One of the most heated debates within the realm of freelancing is whether you should charge hourly or per project (flat fee). While both sides
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Want to be a better translator? Improve your own language.
When planning our CPD we often take into consideration core activities such as improving our marketing skills, learning how to use new CAT tools, how
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Translation Rates & Prices – How Much Does a Translation Cost?
Whether you are a company or individual, if you need to translate something from one language into another the first thing you want to know
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The human role in a machine-translated world
The rise of machine translation has left human translators with an uncertain future. But the translation industry cannot depend on machines alone and won’t be
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At Last! Low-Cost Fares for Clients (especially publishers) Who Want to Save Money on Translations!
After fielding yet another “proposal” to translate a book for a fee I found offensive, I thought it might be time to start offering a
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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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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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The 3 Biggest Reasons Why Job Auction Sites Are Not Great
In my humble opinion, through personal experience, I feel auction sites simply are ineffective, unfair and downright unethical. Here are my top three biggest reasons
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Mesure de la qualité en TA – Traductologie de corpus et qualité : étude de cas
L’objectif de cet article est de proposer une réflexion sur le rôle que pourraient jouer les études menées dans le cadre des corpus-based translation studies
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7 reasons to opt for a professional translator rather than an internal linguist
When faced with the option of paying a professional translator to take care of a translation for your company or having a colleague with language
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18 reasons why an agency might stop working with you
The general advice regarding clients is that you should be actively seeking new ones all the time because you never know what’s around the corner.
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Selecting a Translation Services Provider – 3 Tips
Selecting the right translation services provider is not always easy. Read our top 3 tips list to get you going in no time.
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6 benefits of enterprise terminology management for language translation
From increased messaging consistency to faster go-to-market times, enterprise terminology management brings big benefits to your language translation program. Few things are as important in
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Is there still value in quality?
I envy people who can state without blinking that delivering quality is the key to success. I envy their faith. Faith in their own capabilities,
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Medical translations that make us [sic!]
In this post I list four major factors responsible for bad medical translations and analyse examples of substandard medical and pharmaceutical translations.
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3 models of language quality assurance
Language quality assurance gives you demonstrable proof that your translation quality measures up in each market. Here are 3 models for delivery.
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Tips for setting your translation rates, for professional translators.
One of the first difficulties that a professional translator has to face is deciding their rates. Personally, I started researching what the current market rates
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Is your software “translation worthy”? Crowdsourcing may give you the answer
You’ve developed a great program and now you want to localize it for foreign markets. But you don’t want to waste money translating it into
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5 signs of poorly localised software
Localisation will be beneficial for your company and customers only if it’s of top quality and has no flaws. If the localised version contains mistakes,
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Credit notes for translation projects
2-part article. Translation companies, translators or any other participant in a translation project might find that they have to issue credit notes. Most of the
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Help! Everyone’s at a conference except me (or how to still get a dose of CPD)
Don’t fret. While it might feel like that sometimes judging by your social media feeds, it’s far from the truth. And however tempting it might
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The pros and cons of Machine Translation
“Today, more content is created in 48 hours than all of the content created between the beginning of time and 2003,” said former Google CEO
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My Golden Rules For Quality Assurance In Translation
In the highly competitive global translation market quality may be the main differentiator – a factor that makes the difference between success and failure. Quality
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Machine translation forces major Japanese publishing company into bankruptcy
We said it before here — In machines translation you get what you pay for! Takeda Random House Japan Co., Ltd has been forced into
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Séries TV: le blues des pros du sous-titre
A l’heure où Kim Dotcom la plateforme Mega fait débat, les sous-titreurs de séries s’invitent dans la controverse. Le zèle des traducteurs bénévoles qui adaptent
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Light and Full MT Post-Editing Explained
Considering the intense pressure to maximize corporate localization budget utility and speed products to foreign markets, it is no surprise that Machine Translation (MT) often
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