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One Translator's Thoughts on Software Localization
Facets of Software Localization
Cómo usar el gerundio en español
El componente enciclopédico de la traducción
Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs
FInd&Replace Hints
How Not To Join Sentences in TM Tools
How to convey the connotative meaning of a word into another language
How to find a translation for the name of a plant, animal etc in Google
Proofreading with DéjàVu
43+ Million New Users Are Waiting For Arabic SEO
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
Subtitling - basic principles
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
Video subtitling
An Approach to the Translation of Literature: Rich Points & What They Reveal
El significado de los dichos populares
How to translate culture-bound elements (in Italian)
How to Read Culturally Diverse Authors: Introduction: Alejo Carpentier
Un secreto bien guardado
Trying to Publish
Corpus Linguistics: Meaning in Context
How to find direct clients
More useful shortcuts for Word
Spanish punctuation
Spanish punctuation - Continued
Avoid the "Brazil Risk"
Is Subcontractor a virtue, or a vice?
Building a Freelance Translation Office
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
How to prepare freelance-specific CV
Say Goodbye to the Monday Blues
Be considered for projects
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para que los traductores públicos se registren en la jurisdicción de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina?
Guide to accept on line payment
How to collect late payments
How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing
IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/1
Keep your child immersed in your native language
Learning a new language - tips and tricks
KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO
Blue Board - an overview
Comments on ATA Conference in Toronto
How to improve your listing in the ProZ.com freelancer directory
Hosting: Using FTP
Organizing a ProZ.com powwow in your city
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
Instructions on how to enable your browsers to be able to read Devanagri (Hindi).
"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator
Cómo ser un buen intérprete simultáneo
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
How To optimally use Google
How to unite all your Instant Messengers
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Useful keyboard shortcuts in Word
Useful shortcuts
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
Translating HTML files
Another TRADOS help (Spanish)
Basic Wordfast tutorial in Bulgarian/ Начално ръководство за Wordfast на български език
How to apply find/replace in Trados
How to translate a CAD drawing with a CAT tool
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
Demystifying Software Globalization
A Journey into Chinese-English Environmental Translation
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
Engineering Translations: Building Bridges
The Importance of Knowing Your Local Vernacular
The Role of Communication in Peace and Relief Mission Negotiations
Memory Training in Interpreting
The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
Neologisms in International Development
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
Review of Atril’s Déjà Vu 2 The Happy Hoarder
WordFisher for MS Word An alternative to translation memory programs for freelance translators?
An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
Awful Translation Fails You Won’t Forget
El reto de formar intérpretes en el siglo XXI
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
Translating the Financial Statements of a Brazilian Bank into English What a Brazilian bank must call a van Gogh
The Language of the ICMS Tax in Brazil
The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
The Invisible in Translation: The Role of Text Structure
Philosophy, Anthropology, and Linguistics in Translation
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
The Business of Translating
In Pursuit of the Cheapest Translation Cost Is translation still a service or has it become a commodity?
Marketing Your Translation Services: Test Translations—To Do or Not to Do?
The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators
Translation Economics 101
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Two New Portuguese Dictionaries
Book Review: Science in Translation
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
It's a Small World
Translation: A Market in Crisis?
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Source Language versus Target Language Bias
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translation and Typesetting
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
The Power of Film Translation
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
The Importance of Teaching Cohesion in Translation on a Textual Level - A Comparison of test scores before and after teaching
Knowing Before Learning: Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 1a puntata: BABYLON BUILDER
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 2a puntata: WINALIGN
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Seven easy (and free) ways to boost your profile traffic
The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
How to find direct clients!?
La Profesión de Interprete
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
Polishing Your Translation Style-Part 3
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
Translation reviews
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Prices, Service and Marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
What is T4K? And why should you care?
Precio, servicio y marketing
Doing What With My Preface?
Guida semplificata all’uso di Trados
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
The difference between editing and proofreading
Editing Segments and Concordance Search in various CAT tools
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traduciendo errores originales
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
The Effects of Differences Among Rhetorical Categorizations in Persian and English on Translation of Persian Modern Poetry: A Case Study of Differences Among Persian and English Rhetorical Categorizations in Sepehri's Poems and their translations
How to organize a translation office - with Translation Office 3000
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Personal Finance for Freelancers
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Translating Certificates
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
La localización de software
Translating certificates
¿Quién cuida al proveedor de servicios?
Consideraciones en torno al lenguaje especializado
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for outsourcers and translation companies
How to translate changing documents
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Make the first impression count!
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Applying Translation Office 3000 to your daily professional life
A Beginner's Guide to Translation Errors
Making Your Resume Stand-Out: A Lesson in Professionalism
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Project Managers in a Translation Agency — Who Are They?
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
Spell It Right! (in the context of Hindi)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
The Use of Metaphors
Dolmetschen im Krieg
Language Politics
How to Translate Manuals for Mechanical Equipments?
Switching word order in MS Word
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
MyGreeklish to Standard Greeklish Translator needed
How to save neck, back, wrists
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Utilisation des codes ASCII pour les lettres accentuées en français (non présentes sur les touches du clavier)
CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA
Win Win Communication
A Price That Is Too High to Pay
Getting started as a Freelancer: one person’s story.
Name of translator in publications (books or other)
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
Entrer en traduction, immigrer, l’un et l’autre, quelle histoire !
Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Wordfast Beginner's Guide
KudoZ di Proz.com (Pembaca Indonesia)
You get what you pay for
Translating culture-specific notions
Different sections in a test make the test more reliable
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
Les traducteurs et la révolution informatique
Lost (and Found) In Translation
IT'S 9:00 O'CLOCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CLIENTS’ SENSITIVE DATA IS?
'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach; a comparison of the English original and its French and Spanish translations
An introduction to ProZ.com Connect!
Die Crux mit den Probetexten
Ten Commandments of a Freelance Translator
How to generate a multiple language terminology db from a Web glossary
Smilies & Other Basic Text Formats in Proz.com Forums: Quick Reference Guide
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
Using Web 2.0 technologies for translation business
Beginner's first steps with Similis
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
Challenges and nature of a formal language strategy
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translations: Do Them In-House or Contract Them Out?
Why teach English as a foreign language? What's in it for me?
Teaching English to second language learners
Nedir bu CAT Araçlarını ilginç kılan?
Developing Departments of English
Currency Risk Mitigation 101 for Translators
Translation Company Owners - Do you have a job or a business?
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Accents in Subtitles: Can subtitles portray the difference? Analysing Pedro Almodóvar’s All About my Mother.
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
A Project Naming Convention & Workflow suggestion
Translating the Crisis
Hosting: Using databases
Business Plans for the Translator
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
The role of mentoring in professional development and business promotion
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
Domestication vs. Foreignization in English-Arabic Translation
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
Brazilian vs. European (aka Continental or Iberian) Portuguese explained for non-Portuguese speakers
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
A Tradução Audiovisual
Hiring right - road to success
Internet & Applications for Translators
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
Mengapa Tarif Penerjemahan Buku Cenderung Rendah?
Klien Adalah Raja?
John Donne’s metaphysical poetry
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
¿Cómo traducir verbos de movimiento del inglés al español?
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Kasus Tuduhan Salah-Terjemah Buku Menkes vs Undang-undang Penerjemahan
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Likestilling og språkbruk
Peeking what’s inside the software localization & internationalization (Indonesia local context)
Buchrezension Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen - Spanisch
¿Deben los traductores de países en desarrollo aceptar tarifas más bajas cuando trabajan para el mercado internacional?
Naturalness in Translation
Lost in translation? Common terms used by translation agencies
Organinzing Your Day
Language services – the bedrock of knowledge services in today’s knowledge economy
TIPS ON TEACHING: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
How to Increase Your Rates
ESTUDIO SOBRE PREGUNTAS KUDOS CERRADAS SIN PUNTAJE
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION: SOME PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
A little learning
Industry Sector: Efficient Technical Translation
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (1/2)
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (2/2)
Torre de Blogbel
KUDOS - REALIDADES Y MITOS
Of Translation Jobs and Glossaries
Finding your style
¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?
Aligning texts with Hunalign
How to conquer new clients
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
Come crearsi un sito web in poche ore
你做过语言对比吗？
Translation of Published Works
Ortografía española: cuatro errores comunes… entre los traductores
Memorie di traduzione in versione mini
8 Tips for secure files
Targets, Productivity and Pricing
Pinyin or characters?
From or into?
Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre
Translating PDF Files with Free Tools
Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)
KISAH PENERJEMAHAN THE FIFTH COLUMN KARYA HEMINGWAY
Bilingualism
Romanisation of Arabic words
Test Translations - Tips for Success
Trabajar en casa: un placer
Sulitkah Menjadi Penerjemah?
TESOL qualifications:- which one to choose?
Slang (American)
How to be a successful interpreter?
Truth and Consequences
Business letters in Japanese
Using IMAP for emails provides backup and ease of access
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
LANGUAGE LAPSES COULD COST YOU MILLIONS*
Lost in Translation: culchies
TRANSLATORS NOW AND THEN - HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THEIR TRADE
FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME TO DIE-HARD TRANSLATORS
This could spell trouble
Lost in Translation: craic
Lost in Translation: bona fide
Understanding Polish English Pronunciation: Tips for Interpreters and EFL Teachers
Teaching English as A Second Language
Translating while Travelling
Statistical Machine Translation and Example-based Machine Translation
Creativity Needed in Translation
What arguments are there to justify rejecting “fluency” in translations and adopting instead a “foreignising” translation strategy? Discuss with reference to the work of Venuti and/or Berman.
MÉTODOS PARA CONSTRUIR GLOSARIOS PARA SER USADOS EN BABYLON Y PROGRAMAS DE TRADUCCIÓN POR COMPUTADORA.
Shot Down in No Man's Language
The ProZ.com saga
Microsoft Accounting 2009 Express as a free translation office management solution.
Automating Your Day at the Computer
Subtitling of Hindi films in European Languages Through the Window of English
Playing Machine Translation at the end
Criteria in translation industry - First part
Target language and the need for being native
A Sentence from Translator's Life (Customer Memo)
Some brazilian-portuguese slangs
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 1er episodio: BABYLON BUILDER
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 3er episodio: archivos .xls e .ppt con Trados Workbench y TagEditor
FAQ per il traduttore freelance
Best Practice per il traduttore freelance
Turning Thorns into Roses: Managing Challenging Clients
Teaching English as a second language - beginner level
Teaching English as a second language
Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
Abu Said's Mystical Poetry
The Continuing Evolution of Automated Translation Technology: RbMT vs. SMT
TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS
La catena del valore nella traduzione - Welcome to the Translation Party
ING or S: A Matter of Ending
Between English and Indonesian
With Naturalness, Naturally
La recherche du Graal ou le mythe de la qualité
Algunas de las dificultades de la traducción del inglés al español
El proceso de comunicación desde la perspectiva del dinero, el poder y la mentira. La interpretación en un Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE MACHINE TRANSLATING
A translator's CV - A translator's best friend
Translating from 'Marketese English'
Dos Fundamentos na Profissão de Tradutor
Teaching English to second language learners
Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica
5 points fondamentaux pour démarrer en freelance
The loss of mother tongue
The Translator: From prestige to invisibility, across centuries and cultures
DIFFERENCE OF USAGE SIMPLIFIED BETWEEN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INDICATIVE FORMS IN FRENCH
Spreading of Translation
Relevance, honesty and fun: a light-hearted view of the keys to teaching English.
Windows, Mac OS o Linux?
Online Language Services Business Management for Security and Growth
Ressource pour InDesign
Finesse in Serbian localizations and advertisement texts
Bahasa Indonesia and Information Technology
National Language versus Regional Language
Português PT versus Português BR
Translation Services Topics: Pros and Cons of TM Software in a Working Relationship
Come organizzare e gestire il lavoro da casa
How to speed up patents translation with some easy tools
Be friend with earlier standardized, popular, and slang languages
EFL: Cooperative Learning
Роль творчої особистості перекладача у передачі стилю автора (на матеріалі англомовних перекладів казки І.Франка “Лис Микита")
Казкова спадщина І.Франка в контексті перекладної літератури США (перекладознавчий аспект).
Educating the Client, or Zen and the Art of Sanity Maintenance (*)
«Майстерня синхронного перекладу: the devil is in the details»
Project Management in Translation
¿Cómo se formó el Colegio de Traductores Públicos e Intérpretes de la Provincia de Buenos Aires? Lo que es y lo que brinda a sus miembros.
La méthode GTD ou comment s'organiser efficacement
Standard English & English Varieties
Running Idiom Desktop Workbench on Windows 8
Accentuation
Las bases de estandarización en el cobro del trabajo de traducción
Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 1
Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 2
Tom, Dick and Harry.
The year so far - a light-hearted look at a busy semester
Marketing for Translators: how to create a compelling domain name or tagline to boost your business?
HOW TO CHOOSE A TRANSLATOR, INTERPRETER OR A LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONAL TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS
On the Literary Translator’s Invisibility
Getting Personal with Languages
ANÁLISIS DE UNA OBRA LITERARIA Y DEL PAPEL DE LA LITERATURA FRANCÓFONA NO FRANCESA:
LAS LENGUAS Y DIALECTOS DE ALEMANIA
Analysis of Gregory Rabassa’s translation of Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez
Optimizing your Time with Keyboard Shortcuts
Starters’ Set of Hot Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Part II
Starters’ Set of Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Part I
Da crase às preposições, artigos e demonstrativos
Translation techniques used in the translation of english phrasal verbs into farsi: the case of lord of the flies and its 3 farsi translations
Good Proofreaders/Bad Proofreaders
L'eredità latina
L'eredità germanica
Linguaggio e cervello
English Keys and Turkish Heads
On Translation and Translatability
How to convert string text for translation
Dificultades de la traducción de los textos deportivos
Exporting TM's from Idiom
How to apply to agencies and outsourcers
Business Plans for the Translator
Introduction to Song Translation
La formazione accademica di un traduttore
Legal-Linguistics for the United Nations, States and Other Non-State Actors
Using the ProZ.com Blue Board
RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHEN NOT TO ACCEPT THE TRANSLATION ORDER
L’organisation du marché de la traduction en quelques mots – Mondialisation, externalisation et intermédiaires
La lingua inglese: cenni storici
Les traducteurs indépendants ont-ils encore leur place dans ce monde en pleine mutation ?
5 business mistakes that beginning freelance translators make and how to avoid them
As a freelance translator, do you have any rights regarding Copyright?
Understanding Compensation Issues related to PEMT
El concepto de desautomatización de las unidades fraseológicas
The Translator's Image in Sydney Pollack's Film The Interpreter (The Ethical Dilemma).
DIVERSITY IN ETHICAL CODES FOR THE PROFESSIONS OF INTERPRETER AND TRANSLATOR
Joomla- Getting Online Without HTML (Part 1:Overview)
The Gaps
Fundamentos de traducción a través del análisis de la traducción de Orlando, de Virginia Woolf (Parte II): modulación, equivalencia y adaptación.
What About the Gluts?
ProZ.com series on Risk Management: Scammers who steal translations
Red flags: a few things to watch out for when dealing with clients
Going Freelance: are you ready?
Ces arnaqueurs qui volent vos traductions
The Sounds of Confusion
Las preposiciones “para” y “por” en español: ejemplos y usos
When You Are Unsure About What You Have Heard, Why Do You Not Try To Ask Them To Spell It? – A Case of Unfair Rejection
Posicionamiento de nuestra página web
Técnicas de traducción periodística
Gli adattamenti francesi de Il tacchino di Georges Feydeau:
ProZ.com membership works: a success story
The English, The Portuguese, and The Latin
Akademik Çeviri Süreci
What is a PO and why is it important in freelance translation?
Origins, and Recovery of Common Sense
Translation Can Change Lives
Translating Words without Counterparts in the Target Language
Essential Notes
Traduttori, CAT Tool e utilizzo dei sistemi Mac
Trabajar para agencias internacionales
Case Study: Contrastive discussion of the structural, lexical and grammatical properties of the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) genre in British English and Russian, including cross-cultural differences
Anglicismos léxicos y sintácticos en la traducción médica
Ensinar o inglês como segunda língua
El idioma español en Cuba y República Dominicana
La representación del personaje de Tristana en la novela de Galdós y en la película de Luis Buñuel
Relaciones de poder en La casa de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca
El naturalismo en la obra Los pazos de Ulloa
Freelance and getting other extra earnings (in Armenian)
IDENTITY SHIFTS IN JAMIE’S PERSONALITY CRISIS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH VOICE, LEXIS AND DIALOG
From teaching to translation
Toward defining translation in relation to its transparency
STAGE DIRECTIONS AND CHARACTERS’ DIALOG AS DOMINANT TOOLS IN CONSTRUCTING THE MINDSET OF BRITISH COMMUNITY TOWARD MINORITIES’ INTEGRATION IN GROW YOUR OWN
VUELVA CUANDO TENGA LA NOVELA ACABADA
Freelance Translations and Internet Sources
The only way / English
Competing... for the translator?
The Friendliness of False Friends (Part 1)
Cultural and Language Boundaries: Once Upon a time…in Pamplona – Colombia
Riding the linguistic wave in Brazil - from reluctant schoolboy to happy linguist!
Are legal translation services misunderstood by international business?
Yo quiero ser comparatista ¿y usted?
Calculating your rate as a freelance translator
CAT Tools – To Choose or Not To Choose
Court Matters: Simultaneous or Consecutive?
Negotiating with Agencies for Better Rates
Translation without the internet
Note taking for long consecutive interpretation : Use of mind mapping techniques
Cultural Translation: Option or Sin?
La Fiesta del Chivo y posibles problemas de traducción
Finding the First Clients for Our Translation Business
Les acteurs du marché de la traduction en France
5 steps to improve your translation business
The CAT tool SDL TRADOS error related to Korean fonts.
Die Problematik der Übersetzung des Geschäftsberichtes Deutsch/Russisch. Umsetzung von IFRS und US-GAAP bei der Aufstellung des Jahresabschlusses in Russland
How to translate for a publishing house: An Italian psychologist's experience
The Relevance of MT Post-editing Today and Tomorrow
Medical Translation
Marketing em Países Socialistas
Understanding Contract Clauses
Machine Translation of Poetry
Translating New Realities: Animal Ethics and Veganism
Il genere grammaticale
Big tenders for small jobs are not realistic
Translation and the Fly in the Glass of Milk
How to Teach English As a Second Language
Interpreter working in Court
MI NUEVO AMIGO.
Goodbye Barcelona, goodbye traductor
Arabic-English Translation of “Scream” Idiomatic Expressions
Handling time off as a freelancer or sole trader
Simple rules of email etiquette
Keep your system healthy by using the System Recovery Image in Windows 10
Translation Agency: Behind the Scenes
Sobre impagos y cómo protegernos
Peculiarità della traduzione giuridica
La traduzione medico-scientifica
Translating Literature and Poetry: Useful Tips
Ukrainian Translation Facts: Tips for Clients and QA Teams
Accuracy in Interpreting
The Routine of a Professional Interpreter
Learn how to use Alt codes to access special characters faster
The art of translation: pitfalls and strategies
The Aesthetics of Saudade
Come si diventa interpreti?
Come l'Uomo Ragno salvò il mio interpretariato all'ONU
Best ways to actually learn a new language
A few notes on The Great Gatsby
Do You Have Non-English Speaking Employees? If So, You Want To Read This!
5 Proven ways to promote your translation services
Freelancing: a Hermit’s Daily Routine
Common and Usual Easily Beat Literal Compatibility
Let’s Count: Keeping the Money You Have Earned
Let’s Count 2: Converting Rates
Confusions of untranslatability
My experience with IoL Diptrans Exam English to Chinese
Dicas de administração para a tradução freelancer
I do not die I enter into life
Allegory of Vanity or “Vanitas”, by Juan de Nisa Valdés Leal
Saint Francis, by Bellini (Frick Collection)
Poussin and Rubens Reason and Passion
The Lute Player, by Caravaggio (MET)
TTT: Technical Translation Triangle
The right search leads to accurate results
TRADUCTION DES TEXTES MEDICAUX
A Powerful Tool to Gauge Translation Efforts
Important Elements of a Multi-Language Video Subtitling Project
Translation Industry Takeaways: Out-of-the-blue clients? Scenarios & Solutions
Translation Industry Takeaways: ETA Projects & Character Limitations? Scenarios & Solutions
El alma de un lingüista
Abusing practices among translation industry
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The basics of written business plans and how freelance translators can benefit from them.


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