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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Is Proz Dead Or Alive?
“Proz is dead.” I bet you’ve heard that one before. This is what people say in 2015. This is what they’ve said in 2010. And
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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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Is It Important To Choose Professional Document Translation Service?
It takes a lot of effort to write a technical document as it has to be factual and needs the right citation and references. It
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Translator’s Guide to Blogging
Free guide to help professional translators begin and maintain a blog. There are many good reasons for professional translators to begin and maintain a
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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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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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So, You Want To Be A Translator?
There are two main things I want to do on this page: first, I want to say a few things to people considering entering the
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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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5 façons de collaborer avec un traducteur
Découvrez 5 trucs faciles à appliquer pour faciliter le processus de traduction pour vous et votre traducteur! Toute entreprise gagne à entretenir de bonnes relations
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Some user-friendly concordance ideas
Although corpora are now widely used in putting together ELT Dictionaries, and increasingly used in writing ELT materials, it is still rare, I think, for
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Translation Scams: Tips for Avoiding Them and Protecting Your Identity
This article will discuss a few of the common schemes targeting both buyers / end clients and translators / language services providers, including how they
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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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Traducteurs : To CRM ou not to CRM ?
Tout d’abord, c’est quoi un CRM ? En anglais CRM signifie « Customer Relationship Management ». Il s’agit d’un logiciel qui vous permet de gérer
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Facts You Need to Know about Language Translation
Language translation essentially involves the process of translating text or words from one language into another. With the integration of global business operations and web
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Entre qualité et baisse des dépenses
Article sur l’importance de faire appel à des traducteurs professionnels. Quelques chiffres intéressants sont également indiqués à la fin de l’article (basés sur le “Rapport de
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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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14 must use tools for translators
Translators have become faster due to technology. Still, productivity can be further increased if the following tips and tools for translators are used. Useful
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What we know exactly about Certified translations before immigration
People are confused regarding the requirement of certified translation. The necessity of Certified & notarized translation needs awareness. There are many things that differentiate a
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Les CGV : bouée de sauvetage du traducteur
“Trust but verify”, proverbe de prédilection de Ronald Reagan pendant la guerre froide, s’applique tout particulièrement au monde de l’entreprise. Lorsque vous travaillez avec un
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