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El componente enciclopédico de la traducción
Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs
How Not To Join Sentences in TM Tools
How to find a translation for the name of a plant, animal etc in Google
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Word for Translators
Proofreading with DéjàVu
43+ Million New Users Are Waiting For Arabic SEO
Optimizing your website content for search engines
How to Read Culturally Diverse Authors: Introduction: Alejo Carpentier
Trying to Publish
Escritura de números en textos
How to find direct clients
More useful shortcuts for Word
Spanish punctuation
Hidden ways to promote your website
How to give your Dutch customers a 40% discount
Working for Agencies
Being Freelance translator in Spain
Building a Freelance Translation Office
How to Avoid Isolation in Your Home Office
How to continue foreign language immersion when you are no longer immersed in it!
How to get organized…
Be considered for projects
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
How to Become a Freelance Translator in France
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
To win jobs online--specialize!
Guide to accept on line payment
Managing Business Risk
How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing
Keep your child immersed in your native language
The use of cases in Russian last names.
Blue Board - an overview
How to improve your listing in the freelancer directory
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.
How to insert a hit counter in your profile page
Instructions on how to enable your browsers to be able to read Devanagri (Hindi).
"Downgrading" from Wordfast to Trados:
CARATTERISTICHE DEI MOTORI DI RICERCA E TECNICHE DI RICERCA
Cómo ser un buen intérprete simultáneo
How to config your keyboard in Windows in order to type graphic signs
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
International Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
PDF files: creating, using, converting
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Useful shortcuts
Word: Secrets and shortcuts
Translating HTML files
How to translate a CAD drawing with a CAT tool
SDLX optimization.
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Diesel Engines: A Brief Overview
What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited
The Language of Inflation
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
WordFisher for MS Word An alternative to translation memory programs for freelance translators?
An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
From Shoebox to SQL
Working from audio recordings
The Law of Business Organizations under the New Brazilian Civil Code
The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese
Going Broke in Brazil
The Language of the ICMS Tax in Brazil
The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
Cultural Implications for translation
Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation
The Invisible in Translation: The Role of Text Structure
Philosophy, Anthropology, and Linguistics in Translation
An Easy Translation Job
Heading for Trouble
Translation Economics 101
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Two New Portuguese Dictionaries
Book Review: Science in Translation
New English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionaries: Some Problems Related to Legal, Financial and Insurance Terminology
Don Kiraly's A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education
Some Ways of Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Russian
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
Test Translations - an Update
Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Collection
Source Language versus Target Language Bias
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translation and Typesetting
A Historical Overview of a Theoretical Polarization in Theater Translation
The Power of Film Translation
Coping with You
Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
Corpus-based Teaching: The Use of Original and Translated Texts in the training of legal translators
The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation
The Importance of Teaching Cohesion in Translation on a Textual Level - A Comparison of test scores before and after teaching
Knowing Before Learning: Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class
A Discussion on Features of Financial English Vocabulary and its Translation into Chinese
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 2a puntada
Guida semplificata all'uso di Trados
Mother Tongue ---How crucial is it for translation?
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Batch Conversion of DejaVu Translation Memories into Trados txt format
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
El Pretérito Perfecto ¿se cayó de las Carabelas de Colón?
Avivando colegas - Traductores argentinos: CAPACITADOS Y BARATOS: IRRESISTIBLES
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator and how to organise your workday and life
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Understand Your Profile Page and Use it for Self-Promotion
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
COMO CONSEGUIR CLIENTES DIRECTOS
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Prices, Service and Marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Editing Segments and Concordance Search in various CAT tools
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
Hints for a good teaching
Personal Finance for Freelancers
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
Consideraciones en torno al lenguaje especializado
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for translators and interpreters
Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for outsourcers and translation companies
Make the first impression count!
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Apuntes básicos para evitar algunos problemas innecesarios al traducir
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Errors and Error Correction in Language Teaching
Spell It Right! (in the context of Hindi)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
Translating idioms and buzzwords
Switching word order in MS Word
Closing old Kudoz questions
Common Mistakes in Translating from Chinese into English
MyGreeklish to Standard Greeklish Translator needed
How to save neck, back, wrists
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Quality management for translation projects
Wie man den PC im Internet standfest macht (Oktober 2006)
A Price That Is Too High to Pay
NAME OF TRANSLATOR IN PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS OR OTHER)
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
A NON-NATIVE USER PERSPECTIVE OF CORPUS-BASED DICTIONARIES
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE - 2a puntata: WINALIGN
Entrer en traduction, immigrer, l’un et l’autre, quelle histoire !
Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Help Translate ProZ.com Into Your Language
Migration from SDL Termbase to Trados Multiterm
Terminología y terminótica en la formación de traductores e intérpretes en Argentina
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Team Collaboration
You get what you pay for
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
Hiring a Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? The decision is yours.
El Interprete y Su Par
Lost (and Found) In Translation
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
A Memory that Never Forgets
Lu Xun: A Case Study in Foreignising Translation
IT'S 9:00 O'CLOCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CLIENTS’ SENSITIVE DATA IS?
An introduction to ProZ.com Connect!
Die Crux mit den Probetexten
Smilies & Other Basic Text Formats in Proz.com Forums: Quick Reference Guide
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
Importance of localization for India
Translation and Text Understanding
Teaching English to second language learners
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
San Jerónimo y la traducción
Currency Risk Mitigation 101 for Translators
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Whether or not to perform a “short unpaid test”
Hosting: Using databases
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
A Tradução Audiovisual
The Book to Bind Them All
Pendrive for a translator
Have your own home business and keep up with your family commitments
Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Likestilling og språkbruk
Time Management and the Art of Saying No
Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders
De los orígenes del lenguaje
Organinzing Your Day
Language services – the bedrock of knowledge services in today’s knowledge economy
Gestión de la calidad en la industria del lenguaje: cuando se sale a la jungla
Equivalent Rates in Translation Billing
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» “Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
By Giovanna Digovic | Published 11/14/2008 | Technology | Recommendation:
The birth of Internet has led to a new virtual dimension running in a parallel line with the real and touchable world; this virtual aspect is not tangible, although it is part of our daily lives. My intention is to outline some of the most common fears which the human being has to face when entering the virtual world in Internet.
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» Pendrive for a translator
By Stanislaw Czech | Published 04/3/2008 | Technology | Recommendation:
How to turn a tiny device into a moveable office. Store files, run programs and much more.
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» Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
By Kevin Lossner | Published 01/12/2008 | Technology , CAT Tools | Recommendation:
Déjà Vu X is a versatile tool capable of translating many formats, including the standard SDL Trados TTX format. This quickstart guide describes how to do this conveniently.
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» Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
By Karin Kutscher | Published 01/13/2007 | Technology | Recommendation:
An idea to create local pools of translators with expertise in computers at the user level, who can help their colleagues on an as-needed basis.
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» Switching word order in MS Word
By Christopher Lord | Published 08/9/2006 | Technology | Recommendation:
two very useful macros for instant switching of word order in Word documents
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