Poll: How many words do you translate per hour? Người gửi thông tin lên tuyến đoạn: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Natalia Zudaire 
Ac-hen-ti-na
Local time: 05:18
Thành viên kể từ 2004
English to Spanish
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| I would like to know | Jul 29, 2005 |
How do those people translate over 500 words an hour?????!!!
Can enyone tell me?
=)
Natalia
| | | | kimjasper
Đan Mạch
Local time: 09:18
Thành viên kể từ 2006
English to Danish
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| Translation speed | Jul 29, 2005 |
Natalia Zudaire wrote:
How do those people translate over 500 words an hour?????!!!
Natalia
- Get your source language under your skin: read a lot, speak a lot
- Acquire fast typing skills
- Rehearse researching skills (in at least 3 ways: google, google, and then google...)
- Acquire basic knowledge in as many areas as possible (be curious)
- Use generic computer tools to support your translation work: spreadsheets, documents, databases
- Be effective and efficient communicating with your client / agency (e-mail rather than phone calls and meetings)
- Use specific productivity tools (CAT tools) as much as possible. A 10% productivity gain is 10% today, tomorrow, all of next year etc.
- Bring pre and post translations phases (e.g. proposals, negotiation, research, proofreading) down as much as possible so you can spend 75% of your day on heads down translation
| | | | Natalia Zudaire
Ac-hen-ti-na
Local time: 05:18
Thành viên kể từ 2004
English to Spanish
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kimjasper wrote:
- Get your source language under your skin: read a lot, speak a lot
I do.
- Acquire fast typing skills
I guess I could be faster.
- Rehearse researching skills (in at least 3 ways: google, google, and then google...)
I do. But I don't trust everything I read on the web, so I back it up sometimes with other sources.
- Acquire basic knowledge in as many areas as possible (be curious)
I am curious, I read a lot about almost everything.
- Use generic computer tools to support your translation work: spreadsheets, documents, databases
I do.
- Be effective and efficient communicating with your client / agency (e-mail rather than phone calls and meetings)
I am.
- Use specific productivity tools (CAT tools) as much as possible. A 10% productivity gain is 10% today, tomorrow, all of next year etc.
I use almost all of them in the most efficient way.
- Bring pre and post translations phases (e.g. proposals, negotiation, research, proofreading) down as much as possible so you can spend 75% of your day on heads down translation
What do you mean? What I understand by you saying this is: don´t spend much time negotiating with the client (How do you manage that? It is not always so easy...), don´t research, just search (??), and skip proofreading?
I translate around 400/500 words per hour, but then I spend the rest of the time rereading my translations. I don´t like to take any risk on delivering something I have not reviewed myself!
BTW, what was your answer to the poll?
Natalia
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pcovs
Đan Mạch
Local time: 09:18
English to Danish
| "Practise, man, practise" ;-) | Jul 30, 2005 |
Well, in my case it's a matter of fast typing, the use of CAT tools and .... I get a lot of texts within the same area!
By now, I don't have to do much research for a lot of my jobs, since I have already done this research for previous translations within this area. This helps immensely regarding translation speed.
Also, after a job creating a new TM for the client, I import the translation units into one big TM for my own purpose.
This way I have everything comp... See more Well, in my case it's a matter of fast typing, the use of CAT tools and .... I get a lot of texts within the same area!
By now, I don't have to do much research for a lot of my jobs, since I have already done this research for previous translations within this area. This helps immensely regarding translation speed.
Also, after a job creating a new TM for the client, I import the translation units into one big TM for my own purpose.
This way I have everything compiled into one big TM, and I will have the full benefit of all my previous translation work. This really helps a lot.
(For those, who might be wondering: No, I don't copy a TM, which was sent from the client, since this is the client's property, as I understand it!)
Anyway, it's not about who's faster, it's about delevering a good translation ▲ Collapse
| | | | Natalia Zudaire
Ac-hen-ti-na
Local time: 05:18
Thành viên kể từ 2004
English to Spanish
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PCovs wrote:
Anyway, it's not about who's faster, it's about delevering a good translation
| | | | Eva Blanar
Hungary
Local time: 09:18
English to Hungarian
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| 1000+ words/ HOUR?! | Jul 30, 2005 |
Come on...
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