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Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs

FInd&Replace Hints

How Not To Join Sentences in TM Tools

How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]

Proofreading with DéjàVu

Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies

Technical terms - translate or not translate?

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

La traducción de las Metáforas

ten commandments of a successful author

Escritura de números en textos

How to find direct clients

Punctuation tips

Avoid the "Brazil Risk"

Chinese Translation Industry Analysis - Part 1

Creating and using a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express

Being Freelance translator in Spain

How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office

How to build a professional WEB SITE

Keeping your PC clean and safe

Be considered for projects

Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away

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

More Money - Same Workload

How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing

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

Blue Board - an overview

How to improve your listing in the freelancer directory

Hosting: Domain names

Hosting: Using email

Hosting: Using FTP

How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.

"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:

How Valuable Time Can Be To A Freelance Translator And How To Organise Your Workday And Life

How to avoid undesirable mail (read "spam") in your mail-box

How to improve WinXP performance

How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]

How to unite all your Instant Messengers

Linux for Translators HOWTO

Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs

La importancia del tiempo para un traductor independiente

Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas

Windows shortcuts; listed in a systematic way

Word: Secrets and shortcuts

Arabic Web Sites Localization Process

How to translate Mac PageMaker file with Trados on PC

Translating HTML files

Another TRADOS help (Spanish)

How to apply find/replace in Trados

How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)

Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux

Demystifying Software Globalization

Diesel Engines: A Brief Overview

A Journey into Chinese-English Environmental Translation

What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited

The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law

Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet

Neologisms in International Development

Handling Greek and Latin Terms in Spanish Medical Translation

Review of Atrils 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

Trados - Is It a Must?

Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L

Working from audio recordings

Some Advice on Preparing for Simultaneous Interpretation of Current Political Themes

His Excellency and His Interpreter

El reto de formar intérpretes en el siglo XXI

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

Language and Choice for Learning/Translating English

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

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

Translation Practices in International Advertising

The Business of Translating

Sorry Guys, You Can't Win

Marketing Your Translation Services: Test TranslationsTo Do or Not to Do?

The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators

An Easy Translation Job

Book Review: Science in Translation

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

What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can

It's a Small World

Test Translations - an Update

Source Language versus Target Language Bias

Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services

The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach

The Power of Film Translation

Coping with You

Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees

Translation: Back from Siberia

The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation

Knowing Before Learning: Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class

A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up

Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES

How to find direct clients?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website

How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories

Demonio ex Machina

More on Getting Direct Clients

Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea

International Business Emails - Do and Don't

Working with Simultaneous Interpreters

EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO

Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm

Customizing the Wordfast template

EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS

Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'

Translation's Lost Art

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

PROPUESTA DE REVISIÓN COMO ESTRATEGIA DE MARKETING

How to promote yourself

Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese

Figurative Expressions

Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word

My golden rules for quality assurance

Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English

Desktop Search Programs

Creciente avance del teletrabajo

Indonesian Translators Perspective: So what, gitu loh?

Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese

Traduciendo errores originales

Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?

Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art

Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX

Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian

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

Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files

Hints for a good teaching

Personal Finance for Freelancers

ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary

Translating Certificates

Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate

Mentoring new translators

Translating certificates

ProZ.com site glossary

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

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

Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters

Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory

Translating certificates

The Use of Metaphors

Language Politics

Translating Certificates

Switching word order in MS Word

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

CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA

Quality Management for Localization and Translation Projects

Wie man den PC im Internet standfest macht (Oktober 2006)

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)

Personalidad del Interprete

The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation

Come lavorare con un PC in ordine - Linee guida per il traduttore freelance

Poétique des moteurs de traduction

Critique of translation in Indonesia

Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia

Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software

El Interprete y Su Par

Lost (and Found) In Translation

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?

An introduction to ProZ.com Connect!

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

Is there a 'critical age' for language acquisition?

THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED

Importance of localization for India

Interpreting into a foreign language

Why teach English as a foreign language? What's in it for me?

Translation and Text Understanding

Blind translators

Aesthetics of Saudade

Blogging - what's it all about?

How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator

Court in Translation - Common areas of Court Interpreting and Screen Translation

Professionalism as a key to success

Translation Company Owners - Do you have a job or a business?

Trados beginner's guide

The consulting approach to translation - a case study

PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用

Consciousness in Translation - Part Four

A Project Naming Convention & Workflow suggestion

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

Governmentspeak

Hosting: Using databases

Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X

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

Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities

Teaching English to Second Language Learners- Top Tips and Keys for Successful Teaching

Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.

Entering the World of Freelance Translation

How to localize webhelp files

Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator

Hiring right - road to success

What our rates really hide

Retour critique sur The Scandals of Translation

Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?

O Paladino de Luis Vaz de Camoes

Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah

Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online

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

Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)

Likestilling og språkbruk

Las competencias del traductor

Peeking what’s inside the software localization & internationalization (Indonesia local context)

Time Management and the Art of Saying No

Edebiyat ve Çeviri

¿Deben los traductores de países en desarrollo aceptar tarifas más bajas cuando trabajan para el mercado internacional?

Lost in translation? Common terms used by translation agencies

Gestión de la calidad en la industria del lenguaje: cuando se sale a la jungla

Mini poradnik dla początkujących tłumaczy

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

How do you start your day? Save time with these 3 free programs

Grow Your LSP Client Base

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 (2/2)

Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the Classroom of Life- Ten Steps to Start You Off

My Questionnaire on Intercultural Differences

Of Translation Jobs and Glossaries

Finding your style

Freelancers and other useless facts

¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?

Aligning texts with Hunalign

Checklist for Reloading Your PC

Translation Rates and Fees

How to conquer new clients

Особенности мотивации и обратной связи при работе с переводчиками-фрилансерами

Hitting the right notes

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

Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners

Pinyin or characters?

Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre

Translating PDF Files with Free Tools

Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)

In praise of cloud storage for backing up data

Romanisation of Arabic words

Креститель или Христитель?

Trabajar en casa: un placer

Traduzione di testi scientifici: consigli per le ricerche bibliografiche e le citazioni

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

TESOL qualifications:- which one to choose?

How to be a successful interpreter?

Truth and Consequences

Knowing time zones is part of time management

THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS

Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America

LANGUAGE LAPSES COULD COST YOU MILLIONS*

TRANSLATORS NOW AND THEN - HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THEIR TRADE

This could spell trouble

Lost in Translation: craic

Lost in Translation: bona fide

The Importance of Punctuation

Using An SQL Database From A ProZ-Hosted Web Page

A Recent History and Prospects of Translation

Professional Translators: an Endangered Species

Statistical Machine Translation and Example-based Machine Translation

¿Enseñar idiomas o sonidos?

Warum eine Firewall und welche für Vista?

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.

Perfect Punctuation

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

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

HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 1rst episode: BABYLON BUILDER

HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 2nd episode: WINALIGN

FAQ per il traduttore freelance

Juliane House e il suo modello per valutare la qualità di una traduzione

Teaching English as a second language - beginner level

Using Open Source Translation Tools Arabic Language

The client doesn’t select you, YOU select your client.

Перевод немецких неологизмов с помощью поисковых систем

Purismo e traduzione: le ragioni della sopravvivenza del mestiere

Naturalness in translation

İYİ BİR ÇEVİRMEN OLMAK

Word crunching

Traduire des proverbes turcs en français

Business plans for translators

TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS

Why pay more or beware of cheap translation services

Echivalenţa în traducere

La traduzione dalla lingua araba

Between English and Indonesian

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

TO BE OR NOT TO BE MACHINE TRANSLATING

Translating from 'Marketese English'

Court interpreting

Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica

5 points fondamentaux pour démarrer en freelance

Why should we re-examine Translator education and training at university level in Morocco ?

The loss of mother tongue

The Translator: From prestige to invisibility, across centuries and cultures

Spreading of Translation

Relevance, honesty and fun: a light-hearted view of the keys to teaching English.

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?

Ressource pour InDesign

Finesse in Serbian localizations and advertisement texts

Português PT versus Português BR, 2º acto

Translation Services Topics: Pros and Cons of TM Software in a Working Relationship

Be friend with earlier standardized, popular, and slang languages

Officialitus

Una guida alla scelta del regime fiscale in Italia

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).

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

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 1

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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