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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Subtitling in game localisation: a descriptive study
This article describes the different aspects of audiovisual translation in the game industry. In less than four decades the video game industry has become
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Software L10n Quality Assurance from the Tester’s Perspective
(…) The presentation will give a very brief overview over the localization process for software and mobile apps before covering the quality assurance process in
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An Inside Look at Video Game Localization (Part I) – Blog
This is part one of a two-part post written by Thaís Castanheira, a Gengo Senior Translator in the English to Brazilian Portuguese language pair. When people ask what
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Comics in Translation Studies. An Overview and Suggestions for Research
Comics enjoy a prominent space in the translation world. In Italy as well as in other countries the majority of comics titles are translations (see
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How to avoid ‘Homeland’-style translation tricksters
© The Financial Times Limited 2015. A message goes out regularly from the Financial Times picture desk: is there a Finnish or Greek or some-other-language
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11 Myths about Translation and Translators
There’s a lot of myths about translation and translators. Sometimes they seem to contradict each other. In this post I’m going to debunk some of
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Translation: an impossible art?
When you learn French at school, two of the first words you learn are tu and vous. In English both have the same translation –
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Financial Translation is a Balancing Act
Financial translation is aharmony balancing act, among style, content, format, and deadlines. Translators must have solid skills — not just subject-matter knowledge and writing skills
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Hanne Arts: 10 Essentials for Proofreading Your Own Work
As writers, we all know the importance of proofreading. Without it, a manuscript looks sloppy and unfinished and can even be so difficult or frustrating
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Translating Invented Terms
In some cases, translators will come across a word straight from the mind of a text’s author. When there’s no possible way for invented words
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Translation, localization, internationalization, globalization.
What does “localization” mean? Localization (also known as l10n) is the process of translating and adapting a website or software to a specific international language.
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Evaluación, corrección, revisión y edición
El concepto de evaluación es polisémico. El DRAE señala que evaluar consiste en ‘señalar el valor de algo’, ‘estimar, apreciar, calcular el valor de algo’
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The Case for Non-Native Translators?
While the idea of a translator working out of their native tongue is the stuff of nightmares for many established professionals, I recently took part
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When the foreign language speaker and the interpreter don’t use the same terminology
Dear colleagues: Although this is not new, it seems to me that technological advances and globalization have generated a more hybrid sui-generis type of terminology
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Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Shows a Little Localization Goes a Long Way
Making sure that the true spirit of a film transgresses international boundaries – from emotionally- significant moments to comedic one-liners – is more than a
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Premières armes en révision : des doutes justifiés, des inquiétudes à apaiser
Réviser, c’est endosser des devoirs d’examen et d’amélioration du travail d’autrui, si bien que certains traducteurs néophytes appréhendent ce virage. Réussiront-ils à déceler les erreurs
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All About Video Game Localization
How video game localization adapts gaming to new cultures and languages. The video game industry is among the most globalized entertainment sectors, with gaming
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Traducciones y control de calidad
«Las traducciones se abandonan, no se terminan», me comentaba un compañero hace unos días. En efecto, por muy satisfechos que estemos de una traducción, es
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The fine line between faithfulness and cacozelia
Karoshi, Japanese for “to die from overwork”, has been the star at many translation forums this week. Antonio Carrillo, manager at http://www.tradux.es/, opened the debate
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Translating Adult Content
An unusual profitable niche market for translators to specialize in. You may have never thought about it, but adult films, websites, magazines, literature, games, comics
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Komen traduir l’inovassion ortografik : étude de ca
Cet article propose une réflexion sur la façon dont le dialecte visuel, tel que défini originellement par Krapp (1926), a été et peut être traduit
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Interpreting in the digital era: How to prosper rather than survive in the new reality
(video) Barry Slaughter Olsen, conference interpreter, general manager of Multilingual at ZipDX, co-president of InterpAmerica shares insights on new technologies in interpreting and how you
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Why does subtitling takes so long?
The turnaround might not always sounds reasonable to our client for short videos, so let’s take a ride through the Subtitling process to better understand.
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Why multiple screens can help you translate faster
How and why multiple screens can help you work and translate faster. Translation is not anymore about working on one file, with nothing else, but
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The role of localization testing
We are certainly moving fast toward a world where the digital content becomes the first option for users or the place where software companies develop
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Paving the way
There are two basic truths which apply to the profession of translation: we learn from our mistakes; and we learn from other people. If we
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