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Proofreading with DéjàVu
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
La traducción de las Metáforas
ten commandments of a successful author
Trying to Publish
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Punctuation tips
Spanish punctuation
Spanish punctuation - Continued
Creating and using a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
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Being Freelance translator in Spain
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
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Say Goodbye to the Monday Blues
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IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/2
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Learning a new language - tips and tricks
The use of cases in Russian last names.
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Blue Board - an overview
Hosting: Using email
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How Not To Catch a Virus at Home
How to unite all your Instant Messengers
International Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
Using Yahoo Briefcase to quickly share files and images
Word: Secrets and shortcuts
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
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
Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Demystifying Software Globalization
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
Neologisms in International Development
Handling Greek and Latin Terms in Spanish Medical Translation
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
Review of Atril’s Déjà Vu 2 The Happy Hoarder
An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
From Shoebox to SQL
Working from audio recordings
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
La traduzione giuridica
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
Language and Choice for Learning/Translating English
The Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
ProZ.com Translation User Manual
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
Sorry Guys, You Can't Win
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
Heading for Trouble
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
It's a Small World
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translator, Adapter, Screenwriter Translating for the audiovisual
In the Footsteps of Giants Translating Shakespeare for Dubbing
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
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Coping with You
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
Corpus-based Teaching: The Use of Original and Translated Texts in the training of legal translators
The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation
The Importance of Teaching Cohesion in Translation on a Textual Level - A Comparison of test scores before and after teaching
Translation and Interpretation Work for the LNG Tangguh Project in Papua, Indonesia
A Discussion on Features of Financial English Vocabulary and its Translation into Chinese
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 1a puntada
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 2a puntada
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Seven easy (and free) ways to boost your profile traffic
A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
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La Profesión de Interprete
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator and how to organise your workday and life
Working with Simultaneous Interpreters
Translator's Knowledgebase Requirements
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
Customizing the Wordfast template
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
Polishing Your Translation Style-Part 3
Translation's Lost Art
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
¿Ordenador o Computadora?
Translation reviews
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Prix, service et marketing
Prices, Service and Marketing
My golden rules for quality assurance
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files
Mic ghid de citire/scriere în Unicode pe ProZ.com
Personal Finance for Freelancers
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Mentoring new translators
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
La localización de software
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
Consideraciones en torno al lenguaje especializado
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for translators and interpreters
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for outsourcers and translation companies
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Make the first impression count!
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
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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
Apuntes básicos para evitar algunos problemas innecesarios al traducir
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
A TagEditor Secret
Confessions of a translator heretic
Setting up shop in Jakarta Indonesia (part one)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Translating idioms and buzzwords
Language Politics
Translating Certificates
How to Translate Manuals for Mechanical Equipments?
Switching word order in MS Word
Closing old Kudoz questions
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
Common Mistakes in Translating from Chinese into English
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Algunos interrogantes vigentes en el mundo de la traducción.
Utilisation des codes ASCII pour les lettres accentuées en français (non présentes sur les touches du clavier)
Wie man den PC im Internet standfest macht (Oktober 2006)
Getting started as a Freelancer: one person’s story.
9 reasons for the most simple, economical, fast and effective way of marketing by freelance translators
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
Personalidad del Interprete
A NON-NATIVE USER PERSPECTIVE OF CORPUS-BASED DICTIONARIES
Slightly more advanced SEO for your website
Entrer en traduction, immigrer, l’un et l’autre, quelle histoire !
EXPLAIN or TRANSLATE: a perpetual dilemma for English-language teachers
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Help Translate ProZ.com Into Your Language
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Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
Migration from SDL Termbase to Trados Multiterm
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Team Collaboration
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
El Interprete y Su Par
Lost (and Found) In Translation
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach; a comparison of the English original and its French and Spanish translations
Die Crux mit den Probetexten
Smilies & Other Basic Text Formats in Proz.com Forums: Quick Reference Guide
The invisible client and service provider
Beginner's first steps with Similis
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
Are you a "green" translator?
Interpreting into a foreign language
Why teach English as a foreign language? What's in it for me?
Teaching English to second language learners
Dealing with clients not paying your invoice
Court in Translation - Common areas of Court Interpreting and Screen Translation
Diferencias entre el lenguaje literario y el científico y sus efectos para el traductor
Developing Departments of English
Professionalism as a key to success
The Communicational Circuit of Translation
The consulting approach to translation - a case study
Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Governmentspeak
Business Plans for the Translator
MemoQ - what does it offer?
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
Domestication vs. Foreignization in English-Arabic Translation
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Marine Science 101: SEO, Good Copy, and Translation
Beginner's first steps with MemoQ and Wordfast
Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities
Brazilian vs. European (aka Continental or Iberian) Portuguese explained for non-Portuguese speakers
How to localize webhelp files
Pendrive for a translator
The issue of non-native English-speakers vs. native English-speakers as teachers of English as a second language
O Paladino de Luis Vaz de Camoes
Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online
Klien Adalah Raja?
Likestilling og språkbruk
4 formas de inmersión cultural para empezar bien tu carrera
Çevirmen ve Çeviri Üzerine
The Student & Teacher Relationship
Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders
¿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
Language services – the bedrock of knowledge services in today’s knowledge economy
Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
ESTABLISHING YOURSELF AS A TRANSLATOR – WHO DO YOU TRUST IN THIS BUSINESS?
TIPS ON TEACHING: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
Grow Your LSP Client Base
How to Increase Your Rates
EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION: SOME PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
Penerjemahan dan Budaya
VIDEO TRANSLATION 101
¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?
Suggestion for teaching translation in Iran's Universities
Come tradurre il testo contenuto nelle immagini
Certificates, Curriculum Vitaes and other Credentials: Creating an Important Translation Specialty
Por sus tarifas los conoceréis
Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners
8 Tips for secure files
Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)
KISAH PENERJEMAHAN THE FIFTH COLUMN KARYA HEMINGWAY
Romanisation of Arabic words
Trabajar en casa: un placer
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