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Cómo traducir al español títulos de periódicos ingleses
Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs
How Not To Join Sentences in TM Tools
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How to convey the connotative meaning of a word into another language
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
Video subtitling
How to translate culture-bound elements (in Italian)
Un secreto bien guardado
La traducción de las Metáforas
ten commandments of a successful author
Escritura de números en textos
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
Building a Freelance Translation Office
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
How to build a professional WEB SITE
How to prepare freelance-specific CV
Be considered for projects
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
Guide to accept on line payment
How to collect late payments
An easy way to understand the proper use of the Tenses.
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
KudoZ - deciding when to squash a question
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.
How to insert a hit counter in your profile page
"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 config your keyboard in Windows in order to type graphic signs
How to improve WinXP performance
How To optimally use Google
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
International Keyboard Layout
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
La importancia del tiempo para un traductor independiente
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
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)
Basic Wordfast tutorial in Bulgarian/ Начално ръководство за Wordfast на български език
How to apply find/replace in Trados
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
Demystifying Software Globalization
A Journey into Chinese-English Environmental Translation
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 a Brazilian Balance Sheet
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?
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
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
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 Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
Cultural Implications for translation
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
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
Translation Practices in International Advertising
The Invisible in Translation: The Role of Text Structure
The Business of Translating
Sorry Guys, You Can't Win
Marketing Your Translation Services: Test Translations—To Do or Not to Do?
An Easy Translation Job
Translation Economics 101
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Book Review: Science in Translation
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
It's a Small World
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
A Historical Overview of a Theoretical Polarization in Theater Translation
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees
Translation: Back from Siberia
Knowing Before Learning: Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class
Translation and Interpretation Work for the LNG Tangguh Project in Papua, Indonesia
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 2a puntata: WINALIGN
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?)
Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website
How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
How to find direct clients!?
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
Understand Your Profile Page and Use it for Self-Promotion
Effective ProZ Quotes
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
Customizing the Wordfast template
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
Figurative Expressions
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Prix, service et marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
What is T4K? And why should you care?
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Desktop Search Programs
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
How to be a real translator
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Found in translation – meet Alice, Bob and Carol
Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files
To share or not to share
Personal Finance for Freelancers
Translating Certificates
Mentoring new translators
¿Quién cuida al proveedor de servicios?
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
ProZ.com site glossary
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Make the first impression count!
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
Choosing the correct font for your job (in the context of Hindi)
Georgian Fonts
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
Translating certificates
Confessions of a translator heretic
Spell It Right! (in the context of Hindi)
The Use of Metaphors
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Translating idioms and buzzwords
Language Politics
Translating Certificates
Closing old Kudoz questions
Guidelines to keep your PC tidy - For freelance translators
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
9 reasons for the most simple, economical, fast and effective way of marketing by freelance translators
NAME OF TRANSLATOR IN PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS OR OTHER)
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
Personalidad del Interprete
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 !
EXPLAIN or TRANSLATE: a perpetual dilemma for English-language teachers
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Migration from SDL Termbase to Trados Multiterm
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
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
ПЕРЕВОД НАЗВАНИЙ КОСМЕТИЧЕСКИХ И АНАЛОГИЧНЫХ ИНГРЕДИЕНТОВ
Is there a 'critical age' for language acquisition?
THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translation and Text Understanding
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Blind translators
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
Court in Translation - Common areas of Court Interpreting and Screen Translation
Professionalism as a key to success
Trados beginner's guide
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
ATA Presentation 2007: Roll your own: Web-based Translation Portals and Translation Management Systems
Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Governmentspeak
Hosting: Using databases
Business Plans for the Translator
MemoQ - what does it offer?
Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
A Tradução Audiovisual
Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator
Hiring right - road to success
Pendrive for a translator
Internet & Applications for Translators
Retour critique sur The Scandals of Translation
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
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
Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah
Klien Adalah Raja?
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
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
Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders
Buchrezension Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen - Spanisch
¿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
An unsolvable problem of specialization
Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
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
How to Increase Your Rates
ESTUDIO SOBRE PREGUNTAS KUDOS CERRADAS SIN PUNTAJE
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
Reseña: "Espais de frontera. Gènere i traducció", de Pilar Godayol
VIDEO TRANSLATION 101
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
“Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
Google - zaawansowane wyszukiwanie treści dla tłumaczy
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
Los siete pecados capitales de los traductores noveles
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？
Translation of Published Works
Interpretation Intelligence: Diverse Uses of Interpretation Skills
Pinyin or characters?
From or into?
Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre
Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)
In praise of cloud storage for backing up data
Traduzione di testi scientifici: consigli per le ricerche bibliografiche e le citazioni
Translating and interpreting from English to Malagasy: obstacles and challenges
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
Silicon Valley – Кремниевая или Силиконовая долина?
Slang (American)
How to be a successful interpreter?
Truth and Consequences
Knowing time zones is part of time management
Using IMAP for emails provides backup and ease of access
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
This could spell trouble
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?
Creativity Needed in Translation
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.
Translating Business Letters into Japanese: Organization, Common Etiquettes, and Helpful Websites
Perfect Punctuation
Huazimet ‘konsekutiv’ e ‘simultan’
Arthur Waley Versus Lin Yutang
Microsoft Accounting 2009 Express as a free translation office management solution.
Automating Your Day at the Computer
What would it take for one to be a professional translator?
Target language and the need for being native
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 1er episodio: BABYLON BUILDER
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 2do episodio : WINALIGN
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
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
Purismo e traduzione: le ragioni della sopravvivenza del mestiere
About legal translation in a nutshell
Naturalness in translation
Traduire des proverbes turcs en français
TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS
Why pay more or beware of cheap translation services
Echivalenţa în traducere
La catena del valore nella traduzione - Welcome to the Translation Party
Between English and Indonesian
With Naturalness, Naturally
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
Translation and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
5 points fondamentaux pour démarrer en freelance
Simple Technique to Save your Time and Energy while Translating
The loss of mother tongue
The Translator: From prestige to invisibility, across centuries and cultures
DIFFERENCE OF USAGE SIMPLIFIED BETWEEN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INDICATIVE FORMS IN FRENCH
Spreading of Translation
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
Localizzazione e dintorni
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
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
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» Using Open Source Translation Tools Arabic Language
By Hamed Al-Suhli | Published 11/1/2009 | Arabic | Recommendation:
this is a brief guide of how to use Anaphraseus and OmegaT translation memory tools for Arabic translators, and resolve RTL problems
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