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How to collect stories with PageMaker for Mac (and PC too) without Trados Story Collector
Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Word for Translators
43+ Million New Users Are Waiting For Arabic SEO
Subtitling - basic principles
Technical terms - translate or not translate?
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
Optimizing your website content for search engines
How to translate culture-bound elements (in Italian)
How to Read Culturally Diverse Authors: Introduction: Alejo Carpentier
Un secreto bien guardado
La traducción de las Metáforas
ten commandments of a successful author
Convalidaciones y Homologaciones en España de Títulos Extranjeros
Punctuation tips
Spanish punctuation
Avoid the "Brazil Risk"
How to give your Dutch customers a 40% discount
Working for Agencies
Being Freelance translator in Spain
Building a Freelance Translation Office
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
How to build a professional WEB SITE
Say Goodbye to the Monday Blues
Keeping your PC clean and safe
How to Become a Freelance Translator in France
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
To win jobs online--specialize!
How to collect late payments
How to limit the risk of not getting paid
More Money - Same Workload
An easy way to understand the proper use of the Tenses.
How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing
IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/1
Learning a new language - tips and tricks
KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO
Hosting: Using email
Hosting: Using FTP
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
How Valuable Time Can Be To A Freelance Translator And How To Organise Your Workday And Life
How Not To Catch a Virus at Home
How to avoid undesirable mail (read "spam") in your mail-box
Teaching English to second language learners
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
International Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators HOWTO
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
PDF files: creating, using, converting
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Useful keyboard shortcuts in Word
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
How to translate Mac PageMaker file with Trados on PC
Translating HTML files
Basic Wordfast tutorial in Bulgarian/ Начално ръководство за Wordfast на български език
Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Diesel Engines: A Brief Overview
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
Navigating through Treacherous Waters: The Translation of Geographical Names
The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
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
Trados - Is It a Must?
From Shoebox to SQL
Working from audio recordings
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
His Excellency and His Interpreter
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
La traduzione giuridica
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
Going Broke in Brazil
The Language of the ICMS Tax in Brazil
The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
Cultural Implications for translation
Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation
The Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
ProZ.com Translation User Manual
A Little Conversation about Tone and Translation
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Accommodation in Translation
Reflections of a Human Translator on Machine Translation Will MT Become the "Deus Ex Machina" Rendering Humans Obsolete in an Age When "Deus Est Machina?"
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
Translation Practices in International Advertising
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
The Business of Translating
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
Don Kiraly's A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
Some Ways of Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Russian
It's a Small World
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Collection
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translator, Adapter, Screenwriter Translating for the audiovisual
The Power of Film Translation
What Is the Word for "you" in Portuguese?
Into English
Coping with You
Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees
Translation: Back from Siberia
The Importance of Teaching Cohesion in Translation on a Textual Level - A Comparison of test scores before and after teaching
A Discussion on Features of Financial English Vocabulary and its Translation into Chinese
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
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
La teoría de la traducción como herramienta para cotizarse mejor ante potenciales clientes.
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
How to find direct clients?
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
La Profesión de Interprete
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
Understand Your Profile Page and Use it for Self-Promotion
Effective ProZ Quotes
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
Polishing Your Translation Style-Part 3
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
How to promote yourself
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Bidding on Proz
What is T4K? And why should you care?
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Precio, servicio y marketing
Desktop Search Programs
Guida semplificata all’uso di Trados
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
The difference between editing and proofreading
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traducción y lengua
Naming files in translation projects
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
How to be a real translator
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
Contracts I: Would you sign this?
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
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files
Mic ghid de citire/scriere în Unicode pe ProZ.com
Personal Finance for Freelancers
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Translating Certificates
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
¿Quién cuida al proveedor de servicios?
Consideraciones en torno al lenguaje especializado
ProZ.com site glossary
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Making Your Resume Stand-Out: A Lesson in Professionalism
Adaptation, Transliteration, Domestication
Choosing the correct font for your job (in the context of Hindi)
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Errors and Error Correction in Language Teaching
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Confessions of a translator heretic
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
A Translator's CV - a translator's best friend- Part II
A Translator's CV - a translator's best friend- Part III
How to Find Direct Clients?
Language Politics
Translating Certificates
Switching word order in MS Word
Closing old Kudoz questions
MyGreeklish to Standard Greeklish Translator needed
How to save neck, back, wrists
Utilisation des codes ASCII pour les lettres accentuées en français (non présentes sur les touches du clavier)
CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA
Quality management for translation projects
Wie man den PC im Internet standfest macht (Oktober 2006)
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
A NON-NATIVE USER PERSPECTIVE OF CORPUS-BASED DICTIONARIES
Slightly more advanced SEO for your website
Come lavorare con un PC in ordine - Linee guida per il traduttore freelance
Poétique des moteurs de traduction
Entrer en traduction, immigrer, l’un et l’autre, quelle histoire !
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Help Translate ProZ.com Into Your Language
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Terminología y terminótica en la formación de traductores e intérpretes en Argentina
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Wordfast Beginner's Guide
Team Collaboration
Les traducteurs et la révolution informatique
Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software
Lost (and Found) In Translation
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
A Memory that Never Forgets
Lu Xun: A Case Study in Foreignising Translation
'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach; a comparison of the English original and its French and Spanish translations
An introduction to ProZ.com Connect!
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
Is there a 'critical age' for language acquisition?
Using Web 2.0 technologies for translation business
THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Aesthetics of Saudade
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
Blogging - what's it all about?
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
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
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
The consulting approach to translation - a case study
Accents in Subtitles: Can subtitles portray the difference? Analysing Pedro Almodóvar’s All About my Mother.
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
Whether or not to perform a “short unpaid test”
Project Organization for Scheduling and Reference
Governmentspeak
MemoQ - what does it offer?
Business plans for translators
Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Marine Science 101: SEO, Good Copy, and Translation
Teaching English to Second Language Learners- Top Tips and Keys for Successful Teaching
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
Pendrive for a translator
What our rates really hide
Retour critique sur The Scandals of Translation
Xenoglosofilia di Indonesia - Suatu Kelainan Psikolinguistik?
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
Mengapa Tarif Penerjemahan Buku Cenderung Rendah?
Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah
Klien Adalah Raja?
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
30 September Hari Penerjemah Internasional - Sejarah Singkat
Kasus Tuduhan Salah-Terjemah Buku Menkes vs Undang-undang Penerjemahan
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Likestilling og språkbruk
The Student & Teacher Relationship
Edebiyat ve Çeviri
20 Questions to ask your Translation Company
Language services – the bedrock of knowledge services in today’s knowledge economy
Gestión de la calidad en la industria del lenguaje: cuando se sale a la jungla
An unsolvable problem of specialization
Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
“床前明月光”中“床”的英译问题——语义场理论看许渊冲《静夜思》的英译问题
How do you start your day? Save time with these 3 free programs
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION: SOME PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
A little learning
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (2/2)
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the Classroom of Life- Ten Steps to Start You Off
My Questionnaire on Intercultural Differences
“Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
KUDOS - REALIDADES Y MITOS
Of Translation Jobs and Glossaries
Finding your style
Diary of Sleepwalker
Recensie Van Dale Woordenboeken N E F D
Checklist for Reloading Your PC
Translation Rates and Fees
Translation in Egypt, a Wide Scale Profession
Los siete pecados capitales de los traductores noveles
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
Особенности мотивации и обратной связи при работе с переводчиками-фрилансерами
A New Beginning: Guidelines for Successfully Establishing a Second Career
APRENDER A ENTENDER
你做过语言对比吗？
Certificates, Curriculum Vitaes and other Credentials: Creating an Important Translation Specialty
Memorie di traduzione in versione mini
8 Tips for secure files
Interpretation Intelligence: Diverse Uses of Interpretation Skills
Targets, Productivity and Pricing
Pinyin or characters?
Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre
KISAH PENERJEMAHAN THE FIFTH COLUMN KARYA HEMINGWAY
Permasalahan dalam Penerjemahan Naskah Berbahasa Indonesia
Bilingualism
Romanisation of Arabic words
Креститель или Христитель?
Traduzione di testi scientifici: consigli per le ricerche bibliografiche e le citazioni
Sulitkah Menjadi Penerjemah?
Translating and interpreting from English to Malagasy: obstacles and challenges
Silicon Valley – Кремниевая или Силиконовая долина?
Slang (American)
How to be a successful interpreter?
Truth and Consequences
A Study of Idiomatic Expressions and Cultural Concepts in Literary Translation of Simin Daneshvar's 'Savushun'
Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
Lost in Translation: culchies
Lost in Translation: craic
Teaching English as A Second Language
Professional Translators: an Endangered Species
Statistical Machine Translation and Example-based Machine Translation
MÉTODOS PARA CONSTRUIR GLOSARIOS PARA SER USADOS EN BABYLON Y PROGRAMAS DE TRADUCCIÓN POR COMPUTADORA.
Translating Business Letters into Japanese: Organization, Common Etiquettes, and Helpful Websites
Huazimet ‘konsekutiv’ e ‘simultan’
Arthur Waley Versus Lin Yutang
The ProZ.com saga
Microsoft Accounting 2009 Express as a free translation office management solution.
Pasión por el oficio: situaciones comunicativas en el Foro Social Mundial 2009 y estrategias empleadas para garantizar la comunicación de los participantes. Una visión empresarial.
Automating Your Day at the Computer
Understanding a contract
What would it take for one to be a professional translator?
Target language and the need for being native
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 3a puntata: file .xls e .ppt con Trados Workbench e TagEditor
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 2do episodio : WINALIGN
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 1rst episode: BABYLON BUILDER
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 3rd episode: .xls and .ppt files usign Trados Workbench and TagEditor
Une nouvelle version d’Antidote
Juliane House e il suo modello per valutare la qualità di una traduzione
Teaching English as a second language - beginner level
Juego de custodia
Reine Sprache Versus The Other Name of the Rose
The client doesn’t select you, YOU select your client.
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» Lost in Translation: halfpenny
By Magdalena Rej | Published 06/17/2009 | Miscellaneous | Not yet recommended
A series of articles (32) on Irish slang and Hiberno-English for the Polish community in Ireland, The Evening Herald, The Polski Herald.
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» Business plans for translators
By Nadejda Vega Cespedes | Published 01/17/2010 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
A brief guide that will help you come up with a meaningful and useful business plan
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» Translating Gender from English to Persian
By arezoo soltani | Published 01/12/2010 | Art of Translation and Interpreting | Not yet recommended
Abstract The general aim of translation is to communicate between two languages. In this regard, translators face some problems that are due to the existence of differences in source language (SL) and target language (TL). One of these differences relates to grammar. One of the issues in grammar is gender and the effect of it on a sentence. First, this paper overviews gender among languages next considers gender in Persian and English in specific and last considers the impact of gender on translation process from English to Persian. Key words: Translation, Linguistics, Gender in Grammar
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» Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
By Lucja Biel, Ph.D. | Published 01/10/2010 | Getting Established | Recommendation:
The article gives tips for beginners on how to work successfully with translation agencies and what to do to make a good impression. The following topics are discussed: relationship management, quality assurance, deadlines, payment issues and professional ethics.
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» Traduire des proverbes turcs en français
By traducteur turc | Published 01/7/2010 | Art of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
Traduire des proverbes turcs en français
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» Word crunching
By Gary Smith | Published 01/6/2010 | CAT Tools | Recommendation:
Brute machine translation and machine interpreting in the not-so-far future.
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