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Cómo usar el gerundio en español
Doing Trados-translated rtf cleanup manually in GNU Emacs
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Technical terms - translate or not translate?
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
Trying to Publish
How to find direct clients
Spanish punctuation - Continued
Avoid the "Brazil Risk"
Hidden ways to promote your website
Is Subcontractor a virtue, or a vice?
Working for Agencies
Being Freelance translator in Spain
Sources of Pro Bono Translation Work
¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para que los traductores públicos se registren en la jurisdicción de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina?
How to collect late payments
How to limit the risk of not getting paid
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Blue Board - an overview
Hosting: Using email
Organizing a ProZ.com powwow in your city
How to Organize an ID Verification Pow-wow
Instructions on how to enable your browsers to be able to read Devanagri (Hindi).
Desktop Search Programs
How to avoid undesirable mail (read "spam") in your mail-box
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
Linux for Translators HOWTO
Linux for Translators Myths and FAQs
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
How to translate Mac PageMaker file with Trados on PC
Another TRADOS help (Spanish)
Basic Wordfast tutorial in Bulgarian/ Начално ръководство за Wordfast на български език
How to translate a CAD drawing with a CAT tool
OmegaT review
SDLX optimization.
Trados beginner's guide
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Handling Greek and Latin Terms in Spanish Medical Translation
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?
An Effective and Inexpensive Translation Memory Tool
Using MS Word's Advanced Find and Replace Function
Trados - Is It a Must?
Standard Bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L
Working from audio recordings
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
The Law of Business Organizations under the New Brazilian Civil Code
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 Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
A Little Conversation about Tone and Translation
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Reflections of a Human Translator on Machine Translation Will MT Become the "Deus Ex Machina" Rendering Humans Obsolete in an Age When "Deus Est Machina?"
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Translation Practices in International Advertising
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
The Business of Translating
Marketing Your Translation Services: Test Translations—To Do or Not to Do?
The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators
An Easy Translation Job
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
Book Review: Science in Translation
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
Translation: A Market in Crisis?
Collection
Source Language versus Target Language Bias
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
What Is the Word for "you" in Portuguese?
Into English
Coping with You
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
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
Translation and Interpretation Work for the LNG Tangguh Project in Papua, Indonesia
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE - 1a puntada
Guida semplificata all'uso di Trados
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
A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up
La teoría de la traducción como herramienta para cotizarse mejor ante potenciales clientes.
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
El Pretérito Perfecto ¿se cayó de las Carabelas de Colón?
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
How to feed Translating Brains?
How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories
More on Getting Direct Clients
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Working with Simultaneous Interpreters
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
Translation's Lost Art
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
COMO CONSEGUIR CLIENTES DIRECTOS
HOW TO CLEAN SECTIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLEANED BY TRADOS
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
Bidding on Proz
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Traduciendo errores originales
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
How to ask questions (to get the best answers) in 13 easy steps (Part 1)
Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
How to organize a translation office - with Translation Office 3000
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Mic ghid de citire/scriere în Unicode pe ProZ.com
To share or not to share
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
Translating Certificates
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
Translator Prerequisites and the A-Z of becoming a Translator
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
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Make the first impression count!
Prospectos de Medicamentos. Responsabilidad del traductor: “... ante la menor duda consulte a su medico.... y/o traductor...”
Making Your Resume Stand-Out: A Lesson in Professionalism
Better Game on Translation Business
Again the Dilemma of ‘Persian’ or ‘Farsi’!
A TagEditor Secret
Setting up shop in Jakarta Indonesia (part one)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
A Translator's CV - a translator's best friend- Part III
The Ethics of Non-Translation
How to Find Direct Clients?
Language Politics
Switching word order in MS Word
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
La importancia del tiempo para un traductor independiente
MyGreeklish to Standard Greeklish Translator needed
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Algunos interrogantes vigentes en el mundo de la traducción.
ProZ.com overview and action plan (#1 of 8): Sourcing (ie. jobs / directory)
Sixteen (16) cornerstones of ProZ.com
CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA
Win Win Communication
Quality management for 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.
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE - 2a puntata: WINALIGN
Poétique des moteurs de traduction
Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
Critique of translation in Indonesia
Terminología y terminótica en la formación de traductores e intérpretes en Argentina
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
Team Collaboration
Translating culture-specific notions
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
The Freelance Translator's Website: Futile Accessory or Professional Tool?
Hiring a Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? The decision is yours.
Les traducteurs et la révolution informatique
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
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
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Is there a 'critical age' for language acquisition?
Respect for the craft of translation
The invisible client and service provider
THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Nine golden hints to make Wikipedia work for you
Aesthetics of Saudade
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
Blogging - what's it all about?
Miscue Analysis in Reading a Second Language
Professionalism as a key to success
The Communicational Circuit of Translation
Currency Risk Mitigation 101 for Translators
The consulting approach to translation - a case study
Whether or not to perform a “short unpaid test”
Governmentspeak
Business Plans for the Translator
MemoQ - what does it offer?
Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Domestication vs. Foreignization in English-Arabic Translation
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Brazilian vs. European (aka Continental or Iberian) Portuguese explained for non-Portuguese speakers
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
What our rates really hide
Have your own home business and keep up with your family commitments
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
Xenoglosofilia di Indonesia - Suatu Kelainan Psikolinguistik?
The issue of non-native English-speakers vs. native English-speakers as teachers of English as a second language
O Paladino de Luis Vaz de Camoes
John Donne’s metaphysical poetry
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
Likestilling og språkbruk
De los orígenes del lenguaje
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