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El componente enciclopédico de la traducción
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Video subtitling
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Be considered for projects
Getting Back on the Horse After Years Away
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Keep your child immersed in your native language
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Blue Board - an overview
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Role of ProZ.com Moderators
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How to unite all your Instant Messengers
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
PDF files: creating, using, converting
SEARCH ENGINES FEATURES AND SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Useful shortcuts
Using Yahoo Briefcase to quickly share files and images
Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
Translating HTML files
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Installing OmegaT (+Java) on Debian GNU/Linux
WinAlign - alineación de documentos
Diesel Engines: A Brief Overview
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The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
The Language of Inflation
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Translating SOPs in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Environment
Review of Atril’s Déjà Vu 2 The Happy Hoarder
WordFisher for MS Word An alternative to translation memory programs for freelance translators?
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Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
La traduzione giuridica
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Going Broke in Brazil
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The Translator's Dilemma - Implicatures and the role of the translator
ProZ.com User Manual
Accommodation in Translation
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
Translation Practices in International Advertising
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
Sorry Guys, You Can't Win
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Heading for Trouble
Book Review: Science in Translation
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
Translation and Typesetting
In the Footsteps of Giants Translating Shakespeare for Dubbing
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
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
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Guida semplificata all'uso di Trados
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A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
Translating Culture - Specific Metaphoric expressions
How to spell-check your TRADOS translation memories
Demonio ex Machina
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
La Profesión de Interprete
La traducción y el nuevo orden mundial
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
Working with Simultaneous Interpreters
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
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Customizing the Wordfast template
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
Confessions of a 'KudoZ point grabber'
Translation's Lost Art
Translation reviews
COMO CONSEGUIR CLIENTES DIRECTOS
How to promote yourself
Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Prix, service et marketing
Prices, Service and Marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
The difference between editing and proofreading
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traducción y lengua
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
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Add entries to your term base - with a little help from Excel
Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
Come lavorare con un PC in ordine - Linee guida per il traduttore freelance
Found in translation – meet Alice, Bob and Carol
Hints for a good teaching
To share or not to share
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Mentoring new translators
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
Make the first impression count!
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
Prospectos de Medicamentos. Responsabilidad del traductor: “... ante la menor duda consulte a su medico.... y/o traductor...”
Adaptation, Transliteration, Domestication
Choosing the correct font for your job (in the context of Hindi)
Georgian Fonts
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Greek Cultural Keywords: Language Reflecting Culture Through Vocabulary
Confessions of a translator heretic
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
Pilih Mana? Situs atau Sites? Elektrik atau Elektris?
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Language Politics
Translating Certificates
Switching word order in MS Word
Closing old Kudoz questions
ProZ.com overview and action plan (#1 of 8): Sourcing (ie. jobs / directory)
CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS DE TRADUCTOLOGÍA
Quality management for translation projects
9 reasons for the most simple, economical, fast and effective way of marketing by freelance translators
The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
Slightly more advanced SEO for your website
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Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Terminología y terminótica en la formación de traductores e intérpretes en Argentina
Dua Teknik Dasar: perspektif penerjemah Indonesia
KudoZ di Proz.com (Pembaca Indonesia)
You get what you pay for
Translating culture-specific notions
Different sections in a test make the test more reliable
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
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Hiring a Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? The decision is yours.
El Interprete y Su Par
A Memory that Never Forgets
Lu Xun: A Case Study in Foreignising Translation
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Ten Commandments of a Freelance Translator
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Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
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Interpreting into a foreign language
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Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Translation and Text Understanding
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Aesthetics of Saudade
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Blogging - what's it all about?
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Court in Translation - Common areas of Court Interpreting and Screen Translation
Developing Departments of English
Professionalism as a key to success
The Communicational Circuit of Translation
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Accents in Subtitles: Can subtitles portray the difference? Analysing Pedro Almodóvar’s All About my Mother.
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Project Organization for Scheduling and Reference
Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Business Plans for the Translator
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
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Translating SDL Trados TTX Files in Déjà Vu X
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
Entering the World of Freelance Translation
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
Have your own home business and keep up with your family commitments
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