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Hi everyone,
I have been established as a freelance translator in my home country for more than two decades and I am now moving to Sweden. Since I don't speak Swedish yet and have no id
... for your advice.
Ahmad, I downloaded the Cute FTP and it really does seem to be very simple to use. I also checked the links recommended by Ramon and Chris, which seem to be very usef
I try to do a little bit of (almost) everything; any physical activity followed by a hot shower, good wine and a delicious meal, perhaps some reading, a movie or an interesting convers
Dear colleagues,
I recently finished working on my own homepage (very simple Frontpage piece of art), but I now have problems uploading it to the webpage.
I was wondering if anyone of
As far I as know, I can send money via PayPal to anyone who has an e-mail address without the need of having a bank account (have done that in the past).
Well, I am willing to pay a reasonable cost of such service, because it will help me deal with my accounting, not to mention the fact that PayPal only works in certain countries.
I wonder
My personal opinion is that TO 3000 has too many functions; I prefer to keep it simple which is why I went back to my Excel/Access database. However, I am not saying anything negative abou
Dear colleagues,
I recently purchased Dragon Naturally Speaking 8.0. I would like to know how to use it together with Wordfast.Any tips are welcome since I couldn't find much on the
Hello again,
I am on the mailing list of the Interpret. dept. of the La Laguna University and according to them you can do the test in Tenerife (13-18th June) or Madrid (20.-25th June).
...but as far as I know and according to some people around here, you transfer the money to your credit card or it's taken automatically from you bank account AFTER making the purchase.
I have an actual bank account where I recieve money from my Moneybooker's account, but the problem is that the other day, while purchasing the Wordfast License through Proz, the only p
I had no idea, but then again, I am quite new to both systems.
The problem is that most of my "assets" :) are in Moneybookers because of PayPal's bad publicity, but sadly enough, I cannot
Moneybookers says that I can send money to anyone with an existing e-mail address even if they don't have a Moneybookers account.
Where is that person suppose to recieve it?
And another
[quote]Hilary Davies wrote:
I work about 70 hours a week - if I didn't need to eat and sleep, I would earn more! ;-)[/quote]
The same happens to me, but I must tell you that it was o
Hola Lorena,
en Eslovenia, primero tuve que ingresar una cantidad de dinero menor de 15 Euros a mi cuenta bancaria. Junto con el ingreso vino una clave. Con esta clave me meti en mi cue
As soon as my translation memory for Spanish-Slovene legal terms is finished, I am more then happy to pass a copy to my colleague (and competitor) because in a small country such as Sl
... simultaneous interpreting is payed better then consecutive, which is considered to be slightly easier, and we have a flat rate (up to 7 hours) as well as an hourly rate.
Nice weeken
Hello all,
my friend is looking for an English-Arabic online dictionary on computer science, electronics, software or anything related.
Any tip or resource will be greatly welcomed
¡Hola!
Me gustaria saber cual es vuestra opinion en lo que se refiere a las librerias jurídicas en Madrid. Tengo constancia de las siguientes librerias: Intercodex, Libros jurídi
Hi everyone,
I would like to hear from those of you who have attented this master at the university of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain or/and from those who have any information about
...because I am about to do my first simultaneous interpretation next week.It should be funny and interesting (I have been studying the material I was given for a whole week now) but I get
... I thank you all four your thoughts and suggestions.
You are right about improving the languages I already know..it is something one realizes with time.
All the best,
Nina
[quote]Aleksandr Okunev wrote:
You see, there are new translation sites popping up, good, or bad , but the fact is they are fragmenting the market and the result is disorder and decli
...and you will avoid a great deal of trouble and confusion later on; trust me:)
When I started invoicing, I created a time format rather then a client format (which I think is more pract
...may not be much for many (lucky) people, but I imagine it's a lot for Iraq.
Chek out this very interesting webpage:
http://www.williambowles.info/mideast/ gen-strike.html
...36h of constant work is a lot and if I ever accepted such a deadline, I would prefer to work for 14h, then sleep for 8h and work for another 14 hours once I had my rest and a good night
in the archives? Do you save them in a computer or on discs for future cases?
I have glossaries and contracts that I just don't want to lose because of further references, but on the othe
The other day I went to the Nokia shop in my town in order to obtain information about using Internet from my mobile phone.
Although still an expensive service, I find it very practical
Yes, we speak Spanglish all the time but lately we started to invent a brand new language which is Spanglishvenian:
Spanish + English + Slovenian.
We don't really mix all three langu
A client told me that they are required by the EU to use a specific software, based on a memory building function.
Could anyone with experience in this particular tool tell us how good an
I am looking for a more experienced collegue to teach me how to use Trados.
I live in Ljubljana. Payment per hour.This week would be ideal (I suppose 5-10 hours will do...).
Thank you!
Dear all,
I am sure that many of you use courier services in order to recieve or send the documents which need to be translated.
I would really like to hear your opinion on the quali
We are a Spanish-Slovenian couple and when we met we could only communicate in English, then I learned Spanish and now he is learning Slovene...so what we do is mix all of them (even o
...perhaps its because we can afford to think about our next holidays and people in their situations can only afford to think how to pay the bills and how to feed the kids.
I absolutely
..excluyendo la de tener un novio fraces que es, sin duda, la mejor manera de aprender la lengua, te puedo recomendar algunos otros.
Vive la lengua que quieres aprender aunque no estes en
Thank you all dear colleagues for your answers. I love coming here and getting first-hand, contrasted information. If I can help anyone in any way, just let me know.
P.S. Still don't
I am in the same mess as you are. I am thinking between Arabic, Portugese or Chinese. Now, you absolutely have to like the culture or the country where you are going to have to spend some
Hi everyone,
After years of using HP Officejet V40 fax, which to be honest doesn't provide the service that HP is known for, and after numerous intents of repairing it, I have decided t
I borrow this story from my friend who is a hairdresser (not that I dont have "stupid" stories of my own...).
Oneday a regular client comes in and, in front of everybody who was in the sa
I dont know if what I am about to say is very creative but it worked for me. I send out 10-20 mails everyday, addressed to companies of all types that have recently published a webpage.
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