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El significado de los dichos populares
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Un secreto bien guardado
ten commandments of a successful author
Corpus Linguistics: Meaning in Context
Escritura de números en textos
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Working for Agencies
Being Freelance translator in Spain
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How to build a professional WEB SITE
How to get organized…
Say Goodbye to the Monday Blues
Keeping your PC clean and safe
Be considered for projects
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
Guide to accept on line payment
How to collect late payments
Managing Business Risk
More Money - Same Workload
Translating into the lingua franca
Keep your child immersed in your native language
Learning a new language - tips and tricks
Trabajar para agencias internacionales
KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO
Blue Board - an overview
Comments on ATA Conference in Toronto
How to improve your listing in the ProZ.com freelancer directory
Hosting: Domain names
Hosting: Using email
Organizing a ProZ.com powwow in your city
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
Instructions on how to enable your browsers to be able to read Devanagri (Hindi).
"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator
Cómo ser un buen intérprete simultáneo
How to avoid undesirable mail (read "spam") in your mail-box
How to config your keyboard in Windows in order to type graphic signs
Teaching English to second language learners
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
How To optimally use Google
How to unite all your Instant Messengers
International Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators HOWTO
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
PDF files: creating, using, converting
La importancia del tiempo para un traductor independiente
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Useful keyboard shortcuts in Word
Useful shortcuts
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
What is Software Localization?
Translating HTML files
How to apply find/replace in Trados
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
SDLX optimization.
Trados beginner's guide
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Finding the Handle on Physics
Diesel Engines: A Brief Overview
The Importance of Knowing Your Local Vernacular
Memory Training in Interpreting
The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Grammatical Conversion in English:Some new trends in lexical evolution
Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
WordFisher for MS Word An alternative to translation memory programs for freelance translators?
Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function
Trados - Is It a Must?
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
From Shoebox to SQL
Awful Translation Fails You Won’t Forget
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
El reto de formar intérpretes en el siglo XXI
The Law of Business Organizations under the New Brazilian Civil Code
Going Broke in Brazil
Translating the Financial Statements of a Brazilian Bank into English What a Brazilian bank must call a van Gogh
The Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Translation Practices in International Advertising
Philosophy, Anthropology, and Linguistics in Translation
The Business of Translating
An Easy Translation Job
Heading for Trouble
Translation Economics 101
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Book Review: Science in Translation
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
Translation: A Market in Crisis?
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Collection
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translation and Typesetting
Translator, Adapter, Screenwriter Translating for the audiovisual
In the Footsteps of Giants Translating Shakespeare for Dubbing
A Historical Overview of a Theoretical Polarization in Theater Translation
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
The Power of Film Translation
What Is the Word for "you" in Portuguese?
Into English
Translation: Back from Siberia
Corpus-based Teaching: The Use of Original and Translated Texts in the training of legal translators
The Importance of Teaching Cohesion in Translation on a Textual Level - A Comparison of test scores before and after teaching
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 2a puntata: WINALIGN
Mother Tongue ---How crucial is it for translation?
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Seven easy (and free) ways to boost your profile traffic
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
La teoría de la traducción como herramienta para cotizarse mejor ante potenciales clientes.
How to feed Translating Brains?
How to find direct clients?
Demonio ex Machina
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
Handling PDF Documents
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
International Business Emails - Do and Don't
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Customizing the Wordfast template
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
How to find direct clients? Skip the middle-man!
¿Ordenador o Computadora?
Translation reviews
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
How to promote yourself
Figurative Expressions
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Prix, service et marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
Doing What With My Preface?
Guida semplificata all’uso di Trados
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traducción y lengua
Naming files in translation projects
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
How to be a real translator
Contracts I: Would you sign this?
Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
The Effects of Differences Among Rhetorical Categorizations in Persian and English on Translation of Persian Modern Poetry: A Case Study of Differences Among Persian and English Rhetorical Categorizations in Sepehri's Poems and their translations
How to organize a translation office - with Translation Office 3000
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Translation and DTP of a PDF File
Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files
To share or not to share
Personal Finance for Freelancers
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
Translating Certificates
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
Translating certificates
ProZ.com site glossary
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for translators and interpreters
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Prospectos de Medicamentos. Responsabilidad del traductor: “... ante la menor duda consulte a su medico.... y/o traductor...”
Applying Translation Office 3000 to your daily professional life
A Beginner's Guide to Translation Errors
Adaptation, Transliteration, Domestication
Georgian Fonts
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Better Game on Translation Business
Promoting your translation web site through the Open Directory
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
A TagEditor Secret
Confessions of a translator heretic
Setting up shop in Jakarta Indonesia (part one)
Spell It Right! (in the context of Hindi)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
Translator ethics and professionalism
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Translating Certificates
How to Translate Manuals for Mechanical Equipments?
Common Mistakes in Translating from Chinese into English
MyGreeklish to Standard Greeklish Translator needed
Algunos interrogantes vigentes en el mundo de la traducción.
Utilisation des codes ASCII pour les lettres accentuées en français (non présentes sur les touches du clavier)
Sixteen (16) cornerstones of ProZ.com
Quality Management for Localization and Translation Projects
Research and Analysis in the Translation of Correspondence
A Price That Is Too High to Pay
Getting started as a Freelancer: one person’s story.
Personalidad del Interprete
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
EXPLAIN or TRANSLATE: a perpetual dilemma for English-language teachers
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Wordfast Beginner's Guide
KudoZ di Proz.com (Pembaca Indonesia)
Translating culture-specific notions
The Freelance Translator's Website: Futile Accessory or Professional Tool?
Les traducteurs et la révolution informatique
El Interprete y Su Par
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
IT'S 9:00 O'CLOCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CLIENTS’ SENSITIVE DATA IS?
'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach; a comparison of the English original and its French and Spanish translations
An introduction to ProZ.com Connect!
Die Crux mit den Probetexten
Ten Commandments of a Freelance Translator
How to generate a multiple language terminology db from a Web glossary
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
Using Web 2.0 technologies for translation business
The invisible client and service provider
Beginner's first steps with Similis
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Challenges and nature of a formal language strategy
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translations: Do Them In-House or Contract Them Out?
Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Blind translators
Teaching English to second language learners
Doctor Pinheiro and Doctor Magagnin in Translation and Poetry
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
Blogging - what's it all about?
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
Nedir bu CAT Araçlarını ilginç kılan?
O Detetive da Tradução
Diferencias entre el lenguaje literario y el científico y sus efectos para el traductor
Developing Departments of English
The Communicational Circuit of Translation
Currency Risk Mitigation 101 for Translators
Translation Company Owners - Do you have a job or a business?
Trados beginner's guide
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
Whether or not to perform a “short unpaid test”
ATA Presentation 2007: Free and Open Source Software for Translators
ATA Presentation 2007: Roll your own: Web-based Translation Portals and Translation Management Systems
Hosting: Using databases
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
5 claves para hacer un presupuesto de localización de juegos
Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator
Hiring right - road to success
The Book to Bind Them All
Pendrive for a translator
What our rates really hide
Internet & Applications for Translators
The issue of non-native English-speakers vs. native English-speakers as teachers of English as a second language
Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah
Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online
John Donne’s metaphysical poetry
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
¿Cómo traducir verbos de movimiento del inglés al español?
Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Las competencias del traductor
Time Management and the Art of Saying No
The Student & Teacher Relationship
Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders
Edebiyat ve Çeviri
Buchrezension Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen - Spanisch
Naturalness in Translation
Lost in translation? Common terms used by translation agencies
Organinzing Your Day
An unsolvable problem of specialization
Mini poradnik dla początkujących tłumaczy
ESTABLISHING YOURSELF AS A TRANSLATOR – WHO DO YOU TRUST IN THIS BUSINESS?
Grow Your LSP Client Base
How to Increase Your Rates
ESTUDIO SOBRE PREGUNTAS KUDOS CERRADAS SIN PUNTAJE
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
Penerjemahan dan Budaya
Reseña: "Espais de frontera. Gènere i traducció", de Pilar Godayol
VIDEO TRANSLATION 101
Hedef dile hâkimiyet ve bir Can Yücel harikası
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (1/2)
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (2/2)
Torre de Blogbel
“Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
Diary of Sleepwalker
Aligning texts with Hunalign
Zachowanie jakości tłumaczenia - proces QA
Recensie Van Dale Woordenboeken N E F D
Translation in Egypt, a Wide Scale Profession
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
A New Beginning: Guidelines for Successfully Establishing a Second Career
APRENDER A ENTENDER
Come crearsi un sito web in poche ore
你做过语言对比吗？
Memorie di traduzione in versione mini
Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners
8 Tips for secure files
Targets, Productivity and Pricing
Pinyin or characters?
From or into?
Translating PDF Files with Free Tools
In praise of cloud storage for backing up data
Bilingualism
Romanisation of Arabic words
Slang (British)
Креститель или Христитель?
Trabajar en casa: un placer
Traduzione di testi scientifici: consigli per le ricerche bibliografiche e le citazioni
Sulitkah Menjadi Penerjemah?
Perfect Punctuation
KETIKA HARUS MEMILIH
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
Silicon Valley – Кремниевая или Силиконовая долина?
TESOL qualifications:- which one to choose?
Truth and Consequences
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
A Study of Idiomatic Expressions and Cultural Concepts in Literary Translation of Simin Daneshvar's 'Savushun'
Translating Dead Souls and Persuasion into Twenty-First Century America
LANGUAGE LAPSES COULD COST YOU MILLIONS*
TRANSLATORS NOW AND THEN - HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THEIR TRADE
Lost in Translation: craic
Lost in Translation: halfpenny
Using An SQL Database From A ProZ-Hosted Web Page
A Recent History and Prospects of Translation
Translating while Travelling
Professional Translators: an Endangered Species
How to Improve Your Visibility on the Internet
Creativity Needed in Translation
What arguments are there to justify rejecting “fluency” in translations and adopting instead a “foreignising” translation strategy? Discuss with reference to the work of Venuti and/or Berman.
Translating Business Letters into Japanese: Organization, Common Etiquettes, and Helpful Websites
Perfect Punctuation
Arthur Waley Versus Lin Yutang
Pasión por el oficio: situaciones comunicativas en el Foro Social Mundial 2009 y estrategias empleadas para garantizar la comunicación de los participantes. Una visión empresarial.
Automating Your Day at the Computer
Playing Machine Translation at the end
Criteria in translation industry - First part
Target language and the need for being native
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
A Sentence from Translator's Life (Customer Memo)
Some brazilian-portuguese slangs
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 3a puntata: file .xls e .ppt con Trados Workbench e TagEditor
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 1rst episode: BABYLON BUILDER
FAQ per il traduttore freelance
Une nouvelle version d’Antidote
A Freelance Translator’s Résumé: What You Should and What you Shouldn’t Include
Protégete del fraude cibernético
About legal translation in a nutshell
Naturalness in translation
Linguaggi specialistici o LSP
İYİ BİR ÇEVİRMEN OLMAK
Word crunching
Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
The Continuing Evolution of Automated Translation Technology: RbMT vs. SMT
Business plans for translators
Buzzwords in Marketing
How to teach a language with skype audio conversations.
TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS
La catena del valore nella traduzione - Welcome to the Translation Party
ING or S: A Matter of Ending
La traduzione dalla lingua araba
El proceso de comunicación desde la perspectiva del dinero, el poder y la mentira. La interpretación en un Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros.
The revolution of machine translation
Teaching English to second language learners
Court interpreting
Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica
5 points fondamentaux pour démarrer en freelance
The loss of mother tongue
Bengali: Past and Present
Internationalization in Localization
Windows, Mac OS o Linux?
Online Language Services Business Management for Security and Growth
Ressource pour InDesign
Bahasa Indonesia and Information Technology
National Language versus Regional Language
Português PT versus Português BR
Cómo hacer de ProZ.com tu mejor herramienta
Come organizzare e gestire il lavoro da casa
How to speed up patents translation with some easy tools
Officialitis
EFL: Cooperative Learning
Extending the use of Glossary in Wordfast Classic
Роль творчої особистості перекладача у передачі стилю автора (на матеріалі англомовних перекладів казки І.Франка “Лис Микита")
Казкова спадщина І.Франка в контексті перекладної літератури США (перекладознавчий аспект).
The Linguist and Social Media: Promotion Through Facebook
«Майстерня синхронного перекладу: the devil is in the details»
Switching off at the end of the day
¿Cómo se formó el Colegio de Traductores Públicos e Intérpretes de la Provincia de Buenos Aires? Lo que es y lo que brinda a sus miembros.
La méthode GTD ou comment s'organiser efficacement
Read or weep
Translation or 'The Art of Goofing Up'
Standard English & English Varieties
Running Idiom Desktop Workbench on Windows 8
The Role of Experiential Knowledge in Translation
Η διερμηνεία των νοηματικών γλωσσών
Tom, Dick and Harry.
Las bases de estandarización en el cobro del trabajo de traducción
Passing the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) examinations from the UK Institute of Linguists - part 2
The year so far - a light-hearted look at a busy semester
May 24th - celebrating Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavonic Literature
Marketing for Translators: how to create a compelling domain name or tagline to boost your business?
Using Xbench as a low cost TM solution
Interpreting in the Magistrates' Courts: introduction to the Criminal Justice System
On the Literary Translator’s Invisibility
Getting Personal with Languages
ANÁLISIS DE UNA OBRA LITERARIA Y DEL PAPEL DE LA LITERATURA FRANCÓFONA NO FRANCESA:
LAS LENGUAS Y DIALECTOS DE ALEMANIA
Analysis of Gregory Rabassa’s translation of Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez
La libertà del traduttore
Starters’ Set of Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Part I
Translation techniques used in the translation of english phrasal verbs into farsi: the case of lord of the flies and its 3 farsi translations
LA TRADUCTION, UN PIS-ALLER DE LA LECTURE ?
Open-source Software, Free Software and Creative Commons Licences
Software open source, software libero e licenze Creative Commons
Neologismi, prestiti e parole straniere
L'eredità latina
L'eredità germanica
Il linguaggio dei writer
English Keys and Turkish Heads
Zapatero a tu zapato
On Translation and Translatability
ProZ.com profile: Creating a standout "About me"
Peter Eisenman: The Architecture of Chaos
Business Plans for the Translator
Using the ProZ.com Blue Board
Business plan for translators: Why do they need one? How to use it?
La naturalidad de la traducción. Dificultades específicas en el par Ruso – Español
The perfect e-mail
L’organisation du marché de la traduction en quelques mots – Mondialisation, externalisation et intermédiaires
La lingua inglese: cenni storici
Literary Translation- Knowing All About it!
Things You Must Know About Turkish Translation
As a freelance translator, do you have any rights regarding Copyright?
Understanding Compensation Issues related to PEMT
DIVERSITY IN ETHICAL CODES FOR THE PROFESSIONS OF INTERPRETER AND TRANSLATOR
El rol de la traducción en las estrategias de expansión internacional
Joomla- Getting Online Without HTML (Part 1:Overview)
Tradurre il linguaggio giornalistico della boxe
Fundamentos de traducción a través del análisis de la traducción de Orlando, de Virginia Woolf (Parte II): modulación, equivalencia y adaptación.
ProZ.com series on Risk Management: Scammers who steal translations
Going Freelance: are you ready?
Ces arnaqueurs qui volent vos traductions
Три категории зла и два основных правила. Original:Three categories of evil and two basic rules
Enseigner l’Anglais à Ceux qui Apprennent une Deuxième Langue
Forbidden Inferences
Structure and meaning of a Vietnamese name
ProZ.com membership works: a success story
TRANSLATION TOPICS: PAYMENTS
The English, The Portuguese, and The Latin
TRANSLATION TOPICS: PAYMENT TOOLS
Collaborative translation with OmegaT
What is a PO and why is it important in freelance translation?
The clash of identical word usage between Romanian and Bulgarian with reference to the translation difficulties
Essential Notes
God Complex
Trade-fair interpreting - preparation, professionalism and posture
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
Traduttori, CAT Tool e utilizzo dei sistemi Mac
Análisis literario del libro Cecilia Valdés
Case Study: Contrastive discussion of the structural, lexical and grammatical properties of the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) genre in British English and Russian, including cross-cultural differences
THE QUESTION OF DISTANCE ARISING FROM THE USE OF POLITE PRONOUNS FORMS IN ROMANIAN WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR USAGE IN LEGAL INTERVIEWS AND OFFICIAL WEBSITES
La representación del personaje de Tristana en la novela de Galdós y en la película de Luis Buñuel
Relaciones de poder en La casa de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca
Using ProZ.com translation teams
Cantonese: A Practical Overview
'About me' with style – using CSS to enrich your presentation on ProZ.com with typography
O czym rozmawiasz z klientem w windzie?
Toward defining translation in relation to its transparency
10 steps to follow when you apply for a translation job
VUELVA CUANDO TENGA LA NOVELA ACABADA
Godność zawodu tłumacza. Co jest nie tak? Nieco dłuższy rzut oka na kilka trendów w branży.
On the need for mediation in the translation industry
O potrzebie mediacji w branży tłumaczeniowej
The only way / English
Konkurencja... o tłumacza?
The Friendliness of False Friends (Part 1)
The Friendliness of False Friends (Part 2)
Costa del Sol - Vereidigte Übersetzer und Dolmetscher sind Mangelware
Competing for the translator. Follow-up: How I choose jobs
Cultural and Language Boundaries: Once Upon a time…in Pamplona – Colombia
Riding the linguistic wave in Brazil - from reluctant schoolboy to happy linguist!
LA OCASIÓN LA PINTAN CALVA
Come tradurre materiale storico e artistico
An MA in Translation Studies: To have or not to have?
Calculating your rate as a freelance translator
Court Interpreting
Fee, Fie, Manxome Foe, Fum ...
CAT Tools – To Choose or Not To Choose
“Metalesku blesku” or the Hell of Cultural Expressions
Localisms
Negotiating with Agencies for Better Rates
Translation without the internet
Decálogo para traductores para empezar a utilizar las redes sociales con éxito
Boost your freelance translation business with a marketing plan
Les acteurs du marché de la traduction en France
Réalité de la traduction automatique en 2014
Prise de notes pour les interprétations consécutives longues: emploi de méthodes heuristiques (mind mapping)
Els estrats de la llengua catalana: substrats, adstrats i superstrats
Deep Concentration vs. Responsiveness
The fixer - 2014 FIFA World Cup
Die Problematik der Übersetzung des Geschäftsberichtes Deutsch/Russisch. Umsetzung von IFRS und US-GAAP bei der Aufstellung des Jahresabschlusses in Russland
How to translate for a publishing house: An Italian psychologist's experience
Welcome to the world of new words: the same old wine in new bottle!
The Relevance of MT Post-editing Today and Tomorrow
Medical Translation
Um Pouquinho de Pesquisa, Please!
Marketing em Países Socialistas
Understanding Contract Clauses
المتلازمات اللفظية .. رؤية مترجم
Machine Translation of Poetry
Riflessione sulle caratteristiche richieste a un buon traduttore
Translating New Realities: Animal Ethics and Veganism
How to Work for LSPs (Language Service Providers)
Il genere grammaticale
Big tenders for small jobs are not realistic
How to Teach English As a Second Language
The biggest mistake translators make about their own industry
Interpreter working in Court
Book Review-How to Manage Your Translation Projects
Challenges of in court interepretation
Goodbye Barcelona, goodbye traductor
Translating medical eponyms
Arabic-English Translation of “Scream” Idiomatic Expressions
Handling time off as a freelancer or sole trader
NAIVE TRANSLATION EQUIVALENT
Translation challenges for beginners – 30 sentences to practise your skills from English into French
Sobre impagos y cómo protegernos
Peculiarità della traduzione giuridica
Strumenti di traduzione e costi di traduzione
Russian Translation Quality Pitfalls: Tips for Clients and QA Teams
Translating Literature and Poetry: Useful Tips
Human Factor In Translation Agencies
Template and Selection: Technique or Crime?
Marcia R. Pinheiro, and Eirlys J. Chessa in Template and Selection
Accuracy in Interpreting
Наскільки можливий переклад?
La presa d'appunti in consecutiva
Master Lankenau x Dr. Pinheiro: Talking about Interpreting
STRUMENTI INFORMATICI CHE FACILITANO LA VITA DEL TRADUTTORE MODERNO
Ruoli di mediazione detenuti dal software
Sottotitoli: perché ti fanno guadagnare
Translation Quality Assurance Tools
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The basics of written business plans and how freelance translators can benefit from them.


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