One is unlikely to make many friends among translators talking about machine translation (MT) – unless the conversation is restricted to deriding its stupid mistakes
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The One Crucial Thing You’re Forgetting When Handling Mistakes
We are all people, and mistakes happen. Sometimes we, as translators or interpreters, are the ones at fault. Perhaps we didn’t catch a typo or
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11 Things a Translation Is NOT
There seem to be some common misconceptions about translations. Using a list of 11 points, I will clarify what translations are not, so that people
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10 worst mistakes I made as a freelancer
Thoughts of a freelance translator about translation, language teaching and freelancing. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss
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9 Mistakes Freelance Translators Should Avoid
TTC wetranslate supports the translation service industry by explaining 9 mistakes freelance translators should avoid Want to become a literary translator? You’re not alone. We
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Post-Processing of Machine Translations, the New Money Maker of “the Translation Industry”
Translators are supposed to be, almost by definition, intelligent and educated people. After all, they must know at least two languages and many of them
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Getting personal with your customers: to share or not to share?
In today’s world of omnipresent social media, many succumb to the urge (myself included!) to share their lives and experiences, trials and tribulations, milestones and
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The Insider’s Guide to Project Management in Translation Agencies
You can’t please all of the people all of the time, or so the saying goes. But as any translation project manager will tell you,
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Six reasons to centralize translation
When exporting into a new country or market, it’s really tempting to rely on in-country distributors to translate your communications. In fact, I’ve sat in
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