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More Money - Same Workload
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Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
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Windows shortcuts; listed in a systematic way
Word: Secrets and shortcuts
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Translating HTML files
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
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Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
SDLX optimization.
Demystifying Software Globalization
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
Navigating through Treacherous Waters: The Translation of Geographical Names
Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation
The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
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
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An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
Trados - Is It a Must?
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
Some Advice on Preparing for Simultaneous Interpretation of Current Political Themes
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
Going Broke 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
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?
An Easy Translation Job
Translation Economics 101
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
Test Translations - an Update
Collection
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
In the Footsteps of Giants Translating Shakespeare for Dubbing
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
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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
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El Pretérito Perfecto ¿se cayó de las Carabelas de Colón?
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
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
International Business Emails - Do and Don't
Working with Simultaneous Interpreters
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
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Prices, Service and Marketing
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
Precio, servicio y marketing
Desktop Search Programs
The difference between editing and proofreading
Traducción y lengua
Naming files in translation projects
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
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?
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Personal Finance for Freelancers
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
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Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
La localización de software
Translating certificates
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ProZ.com site glossary
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Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
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A Beginner's Guide to Translation Errors
Georgian Fonts
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Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Errors and Error Correction in Language Teaching
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
Translating certificates
Confessions of a translator heretic
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Language Politics
Translating Certificates
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Switching word order in MS Word
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Algunos interrogantes vigentes en el mundo de la traducción.
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
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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
Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software
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
Challenges and nature of a formal language strategy
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
Blogging - what's it all about?
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
Developing Departments of English
San Jerónimo y la traducción
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
Trados beginner's guide
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
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
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
A Tradução Audiovisual
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?
The issue of non-native English-speakers vs. native English-speakers as teachers of English as a second language
Mengapa Tarif Penerjemahan Buku Cenderung Rendah?
Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online
John Donne’s metaphysical poetry
El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Likestilling og språkbruk
Las competencias del traductor
Time Management and the Art of Saying No
The Student & Teacher Relationship
Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders
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
TIPS ON TEACHING: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Brooks Adams
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EQUIVALENCE IN TRANSLATION: SOME PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES
Penerjemahan dan Budaya
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.”
Google - zaawansowane wyszukiwanie treści dla tłumaczy
Finding your style
¿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
Los siete pecados capitales de los traductores noveles
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
Suggestion for teaching translation in Iran's Universities
Come tradurre il testo contenuto nelle immagini
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?
Tersesat Di Rimba Kata (A Translator Biography in Indonesian)
Bilingualism
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
KETIKA HARUS MEMILIH
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
Knowing time zones is part of time management
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
TRANSLATORS NOW AND THEN - HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THEIR TRADE
This could spell trouble
Lost in Translation: craic
Lost in Translation: halfpenny
Understanding Polish English Pronunciation: Tips for Interpreters and EFL Teachers
Teaching English as A Second Language
The Importance of Punctuation
A Recent History and Prospects of Translation
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?
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
Automating Your Day at the Computer
Understanding a contract
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
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Turning Thorns into Roses: Managing Challenging Clients
Teaching English as a second language - beginner level
Teaching English as a second language
Перевод немецких неологизмов с помощью поисковых систем
El papel del traductor en una sociedad diglósica
Linguaggi specialistici o LSP
Word crunching
Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
Abu Said's Mystical Poetry
Buzzwords in Marketing
Why pay more or beware of cheap translation services
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Cheap Translators Around the World
La traduzione dalla lingua araba
A translator's CV - A translator's best friend
Court interpreting
Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica
Simple Technique to Save your Time and Energy while Translating
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Ressource pour InDesign
Finesse in Serbian localizations and advertisement texts
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Albanian (1) Arabic (4)
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French (6) German (1)
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» May 24th - celebrating Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavonic Literature
By Tanya Toneva | Published 06/15/2011 | Language Specific , Miscellaneous | Recommendation:
An exciting journey back to the very roots of the Bulgarian language. This article was originally written and posted on our company blog on May 24th - in honour of one of the most important Bulgarian holidays. http://www.careltranslations.com/2011/05/may-24th-celebrating-bulgarian-education-and-culture-and-slavonic-literature/
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» Особенности употребления личных местоимений в бенгальском языке
By Anna Konar | Published 12/31/2010 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
Личных местоимений в бенгальском языке больше, чем в русском, что обуславливает сложность выбора того или иного местоимения для употребления. На примере бенгальских личных местоимений единственного числа объясняются особенности их употребления в типовых ситуациях.
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» Bengali: Past and Present
By Quamrul Islam | Published 08/28/2010 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
This article gives a brief introduction to the journey of Bengali, a South Asian language.
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» This could spell trouble
By Luciano Monteiro | Published 06/15/2009 | Language Specific , Portuguese , Technology , CAT Tools , Software and the Internet | Recommendation:
A new orthography is gradually taking hold all over the Portuguese-speaking world. Translators need to know what lies beneath the reform, says Luciano Monteiro. Luciano O Monteiro MITI is a writer and translator working from English and Spanish into Brazilian Portuguese. A former journalist, his main specialisation is football, though he also has a strong knowledge of world affairs, finance, marketing, tourism, IT and the media.
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» FOOTBALL IS COMING HOME TO DIE-HARD TRANSLATORS
By Luciano Monteiro | Published 06/15/2009 | Language Specific , Art/Literary Translation , Translation Techniques , Portuguese , Specialties , Art of Translation and Interpreting , Other Specialties | Recommendation:
Football has become a lucrative booming industry over the years, and translations in the field have to be up to the standard.
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