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Cómo traducir al español títulos de periódicos ingleses
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English language: punctuation in relative clauses for translators
FInd&Replace Hints
Get more out of Google
How Not To Join Sentences in TM Tools
How to collect stories with PageMaker for Mac (and PC too) without Trados Story Collector
How to find a translation for the name of a plant, animal etc in Google
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Word for Translators
Subtitling - basic principles
Technical terms - translate or not translate?
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
Video subtitling
How to Read Culturally Diverse Authors: Introduction: Alejo Carpentier
ten commandments of a successful author
How to find direct clients
How to give your Dutch customers a 40% discount
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
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
Guide to accept on line payment
How to collect late payments
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
KudoZ - deciding when to squash a question
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Blue Board - an overview
Hosting: Domain names
Hosting: Using FTP
Organizing a ProZ.com powwow in your city
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:
How Not To Catch a Virus at Home
How to improve WinXP performance
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Using Yahoo Briefcase to quickly share files and images
Word: Secrets and shortcuts
What is Software Localization?
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 a CAD drawing with a CAT tool
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
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
Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Does Juliet's Rose, by Any Other Name, Smell as Sweet?
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
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
His Excellency and His Interpreter
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
La traduzione giuridica
The Law of Business Organizations under the New Brazilian Civil Code
Going Broke in Brazil
Language and Choice for Learning/Translating English
Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation
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
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
In Pursuit of the Cheapest Translation Cost Is translation still a service or has it become a commodity?
The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators
An Easy Translation Job
Translation Economics 101
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Two New Portuguese Dictionaries
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
Translation: A Market in Crisis?
Collection
A Historical Overview of a Theoretical Polarization in Theater Translation
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
Coping with You
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
Translation: Back from Siberia
Corpus-based Teaching: The Use of Original and Translated Texts in the training of legal translators
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
Mother Tongue ---How crucial is it for translation?
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
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?
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
Handling PDF Documents
International Business Emails - Do and Don't
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Understand Your Profile Page and Use it for Self-Promotion
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
Translation's Lost Art
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
Translation reviews
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
PROPUESTA DE REVISIÓN COMO ESTRATEGIA DE MARKETING
Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Prix, service et marketing
Prices, Service and Marketing
My golden rules for quality assurance
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Precio, servicio y marketing
Desktop Search Programs
The difference between editing and proofreading
Traducción y lengua
How to be a real translator
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
Contracts I: Would you sign this?
Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Found in translation – meet Alice, Bob and Carol
Mic ghid de citire/scriere în Unicode pe ProZ.com
Personal Finance for Freelancers
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Mentoring new translators
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
La localización de software
Translating certificates
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
ProZ.com site glossary
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
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
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
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
Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
Translating certificates
Confessions of a translator heretic
Spell It Right! (in the context of Hindi)
Translator ethics and professionalism
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Translating Certificates
How to Translate Manuals for Mechanical Equipments?
Switching word order in MS Word
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)
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.
9 reasons for the most simple, economical, fast and effective way of marketing by freelance translators
NAME OF TRANSLATOR IN PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS OR OTHER)
Personalidad del Interprete
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
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
EXPLAIN or TRANSLATE: a perpetual dilemma for English-language teachers
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Migration from SDL Termbase to Trados Multiterm
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
A Memory that Never Forgets
Lu Xun: A Case Study in Foreignising Translation
Die Crux mit den Probetexten
Ten Commandments of a Freelance Translator
How to generate a multiple language terminology db from a Web glossary
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
Is there a 'critical age' for language acquisition?
The invisible client and service provider
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
Translations: Do Them In-House or Contract Them Out?
Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Translation and Text Understanding
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Blind translators
Teaching English to second language learners
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
Blogging - what's it all about?
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
Developing Departments of English
Professionalism as a key to success
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
Trados beginner's guide
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
A Project Naming Convention & Workflow suggestion
ATA Presentation 2007: Free and Open Source Software for Translators
Project Organization for Scheduling and Reference
Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Business Plans for the Translator
Business plans for translators
Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
Marine Science 101: SEO, Good Copy, and Translation
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Brazilian vs. European (aka Continental or Iberian) Portuguese explained for non-Portuguese speakers
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
A Tradução Audiovisual
Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator
The Book to Bind Them All
Pendrive for a translator
What our rates really hide
Retour critique sur The Scandals of Translation
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
John Donne’s metaphysical poetry
El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
30 September Hari Penerjemah Internasional - Sejarah Singkat
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
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
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
Mini poradnik dla początkujących tłumaczy
How do you start your day? Save time with these 3 free programs
Grow Your LSP Client Base
How to Increase Your Rates
EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION: SOME PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
Penerjemahan dan Budaya
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)
Torre de Blogbel
My Questionnaire on Intercultural Differences
“Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?
Recensie Van Dale Woordenboeken N E F D
Checklist for Reloading Your PC
Translation Rates and Fees
How to conquer new clients
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
Hitting the right notes
Suggestion for teaching translation in Iran's Universities
Come tradurre il testo contenuto nelle immagini
Come crearsi un sito web in poche ore
Certificates, Curriculum Vitae and other Credentials: Creating an Important Translation Specialty
Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners
Interpretation Intelligence: Diverse Uses of Interpretation Skills
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
Bilingualism
Slang (British)
Test Translations - Tips for Success
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
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
TESOL qualifications:- which one to choose?
Slang (American)
Knowing time zones is part of time management
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
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: craic
Lost in Translation: halfpenny
Lost in Translation: bona fide
Understanding Polish English Pronunciation: Tips for Interpreters and EFL Teachers
Teaching English as A Second Language
The Importance of Punctuation
Professional Translators: an Endangered Species
Statistical Machine Translation and Example-based Machine Translation
¿Enseñar idiomas o sonidos?
English Affix Acquisition
Warum eine Firewall und welche für Vista?
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
Shot Down in No Man's Language
Perfect Punctuation
Huazimet ‘konsekutiv’ e ‘simultan’
Arthur Waley Versus Lin Yutang
The ProZ.com saga
What would it take for one to be a professional translator?
Target language and the need for being native
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Some brazilian-portuguese slangs
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 3a puntata: file .xls e .ppt con Trados Workbench e TagEditor
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 3rd episode: .xls and .ppt files usign Trados Workbench and TagEditor
FAQ per il traduttore freelance
Best Practice per il traduttore freelance
Teaching English as a second language - beginner level
Reine Sprache Versus The Other Name of the Rose
Teaching English as a second language
Перевод немецких неологизмов с помощью поисковых систем
El papel del traductor en una sociedad diglósica
What a good interpreter at court should know
Naturalness in translation
Linguaggi specialistici o LSP
Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
Abu Said's Mystical Poetry
The Continuing Evolution of Automated Translation Technology: RbMT vs. SMT
Business plans for translators
Buzzwords in Marketing
Why pay more or beware of cheap translation services
La catena del valore nella traduzione - Welcome to the Translation Party
Cheap Translators Around the World
La traduzione dalla lingua araba
A translator's CV - A translator's best friend
Court interpreting
Simple Technique to Save your Time and Energy while Translating
Why should we re-examine Translator education and training at university level in Morocco ?
A stylistic analysis of poetry translation; Case study of Akbar Jamshidi’s Poem “Smile” Based on Khomeijani Farahani’s Evaluation Framework
Online Language Services Business Management for Security and Growth
Finesse in Serbian localizations and advertisement texts
Bahasa Indonesia and Information Technology
Português PT versus Português BR, 2º acto
Be friend with earlier standardized, popular, and slang languages
The Ethics of Proofreading
EFL: Cooperative Learning
Localizzazione e dintorni
The Linguist and Social Media: Promotion through Twitter
Converting translation memories into spreadsheets and vice versa
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Les réseaux de traducteurs, une alternative aux agences de traduction traditionnelles qui a le vent en poupe.
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Project Management in Translation
Translation or 'The Art of Goofing Up'
Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 2
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» Business plan for translators: Why do they need one? How to use it?
By Moisés Jomarrón de la Cerda | Published 02/6/2012 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
Business plan is a sine qua non condition for starting a business. In some countries it is necessary for any kind of financial support. This article gives some ideas about how to write this document and suggests a basic structure adapted to the translation market. Key words: Business plan for translators, Marketing and Financial plans, price policy.
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» How to be a Good Translator
By Rose Newell | Published 06/8/2011 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
First part of a set on how to be a good, successful and happy translator. In this part, I will tell you what makes a good translator and how you can improve.
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» The Ethics of Proofreading
By Rose Newell | Published 06/8/2011 | Business of Translation and Interpreting , Business Issues | Recommendation:
A discussion of the problem of the overzealous proofreader and why this often backfires, whereas honesty and fairness pays. This is summarised in a set of ethical guidelines for proofreaders.
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» Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 2
By Mike (de Oliveira) Brady | Published 05/22/2011 | Getting Established , Art of Translation and Interpreting , Business of Translation and Interpreting , Translator Education | Recommendation:
I sat the Diploma in Translation examinations in January 2011 and passed on my first attempt. In this article I explain how I prepared for the examinations and my exam technique. In the first article I provided information about how to know if you are ready to take the examinations.
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» Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 1
By Mike (de Oliveira) Brady | Published 05/22/2011 | Getting Established , Art of Translation and Interpreting , Business of Translation and Interpreting , Translator Education | Recommendation:
I sat the Diploma in Translation examinations in January 2011 and passed on my first attempt. In this article I provide information about how to know if you are ready to take the examinations. In the second article, I explain how I prepared for the examinations and my exam technique.
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