanding of what the work of translators and interpreters involves. Click on the title to open the Dutch-language version of the document in PDF format.
The Vertaalwijzer (PDF, 101 KB) focuses on translation. 'There are hundreds of ways a translation project can go off track: ridiculous deadlines, ambiguities in source text amplified by the translator not asking questions, misapplied MT (machine translation), no proofreading of typeset text by a native speaker, blissful unawareness of an over-confident translator operating in a vacuum, poor coordination of large projects, poor cheap freelance translator, poor expensive freelance translator, poor cheap translation company, poor expensive translation company, no client input, and on and on.' (Extract from the English version 'Translation - getting it right', available from the ITI).
The Tolkwijzer (in Dutch only, PDF, 398 KB) is dedicated to interpreting.