Freelance translator’s activities can be divided into three types: Professional Development, Management and Marketing.
In order to explain my position, I will use the list of tips for new translators recently posted by Jill Sommer on her blog, Musings from an overworked translator.
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Following an interesting comment from a new translator, Jill gave ten tips to get started in the translation business:
Read MoreHello to the readers of LDlanguageservices.com. In this post I am going to show you how to align documents in memoQ using memoQ’s LiveAlign ™ technology.
Before we start, just a quick reminder what an alignment actually is:
Alignment is a procedure to build translation memories from previous translations.
MemoQ offers two ways for doing this:
Read More. . . do what I have done, because there are no universal rules for getting started as a freelance translator.
My position is that it is better to do something than to do nothing at all for fear of doing the wrong thing. At least you could say I tried and failed rather than I failed but never tried.
Read MoreI keep searching for new sources of information for translators and language learners. With this post I continue to share with you German – Russian Translation Tutorials I found on the web.
This time they include texts, exercises, expressions and words in the fields of Correctional Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, Culturology, Special Psychology and Philosophy.
All tutorials have the same structure:
Alignment is a procedure to build translation memories from previous translations.
MemoQ offers two ways for doing this:
In this post I am going to show you Traditional Alignment in memoQ.
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