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Pricing is a controversial and complex subject, and one that all linguists need to think about very seriously. In order to make a good living in the profession that we love, it is essential to figure out how to price our services. It is not about the price someone tells you to charge, but rather … […]
Why the First, Best Lesson I Learned about Translation Was a Healthy Fear. I was a poor, scrawny white kid with crooked teeth who grew up in the barren hills of central Arizona. The year before my birth, the Soviets launched Sputnik, shocking the world, and causing a frantic U.S. Congress … Language: Perfect
In this post, we’ll look at some of the most common types of client changes and how to handle them. TERMINOLOGY CHANGES The client decided to use a different term. As long as the new proposed term makes sense in the context and renders the source properly, without conflicting with previously-translated materials or a glossary, … […]
Recently my work focus moves slowly from translation to review. And after you perform a review, you often have to document the changes, especially when there is a lot of them. Although the newer CAT tools offer track changes function (available, for example, in memoQ or Trados Studio), the creation of a report readable outside […]
I received an assignment from a long-standing client last week that made my Spidey-sense tingle as soon as I read the instructions. It was billed as a super easy review of a translation done in-house at a hospital which should take no more than half an hour. Uh-huh. http://translationwordshop.com
Language Intelligence employs several professional Localization Project Managers to manage our clients’ complex projects. A Localization Project Manager handles the project from beginning to end including: source content analysis, project initiation, project planning, assembling translation teams and managing in-country translation review. Let’s get into each of these activities in a little more detail… […]
In our series ‘Welocalize and Global Manufacturing’, Sarah Evans discusses the Importance of Effective Terminology Management with tips for localization. Home
Whether you’re a small or large company, you live or die by your reputation. Most of reputation management is focused on pushing down negative search results — in particular, negative reviews. Responding to your negative reviews may attempt to bridge the gap between how a company perceives itself and how others view it. […]
Tradumanager is a project management software for translation service providers. It is available in two versions: for translators and for translation agencies. It is a stand-alone software that users can download and install to their Windows computers. Home page
(e-book extract) The translation should ideally be checked with a revision. The aim of this stage is to verify the accuracy of the translated text in comparison to the source text, as well as to ensure fluency and adaptation to the target audience. The spelling and grammar is also checked, and the choice of terminology […]
The task of translating marketing materials used to be seen as a simple and solitary job. However, globalization and the demands of the digital era have made the task of localizing marketing campaigns much more complex. Home | Insight-driven localisation
Since a recent unpleasant experience I had with a reviewer (also called a proofreader) and because of the discussion developing on Proz.com on the subject of what a proofreader is supposed to do, I thought I’d share my take on the matter. © PIXS00Z-FOTOLIA.COM https://alexandria-translation-resources.com
(Illustration: Marlène Junius) Conséquence des dernières normes qualité dans le secteur de la traduction, de nombreux fournisseurs de services de traduction imposent révision ou remaniement systématique des textes traduits par un second traducteur, avec l’idée que cela améliore nécessairement la qualité. http://traduire.revues.org
