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Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs
FInd&Replace Hints
Get more out of Google
Proofreading with DéjàVu
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
Subtitling - basic principles
Technical terms - translate or not translate?
How to Read Culturally Diverse Authors: Introduction: Alejo Carpentier
Un secreto bien guardado
ten commandments of a successful author
Escritura de números en textos
How to find direct clients
More useful shortcuts for Word
Punctuation tips
Avoid the "Brazil Risk"
Chinese Translation Industry Analysis - Part 1
Creating and using a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
Hidden ways to promote your website
How to give your Dutch customers a 40% discount
Working for Agencies
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
How to get organized…
Keeping your PC clean and safe
Be considered for projects
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
¿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 limit the risk of not getting paid
Managing Business Risk
IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/1
Keep your child immersed in your native language
How to be a Good Translator
Earn KudoZ points effectively!
KudoZ - deciding when to squash a question
Hosting: Using email
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How Valuable Time Can Be To A Freelance Translator And How To Organise Your Workday And Life
Cómo ser un buen intérprete simultáneo
Teaching English to second language learners
International Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators HOWTO
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
Useful shortcuts
Windows shortcuts; listed in a systematic way
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
How to apply find/replace in Trados
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Demystifying Software Globalization
A Journey into Chinese-English Environmental Translation
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation
The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
The Language of Inflation
Neologisms in International Development
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Handling Greek and Latin Terms in Spanish Medical Translation
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
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
Trados - Is It a Must?
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
From Shoebox to SQL
His Excellency and His Interpreter
El reto de formar intérpretes en el siglo XXI
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
Going Broke in Brazil
The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
The Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
A Little Conversation about Tone and Translation
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
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
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
Translation Practices in International Advertising
The Business of Translating
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
An Easy Translation Job
Heading for Trouble
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
Don Kiraly's A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education
Some Ways of Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Russian
It's a Small World
Test Translations - an Update
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Source Language versus Target Language Bias
Translation and Typesetting
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
The Power of Film Translation
Into English
Coping with You
Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
Translation: Back from Siberia
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
A Discussion on Features of Financial English Vocabulary and its Translation into Chinese
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 2a puntata: WINALIGN
Mother Tongue ---How crucial is it for translation?
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up
La teoría de la traducción como herramienta para cotizarse mejor ante potenciales clientes.
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES
How to find direct clients?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website
Demonio ex Machina
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
How to find direct clients!?
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
International Business Emails - Do and Don't
Translator's Knowledgebase Requirements
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Customizing the Wordfast template
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Figurative Expressions
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Prices, Service and Marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Desktop Search Programs
Guida semplificata all’uso di Trados
Traducción y lengua
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
How to be a real translator
Contracts I: Would you sign this?
How to organize a translation office - with Translation Office 3000
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Found in translation – meet Alice, Bob and Carol
Hints for a good teaching
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
Translating Certificates
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Mentoring new translators
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
La localización de software
Translating certificates
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?
FROM TEXT TO THE SPIRIT WITHIN - ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF MIORITA AS A TARGET TEXT
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Prospectos de Medicamentos. Responsabilidad del traductor: “... ante la menor duda consulte a su medico.... y/o traductor...”
A Beginner's Guide to Translation Errors
Making Your Resume Stand-Out: A Lesson in Professionalism
Choosing the correct font for your job (in the context of Hindi)
Georgian Fonts
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
Translating certificates
Confessions of a translator heretic
Setting up shop in Jakarta Indonesia (part one)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
The Use of Metaphors
The Ethics of Non-Translation
How to Find Direct Clients?
Language Politics
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
Guidelines to keep your PC tidy - For freelance translators
Common Mistakes in Translating from Chinese into English
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
ProZ.com overview and action plan (#1 of 8): Sourcing (ie. jobs / directory)
Utilisation des codes ASCII pour les lettres accentuées en français (non présentes sur les touches du clavier)
Sixteen (16) cornerstones of ProZ.com
Win Win Communication
Quality Management for Localization and Translation Projects
Research and Analysis in the Translation of Correspondence
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)
Personalidad del Interprete
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
Organizing a ProZ.com in-person event
Poétique des moteurs de traduction
Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
Migration from SDL Termbase to Trados Multiterm
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Wordfast Beginner's Guide
You get what you pay for
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
Hiring a Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? The decision is yours.
El Interprete y Su Par
Lost (and Found) In Translation
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
A Memory that Never Forgets
Lu Xun: A Case Study in Foreignising 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
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
ПЕРЕВОД НАЗВАНИЙ КОСМЕТИЧЕСКИХ И АНАЛОГИЧНЫХ ИНГРЕДИЕНТОВ
The invisible client and service provider
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Teaching English to second language learners
Nine golden hints to make Wikipedia work for you
Aesthetics of Saudade
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
Diferencias entre el lenguaje literario y el científico y sus efectos para el traductor
Miscue Analysis in Reading a Second Language
San Jerónimo y la traducción
Trados beginner's guide
The consulting approach to translation - a case study
ATA Presentation 2007: Roll your own: Web-based Translation Portals and Translation Management Systems
Project Organization for Scheduling and Reference
Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Hosting: Using databases
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
Business plans for translators
Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Domestication vs. Foreignization in English-Arabic Translation
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Marine Science 101: SEO, Good Copy, and Translation
Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
Brazilian vs. European (aka Continental or Iberian) Portuguese explained for non-Portuguese speakers
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator
The Book to Bind Them All
Pendrive for a translator
What our rates really hide
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
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
Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah
Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online
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?
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
Time Management and the Art of Saying No
Edebiyat ve Çeviri
Buchrezension Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen - Spanisch
Lost in translation? Common terms used by translation agencies
Organinzing Your Day
Language services – the bedrock of knowledge services in today’s knowledge economy
Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
Mini poradnik dla początkujących tłumaczy
10 tips to raise interest from ESL university students
ESTUDIO SOBRE PREGUNTAS KUDOS CERRADAS SIN PUNTAJE
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
Penerjemahan dan Budaya
A little learning
Reseña: "Espais de frontera. Gènere i traducció", de Pilar Godayol
VIDEO TRANSLATION 101
Hedef dile hâkimiyet ve bir Can Yücel harikası
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (1/2)
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (2/2)
Of Translation Jobs and Glossaries
Finding your style
Diary of Sleepwalker
Freelancers and other useless facts
¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?
Aligning texts with Hunalign
Recensie Van Dale Woordenboeken N E F D
Translation Rates and Fees
How to conquer new clients
Hitting the right notes
APRENDER A ENTENDER
Come crearsi un sito web in poche ore
你做过语言对比吗？
Certificates, Curriculum Vitae and other Credentials: Creating an Important Translation Specialty
Translation of Published Works
Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners
Interpretation Intelligence: Diverse Uses of Interpretation Skills
Targets, Productivity and Pricing
Pinyin or characters?
Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre
Translating PDF Files with Free Tools
Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)
Bilingualism
Креститель или Христитель?
Trabajar en casa: un placer
Traduzione di testi scientifici: consigli per le ricerche bibliografiche e le citazioni
Perfect Punctuation
Translating and interpreting from English to Malagasy: obstacles and challenges
Sebagian Permasalahan Penerjemahan dari Bahasa Arab ke Indonesia: Perlunya Menyeragamkan Kembali Alih Aksara Arab
KETIKA HARUS MEMILIH
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
Slang (American)
How to be a successful interpreter?
Truth and Consequences
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
Lost in Translation: knacker
Lost in Translation: craic
Lost in Translation: bona fide
Teaching English as A Second Language
The Importance of Punctuation
A Recent History and Prospects of Translation
Translating while Travelling
Professional Translators: an Endangered Species
Statistical Machine Translation and Example-based Machine Translation
¿Enseñar idiomas o sonidos?
How to Improve Your Visibility on the Internet
Creativity Needed in Translation
MÉTODOS PARA CONSTRUIR GLOSARIOS PARA SER USADOS EN BABYLON Y PROGRAMAS DE TRADUCCIÓN POR COMPUTADORA.
Perfect Punctuation
Huazimet ‘konsekutiv’ e ‘simultan’
Arthur Waley Versus Lin Yutang
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.
Understanding a contract
What would it take for one to be a professional translator?
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 1er episodio: BABYLON BUILDER
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 2do episodio : WINALIGN
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 1rst episode: BABYLON BUILDER
Teaching English as a second language - beginner level
Juego de custodia
Teaching English as a second language
The client doesn’t select you, YOU select your client.
Перевод немецких неологизмов с помощью поисковых систем
Protégete del fraude cibernético
Naturalness in translation
Linguaggi specialistici o LSP
İYİ BİR ÇEVİRMEN OLMAK
Abu Said's Mystical Poetry
The Continuing Evolution of Automated Translation Technology: RbMT vs. SMT
Business plans for translators
How to teach a language with skype audio conversations.
TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS
La traduzione dalla lingua araba
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.
The revolution of machine translation
A translator's CV - A translator's best friend
Teaching English to second language learners
Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica
Why should we re-examine Translator education and training at university level in Morocco ?
The loss of mother tongue
DIFFERENCE OF USAGE SIMPLIFIED BETWEEN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INDICATIVE FORMS IN FRENCH
Spreading of Translation
Bengali: Past and Present
Serious Errors in User Manuals
A stylistic analysis of poetry translation; Case study of Akbar Jamshidi’s Poem “Smile” Based on Khomeijani Farahani’s Evaluation Framework
Windows, Mac OS o Linux?
Finesse in Serbian localizations and advertisement texts
Translation Services Topics: Pros and Cons of TM Software in a Working Relationship
Come organizzare e gestire il lavoro da casa
Be friend with earlier standardized, popular, and slang languages
Officialitus
EFL: Cooperative Learning
Converting translation memories into spreadsheets and vice versa
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).
Les réseaux de traducteurs, une alternative aux agences de traduction traditionnelles qui a le vent en poupe.
The Linguist and Social Media: Promotion Through Facebook
How to recognize a translation job scam
«Майстерня синхронного перекладу: the devil is in the details»
Project Management in Translation
Moving a step forward: From an Association to a Professional Body
أفضل الممارسات للمترجمين الأذكياء
Η διερμηνεία των νοηματικών γλωσσών
Conversion of decimal and thousand separators: English to Portuguese and vice-versa
Tom, Dick and Harry.
What your Project Manager is (probably) thinking
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 2
Conversion between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
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
HOW TO EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY WITH THE HELP OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS
Interpreting in the Magistrates' Courts: introduction to the Criminal Justice System
Getting Personal with Languages
ANÁLISIS DE UNA OBRA LITERARIA Y DEL PAPEL DE LA LITERATURA FRANCÓFONA NO FRANCESA:
LAS LENGUAS Y DIALECTOS DE ALEMANIA
How to create a bilingual glossary of terms in Excel?
Translation techniques used in the translation of english phrasal verbs into farsi: the case of lord of the flies and its 3 farsi translations
LA TRADUCTION, UN PIS-ALLER DE LA LECTURE ?
L'eredità germanica
English Keys and Turkish Heads
On Translation and Translatability
How to convert string text for translation
İngilizce Çevirilerde Dikkat Edilmesi Gereken Hususlar
Loss and Gain in Humor Translation; A case study of The Ethics of the Aristocrats
Using the ProZ.com Blue Board record
5 business mistakes that beginning freelance translators make and how to avoid them

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