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One Translator's Thoughts on Software Localization
Facets of Software Localization
Cómo traducir al español títulos de periódicos ingleses
El componente enciclopédico de la traducción
FInd&Replace Hints
How to collect stories with PageMaker for Mac (and PC too) without Trados Story Collector
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
Researching the meaning of neologisms in emerging technologies
Technical terms - translate or not translate?
Traduire : l’importance de la connaissance profonde de la langue d’arrivée.
An Approach to the Translation of Literature: Rich Points & What They Reveal
How to translate culture-bound elements (in Italian)
ten commandments of a successful author
Trying to Publish
Corpus Linguistics: Meaning in Context
Escritura de números en textos
How to find direct clients
More useful shortcuts for Word
Spanish punctuation
Creating and using a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
How to give your Dutch customers a 40% discount
Being Freelance translator in Spain
How to build a professional WEB SITE
How to continue foreign language immersion when you are no longer immersed in it!
How to prepare freelance-specific CV
Keeping your PC clean and safe
Be considered for projects
Guide to accept on line payment
More Money - Same Workload
Translating into the lingua franca
How to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing
IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/1
Keep your child immersed in your native language
Earn KudoZ points effectively!
KudoZ - deciding whether a question is PRO or non-PRO
How to improve your listing in the ProZ.com freelancer directory
Hosting: Domain names
Organizing a ProZ.com powwow in your city
How to change browser encoding and install languages to read Japanese text.
How valuable time can be to a freelance translator
Cómo ser un buen intérprete simultáneo
How Not To Catch a Virus at Home
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 improve WinXP performance
How to make your own Keyboard Layout
How To optimally use Google
How to optimize your searches on the Internet [Howto in English and French]
How to unite all your Instant Messengers
Linux for Translators HOWTO
Optimizing Your PC for Translation
Tutorial de iniciación a la Traduccion de Programas
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
Useful shortcuts
Using Yahoo Briefcase to quickly share files and images
Windows shortcuts; listed in a systematic way
What is Software Localization?
Basic Wordfast tutorial in Bulgarian/ Начално ръководство за Wordfast на български език
How to apply find/replace in Trados
How to translate Framemaker 7 file with Trados (using Workspace)
OmegaT review
Demystifying Software Globalization
Finding the Handle on Physics
A Journey into Chinese-English Environmental Translation
Engineering Translations: Building Bridges
The Role of Communication in Peace and Relief Mission Negotiations
Memory Training in Interpreting
The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Neologisms in International Development
Does Juliet's Rose, by Any Other Name, Smell as Sweet?
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?
Research on Dictionary Use by Trainee Translators
Some Advice on Preparing for Simultaneous Interpretation of Current Political Themes
His Excellency and His Interpreter
Interprete professionista o professionista interprete?
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
Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation
Accommodation in Translation
Toward Corpus-Based Machine Translation for Standard Arabic
Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality
Translation Practices in International Advertising
The Invisible in Translation: The Role of Text Structure
Foreignization/Domestication and Yihua/Guihua: A Contrastive Study
Marketing Your Translation Services: Test Translations—To Do or Not to Do?
Heading for Trouble
What Every Novice Translator Should Know
For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Translator's Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
It's a Small World
Test Translations - an Update
Collection
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
Translation and Typesetting
The Viewer as the Focus of Subtitling Towards a Viewer-oriented Approach
What Is the Word for "you" in Portuguese?
Maddening Amusements; A Richness of Trees
Lexicographical considerations in creating an online bilingual lexicon for students from a Chinese background: The problem of translation
Knowing Before Learning: Ten Concepts Students Should Understand Prior to Enrolling in a University Translation or Interpretation Class
Translation and Interpretation Work for the LNG Tangguh Project in Papua, Indonesia
A Discussion on Features of Financial English Vocabulary and its Translation into Chinese
TIPS&TRICKS PER IL TRADUTTORE FREELANCE 1a puntata: BABYLON BUILDER
Mother Tongue ---How crucial is it for translation?
A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
Seven easy (and free) ways to boost your profile traffic
The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
A Good Translation is Never Finished - the Vital Role of Follow-Up
Bir Çevirmen Grafiker ile Nasıl Çalışmalı?
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
El Pretérito Perfecto ¿se cayó de las Carabelas de Colón?
How to feed Translating Brains?
How to find direct clients?
To disappear, but to keep on hearing
More on Getting Direct Clients
Cómo encontrar clientes directos: una idea
International Business Emails - Do and Don't
12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation
Effective ProZ Quotes
EL LENGUAJE DE LA PERSUASIÓN EN EL DISCURSO JURÍDICO
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
Customizing the Wordfast template
EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
Translation reviews
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
En KudoZ enseñas y aprendes; das y recibes; participas y ganas
How to promote yourself
Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Creating shortcuts for common terms in Word
Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Prix, service et marketing
Prices, Service and Marketing
My golden rules for quality assurance
Bidding on Proz
Tips for Writing Better Texts in English
Doing What With My Preface?
Guida semplificata all’uso di Trados
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
Editing Segments and Concordance Search in various CAT tools
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traducción y lengua
Traduciendo errores originales
Mauvaise traduction de titres d'oeuvres d'art
Alignement de corpus multilingues, repérage d'entités nommées et UNITEX
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
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
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Translating Certificates
Found in translation - Have TRADOS, will translate
Mentoring new translators
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
La localización de software
Translating certificates
¿Quién cuida al proveedor de servicios?
Basic guide on how to start working with WinAlign
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
How to translate changing documents
Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
FROM TEXT TO THE SPIRIT WITHIN - ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF MIORITA AS A TARGET TEXT
Make the first impression count!
Profiling the Multilingual Mind
A Beginner's Guide to Translation Errors
Making Your Resume Stand-Out: A Lesson in Professionalism
Choosing the correct font for your job (in the context of Hindi)
A few marketing tips for online freelance translators from a customer view point
Blog as a marketing tool for freelance translators and interpreters
Project Managers in a Translation Agency — Who Are They?
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’!
Translating certificates
Confessions of a translator heretic
Setting up shop in Jakarta Indonesia (part one)
Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
The Ethics of Non-Translation
Dolmetschen im Krieg
Can learning to type more quickly improve your business?
Translating idioms and buzzwords
How to Translate Manuals for Mechanical Equipments?
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
How to save neck, back, wrists
Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
Algunos interrogantes vigentes en el mundo de la traducción.
Sixteen (16) cornerstones of ProZ.com
Win Win Communication
Quality Management for Localization and Translation Projects
Research and Analysis in the Translation of Correspondence
9 reasons for the most simple, economical, fast and effective way of marketing by freelance translators
Name of translator in publications (books or other)
Dealing with Quality Issues on the Translation process (revised)
Personalidad del Interprete
A NON-NATIVE USER PERSPECTIVE OF CORPUS-BASED DICTIONARIES
Slightly more advanced SEO for your website
Poétique des moteurs de traduction
Entrer en traduction, immigrer, l’un et l’autre, quelle histoire !
Common Errors Made by Macedonian Learners of English Due to L1 Interference
Waking Up Sleeping Dogs - ARGENTINE TRANSLATORS - Capable and Cheap: An Irresistible Combination
Ppt.Helper - A Real Help!
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
Hiring a Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? The decision is yours.
Review of Translation Quality Assurance Software
Lost (and Found) In Translation
Consciousness in Translation - Part One
Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
Ten Commandments of a Freelance Translator
How to generate a multiple language terminology db from a Web glossary
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
ПЕРЕВОД НАЗВАНИЙ КОСМЕТИЧЕСКИХ И АНАЛОГИЧНЫХ ИНГРЕДИЕНТОВ
Using Web 2.0 technologies for translation business
The invisible client and service provider
THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED
Beginner's first steps with Similis
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
Challenges and nature of a formal language strategy
Interpreting into a foreign language
Translations: Do Them In-House or Contract Them Out?
Why teach English as a foreign language? What's in it for me?
Translation Evaluation in Educational Setting for Training Purposes: Theories and Application
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
Blind translators
Teaching English to second language learners
Nine golden hints to make Wikipedia work for you
Doctor Pinheiro and Doctor Magagnin in Translation and Poetry
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
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
Miscue Analysis in Reading a Second Language
Developing Departments of English
San Jerónimo y la traducción
Currency Risk Mitigation 101 for Translators
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
Trados beginner's guide
The consulting approach to translation - a case study
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.
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
Whether or not to perform a “short unpaid test”
A Project Naming Convention & Workflow suggestion
ATA Presentation 2007: Free and Open Source Software for Translators
ATA Presentation 2007: Roll your own: Web-based Translation Portals and Translation Management Systems
Translating the Crisis
Governmentspeak
Hosting: Using databases
Business Plans for the Translator
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Marine Science 101: SEO, Good Copy, and Translation
Incongruity of Company Law Terms: Categorization of Polish Business Entities
Becoming an efficient conference interpreter
Cómo afrontar una traducción técnica
How to localize webhelp files
A Tradução Audiovisual
Babel Not: Machine Translation for the Technical Communicator
Pendrive for a translator
Retour critique sur The Scandals of Translation
Penerjemah Tersumpah atau Terjemahan Tersumpah?
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
Panduan dalam Mencari Penerjemah
Klien Adalah Raja?
Traducir metáforas del inglés al español
¿Cómo traducir verbos de movimiento del inglés al español?
30 September Hari Penerjemah Internasional - Sejarah Singkat
Penerjemah - Ilmuwan dan Seniman
Kasus Tuduhan Salah-Terjemah Buku Menkes vs Undang-undang Penerjemahan
Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
Likestilling og språkbruk
Las competencias del traductor
Peeking what’s inside the software localization & internationalization (Indonesia local context)
The Student & Teacher Relationship
Buchrezension Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen - Spanisch
¿Deben los traductores de países en desarrollo aceptar tarifas más bajas cuando trabajan para el mercado internacional?
Organinzing Your Day
Gestión de la calidad en la industria del lenguaje: cuando se sale a la jungla
An unsolvable problem of specialization
ESTABLISHING YOURSELF AS A TRANSLATOR – WHO DO YOU TRUST IN THIS BUSINESS?
How to Increase Your Rates
ESTUDIO SOBRE PREGUNTAS KUDOS CERRADAS SIN PUNTAJE
Prospecting for Gold - How to manage your work flow
VIDEO TRANSLATION 101
Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences between Foreign Societies (2/2)
Torre de Blogbel
“Intersections between real and virtual world: some fears in Internet.”
Google - zaawansowane wyszukiwanie treści dla tłumaczy
Of Translation Jobs and Glossaries
Finding your style
¿Traductor o clon? / Translator or clone?
Aligning texts with Hunalign
Zachowanie jakości tłumaczenia - proces QA
Checklist for Reloading Your PC
Translation Rates and Fees
How to conquer new clients
Le grandi traduzioni nella storia e il progresso culturale e scientifico
Особенности мотивации и обратной связи при работе с переводчиками-фрилансерами
A New Beginning: Guidelines for Successfully Establishing a Second Career
Suggestion for teaching translation in Iran's Universities
APRENDER A ENTENDER
Come crearsi un sito web in poche ore
Certificates, Curriculum Vitae and other Credentials: Creating an Important Translation Specialty
Translation of Published Works
Ortografía española: cuatro errores comunes… entre los traductores
Memorie di traduzione in versione mini
Financial Translations: Tips for Beginners
8 Tips for secure files
Interpretation Intelligence: Diverse Uses of Interpretation Skills
Targets, Productivity and Pricing
Pinyin or characters?
From or into?
Intervention délibérée du traducteur au théâtre
KISAH PENERJEMAHAN THE FIFTH COLUMN KARYA HEMINGWAY
In praise of cloud storage for backing up data
Bilingualism
Romanisation of Arabic words
Креститель или Христитель?
Sulitkah Menjadi Penerjemah?
Perfect Punctuation
Translating and interpreting from English to Malagasy: obstacles and challenges
KETIKA HARUS MEMILIH
DTP Procedure for Technical Translations
Silicon Valley – Кремниевая или Силиконовая долина?
TESOL qualifications:- which one to choose?
Slang (American)
Using IMAP for emails provides backup and ease of access
THE POOR STATUS OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATIONS
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
This could spell trouble
Teaching English as A Second Language
Using An SQL Database From A ProZ-Hosted Web Page
A Recent History and Prospects of Translation
¿Enseñar idiomas o sonidos?
How to Improve Your Visibility on the Internet
English Affix Acquisition
Warum eine Firewall und welche für Vista?
Translating Business Letters into Japanese: Organization, Common Etiquettes, and Helpful Websites
Huazimet ‘konsekutiv’ e ‘simultan’
The ProZ.com saga
Playing Machine Translation at the end
Ética en la industria de la traducción - Primera parte
What would it take for one to be a professional translator?
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
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 1er episodio: BABYLON BUILDER
TIPS&TRICKS PARA EL TRADUCTOR FREELANCE 3er episodio: archivos .xls e .ppt con Trados Workbench y TagEditor
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 1rst episode: BABYLON BUILDER
HOW TO MAKE EASIER A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR’S LIFE 3rd episode: .xls and .ppt files usign Trados Workbench and TagEditor
FAQ per il traduttore freelance
Best Practice per il traduttore freelance
Une nouvelle version d’Antidote
Turning Thorns into Roses: Managing Challenging Clients
Juliane House e il suo modello per valutare la qualità di una traduzione
Using Open Source Translation Tools Arabic Language
Juego de custodia
The concept of a Chinese ‘city’ and the translation of ‘市’
Teaching English as a second language
The client doesn’t select you, YOU select your client.
Перевод немецких неологизмов с помощью поисковых систем
Protégete del fraude cibernético
El papel del traductor en una sociedad diglósica
What a good interpreter at court should know
Working for Translation Agencies as a Freelancer: a Guide for Novice Translators
Abu Said's Mystical Poetry
Translating Gender from English to Persian
TRANSLATOR’S BEST FRIENDS
Why pay more or beware of cheap translation services
Textual and Contextual (Around problem of translation, localization, and contextualization in Indonesia)
Echivalenţa în traducere
La catena del valore nella traduzione - Welcome to the Translation Party
ING or S: A Matter of Ending
With Naturalness, Naturally
Algunas de las dificultades de la traducción del inglés al español
El proceso de comunicación desde la perspectiva del dinero, el poder y la mentira. La interpretación en un Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros.
Dos Fundamentos na Profissão de Tradutor
Teaching English to second language learners
Court interpreting
Población con Habilidad Limitada del Idioma Inglés (LEP). Profesionales y traducción médica
Simple Technique to Save your Time and Energy while Translating
Why should we re-examine Translator education and training at university level in Morocco ?
The loss of mother tongue
DIFFERENCE OF USAGE SIMPLIFIED BETWEEN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INDICATIVE FORMS IN FRENCH
Bengali: Past and Present
Internationalization in Localization
Serious Errors in User Manuals
Concentration : how not to pick cherries with your back to the tree.
Ressource pour InDesign
Bahasa Indonesia and Information Technology
Português PT versus Português BR
Português PT versus Português BR, 2º acto
Translation Services Topics: Pros and Cons of TM Software in a Working Relationship
Cómo hacer de ProZ.com tu mejor herramienta
Come organizzare e gestire il lavoro da casa
Особенности употребления личных местоимений в бенгальском языке
ESL Teaching. What should be kept in mind
EFL: Cooperative Learning
The Linguist and Social Media: Promotion through Twitter
Converting translation memories into spreadsheets and vice versa
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).
Відтворення фразеологізмів казкового мовлення І. Франка (на матеріалі англомовних перекладів поеми-казки „Лис Микита")
Educating the Client, or Zen and the Art of Sanity Maintenance (*)
The Linguist and Social Media: Promotion Through Facebook
Switching off at the end of the day
Project Management in Translation
La méthode GTD ou comment s'organiser efficacement
Translation or 'The Art of Goofing Up'
Standard English & English Varieties
Running Idiom Desktop Workbench on Windows 8
Accentuation
Η διερμηνεία των νοηματικών γλωσσών
Conversion of decimal and thousand separators: English to Portuguese and vice-versa
Las bases de estandarización en el cobro del trabajo de traducción
What your Project Manager is (probably) thinking
May 24th - celebrating Bulgarian Education and Culture, and Slavonic Literature
Idiomatic or pragmatic?
Using Xbench as a low cost TM solution
HOW TO EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY WITH THE HELP OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS
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
Indiferencia artificial
Optimizing your Time with Keyboard Shortcuts
Starters’ Set of Hot Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Part II
Da crase às preposições, artigos e demonstrativos
Translation techniques used in the translation of english phrasal verbs into farsi: the case of lord of the flies and its 3 farsi translations
Making the translator’s life easier!
La nouvelle orthographe - un livre utile
Good Proofreaders/Bad Proofreaders
Software open source, software libero e licenze Creative Commons
Neologismi, prestiti e parole straniere
L'eredità latina
English Keys and Turkish Heads
Zapatero a tu zapato
ProZ.com profile: Creating a standout "About me"
İngilizce Çevirilerde Dikkat Edilmesi Gereken Hususlar
Peter Eisenman: The Architecture of Chaos
Dificultades de la traducción de los textos deportivos
How to apply to agencies and outsourcers
Business Plans for the Translator
Introduction to Song Translation
El pretérito imperfecto y la traducción
Using the ProZ.com Blue Board
La naturalidad de la traducción. Dificultades específicas en el par Ruso – Español
La lingua inglese: cenni storici
5 business mistakes that beginning freelance translators make and how to avoid them
Tu marca y la localización: cinco consejos para que le hables a tu público objetivo desde el inicio
La globalización y la necesidad de intérpretes profesionales
Understanding Compensation Issues related to PEMT
Translating from a Minority Language Perspective – A Finland-Swedish Translator’s Challenges
The Translator's Image in Sydney Pollack's Film The Interpreter (The Ethical Dilemma).
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
The Gaps
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
Red flags: a few things to watch out for when dealing with clients
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
The Sounds of Confusion
Structure and meaning of a Vietnamese name
When You Are Unsure About What You Have Heard, Why Do You Not Try To Ask Them To Spell It? – A Case of Unfair Rejection
Posicionamiento de nuestra página web
TRANSLATION TOPICS: PAYMENT TOOLS
Collaborative translation with OmegaT
Origins, and Recovery of Common Sense
Translating Words without Counterparts in the Target Language
Creating a Translation Course Syllabus
Hands on advice for teaching a second language (and surviving the attempt)
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
Traduttori, CAT Tool e utilizzo dei sistemi Mac
Análisis literario del libro Cecilia Valdés
The “ProZ” and cons of the translation workplace
Anglicismos léxicos y sintácticos en la traducción médica
La PEC per traduttori, sì o no?
Ensinar o inglês como segunda língua
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
Traducir metáforas
El idioma español en Cuba y República Dominicana
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
Freelance and getting other extra earnings (in Armenian)
'About me' with style – using CSS to enrich your presentation on ProZ.com with typography
O czym rozmawiasz z klientem w windzie?
STAGE DIRECTIONS AND CHARACTERS’ DIALOG AS DOMINANT TOOLS IN CONSTRUCTING THE MINDSET OF BRITISH COMMUNITY TOWARD MINORITIES’ INTEGRATION IN GROW YOUR OWN
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
Competing... for the translator?
Konkurencja... o tłumacza?
The Friendliness of False Friends (Part 1)
Costa del Sol - Vereidigte Übersetzer und Dolmetscher sind Mangelware
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  • Another website on producing PDF files (Posted by Trinh Do on 06/26/2007)
    Another website that is often used to convert Word, Excel, Powerpoint, .jpg, .gif files is http://www.pdfonline.com. This offers conversion free of charge. Its only limitation is that the maximum memory size is 2MB.

     
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