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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Word for Translators
43+ Million New Users Are Waiting For Arabic SEO
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
Subtitling - basic principles
Technical terms - translate or not translate?
El significado de los dichos populares
Trying to Publish
Convalidaciones y Homologaciones en España de Títulos Extranjeros
Corpus Linguistics: Meaning in Context
Escritura de números en textos
How to find direct clients
More useful shortcuts for Word
Punctuation tips
Avoid the "Brazil Risk"
Creating and using a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
Hidden ways to promote your website
Is Subcontractor a virtue, or a vice?
Working for Agencies
Being Freelance translator in Spain
Building a Freelance Translation Office
How to build a professional WEB SITE
How to get organized…
Be considered for projects
How to Become a Freelance Translator in France
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
To win jobs online--specialize!
More Money - Same Workload
How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing
The use of cases in Russian last names.
KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO
Blue Board - an overview
Comments on ATA Conference in Toronto
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
Instructions on how to enable your browsers to be able to read Devanagri (Hindi).
"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:
How to avoid undesirable mail (read "spam") in your mail-box
How to improve WinXP performance
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
How To optimally use Google
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
How to unite all your Instant Messengers
International Keyboard Layout
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
SEARCH ENGINES FEATURES AND SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
Useful shortcuts
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
How to translate Mac PageMaker file with Trados on PC
Translating HTML files
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
Trados beginner's guide
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
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
The Language of Inflation
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Neologisms in International Development
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
Trados - Is It a Must?
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
From Shoebox to SQL
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
The Invisible in Translation: The Role of Text Structure
Philosophy, Anthropology, and Linguistics in Translation
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
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
Two New Portuguese Dictionaries
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
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
Some Ways of Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Russian
Test Translations - an Update
Source Language versus Target Language Bias
Translation and Typesetting
In the Footsteps of Giants Translating Shakespeare for Dubbing
A Historical Overview of a Theoretical Polarization in Theater Translation
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
The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation
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
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 2a puntada
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 3a puntada
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Seven easy (and free) ways to boost your profile traffic
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
La teoría de la traducción como herramienta para cotizarse mejor ante potenciales clientes.
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
El Pretérito Perfecto ¿se cayó de las Carabelas de Colón?
Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
How to feed Translating Brains?
How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories
Demonio ex Machina
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
La Profesión de Interprete
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator and how to organise your workday and life
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Understand Your Profile Page and Use it for Self-Promotion
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
Translation's Lost Art
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
¿Ordenador o Computadora?
Translation reviews
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
How to promote yourself
Figurative Expressions
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Prix, service et marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
Tips for Writing Better Medical Texts in English
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Traducción y lengua
Traduciendo errores originales
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
Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
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Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Found in translation – meet Alice, Bob and Carol
Hints for a good teaching
To share or not to share
La localización de software
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
Consideraciones en torno al lenguaje especializado
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for translators and interpreters
How to translate changing documents
FROM TEXT TO THE SPIRIT WITHIN - ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF MIORITA AS A TARGET TEXT
Make the first impression count!
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Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
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Translating Certificates
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The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA
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Wie man den PC im Internet standfest macht (Oktober 2006)
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NAME OF TRANSLATOR IN PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS OR OTHER)
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» Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
By Kevin Lossner | Published 09/18/2008 | Business of Translation and Interpreting , Financial Issues | Recommendation:
An approach is presented for determining equivalent rates for different methods of translation pricing. Actual data from the translators past and present jobs is used to calculate the relationships between these methods. The "statistical safety margin" of this approach is also briefly explained.
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» An unsolvable problem of specialization
By Arnaud HERVE | Published 09/13/2008 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
Is it possible to remain in your area of expertise and yet keep the business running?
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» Lost in translation? Common terms used by translation agencies
By neilpayne | Published 08/6/2008 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
This article lists the most common terms used by translation agencies
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» 20 Questions to ask your Translation Company
By neilpayne | Published 08/6/2008 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
This article lists the 20 questions worth asking your Translation Company
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» Hiring right - road to success
By hzhang | Published 03/26/2008 | Business of Translation and Interpreting | Recommendation:
Running a translation business is not easy. As small as the industry may be, we as business owners face a full set of business challenges: personnel management, sales and marketing, client relations, and the list goes on. Everyday, we go into work hoping to improve the business, to make it more successful. Sometimes we wonder, what is the killer factor? What makes some companies more successful than others?
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