Faire un test de traduction pour un client direct ? C’est à vous de voir, mais la Marmite a son avis sur la question !
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Keeping client statistics: how organised are you?
If the last statistics you ever came across involved the Poisson distribution at school, you may well be forgiven for running a mile from keeping
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Top Secrets of Effective Proofreading
The ultimate checklist to proofread and edit your work. These days, there is a lot of fuss and debate around Post-Editing (and Machine Translation) that
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El profesor que «mató» al alumno de Traducción – Algo más que traducir
Hace poco me llegó un correo de una persona que, por desgracia, me relataba algo que ya me habían contado otros tiempo atrás. Resulta que el
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Détection et classification de néologismes : une expérience didactique
Le cursus des étudiants en traduction et interprétation insiste sur la maîtrise de la langue maternelle, laquelle constitue, en bonne déontologie, la langue cible des
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Recommended free courses and other useful information
Useful information Corpus linguistics guru, Mura Nava, recently shared useful links to research he has done and other useful information, such as alternatives to AntConc.
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Creative translation marketing
Clara Giampietro writes about different ways of marketing our translation services and grabbing our potential client’s attention. Don’t you want to stand out and
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Professional-Quality Translation at Light Speed: Why Voice Recognition May Well be the Most Disruptive Translation Technology You’ve Never Heard of.
I’m sort of amazed translators working into English today still type out their translations on keyboards. Hunched over for endless hours at a time, day
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Social Media Tips for Localization on Top Apps
Social media is becoming one of the most important tools and topics for international marketers. Social media, as a marketing tool for business, has been rapidly
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Instructions for QA Checks with Apsic Xbench
Quality Assurance is one of the most important aspects in today’s translation and localization industry. In Technografia we have always used QA tools for all our
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Using Cloud Solutions for Translation: Yes or No?
We read about the benefits of using the cloud for work—using cloud applications and storage, for example. What we don’t see are warnings of the
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Teaching translation project management
Teaching Translation Project Management (TPM) is really thrilling. One of the aspects I most enjoy is that the majority of my students are highly interested
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What it takes to become a translator for game localization
If you have a passion for gaming and you want to become a professional game translator who’ll be working on different, yet challenging projects, you’ll have
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The JSON files…
The JSON files… not really related to Jason Voorhees of course, but for some users who have received these file types for translation the problem
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Semantic prosody and specialised translation, or how a lexicogrammaticaltheory of language can help with specialised translation
Corpus linguistics has invaded translation studies and practice over the last fifteen years, allowing researchers to analyse the language of translation or to use corpora as
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Pricing Strategies for Translators and Interpreters
Pricing is a controversial and complex subject, and one that all linguists need to think about very seriously. In order to make a good living
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Customized Machine Translation Mis-Use as a Cause of Shadow (Unpaid) Translation Work
In “Emerging Technologies As A Cause of Shadow Work”, I have reviewed how emerging technologies have a tendency to create shadow (unpaid) work. In this
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MA Translation and Interpreting Courses
The aim of this page is to list MA translation courses available in Europe and link them to posts (most are guest posts on this blog)
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Just About Every Day Brings an Offer of Translation Work for Me that I Ignore
Adventures from three consecutive days in the life of Mad Patent Translator. Just about every day brings an e-mail from a translation agency that either
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Goodbye to all that
Breaking up isn’t hard when your “partner” is a cheapskate I received an e-mail last week from a long-standing and once quite important agency client.
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The importance of terminology in translation studies
Technical sciences such as translation and translation studies or traductology are nurtured by and co-exist with terminology. Nowadays, there is a lot of specialized
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¿Por qué debe trabajar con un Traductor Profesional?
Mucho me han preguntado qué razones hay para contratar a un Traductor Profesional si ellos mismos (las personas que preguntan) hablan, leen y escriben en
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Financial Glossaries and Resources – Part II
In the first post of the series Financial Glossaries and Resources, I collected glossaries and resources in English. In this second post, I would like
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Determining your rates and fees
If you are a freelance translator, putting yourself in a position to do high quality work on an ongoing basis requires that you approach the
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Purchase Order Checklist
Towards the end of September I blogged about my ideal purchase order and asked readers for your opinion. I was worried that the form might
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Lost In Translation – The Most Common Localization Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
If MoGi Group had a dollar, euro, pound, ruble, peso, rand, rupee, krona, yen or bitcoin for every time somebody asked us ‘What’s the key
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Online video tutorials & training | lynda.com
Learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. Interesting course for localizers, testers, Localization Project Managers: “Localization for Developers” (Dennis
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