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Role of ProZ.com Moderators
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Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation
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The Language of Business Entities in Brazil
Neologisms in International Development
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Electronic File Transfer & Conversion
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ProZ.com User Manual
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Accommodation in Translation
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The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators
An Easy Translation Job
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Don Kiraly's A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education
What the Guys Said, the Way They Said It, As Best We Can
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Are you Prepared to Meet Your Client?
Lab Report on a Marketing Campaign for Freelance Translation Services
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The Power of Film Translation
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The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation
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International Business Emails - Do and Don't
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Simultaneous Translator - She Does Not Exist
Effective ProZ Quotes
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EL TERMINO "NOTARIO" Y SUS DIFERENCIAS LINGUISTICAS
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Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
TRADUCCIÓN DE NOMBRES PROPIOS Y SIGLAS
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Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Prix, service et marketing
Translating Names: Indonesia Case
My golden rules for quality assurance
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
Creciente avance del teletrabajo
Indonesian Translator’s Perspective: So what, gitu loh?
Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Traducción y lengua
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
Motifs and Leitmotifs in English and Russian
THE CREATIVE WORLD OF SPANISH SUBTITLES
Contracts I: Would you sign this?
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AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Translating Certificates
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
Translating certificates
ProZ.com site glossary
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Translation Criticism- How to deal with Regionalisms?
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Georgian Fonts
Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Errors and Error Correction in Language Teaching
Better Game on Translation Business
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Gender-sensitive writing in Hindi
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The Ethics of Non-Translation
The Case for Two (or Three) Monitors
La importancia del tiempo para un traductor independiente
Common Mistakes in Translating from Chinese into English
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Skype als Kommunikationsmittel mit den Auftraggebern oder freien Mitarbeitern
ProZ.com overview and action plan (#1 of 8): Sourcing (ie. jobs / directory)
Sixteen (16) cornerstones of ProZ.com
Quality management for translation projects
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A Price That Is Too High to Pay
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The Details and the Spirit of a Literal Translation
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Poétique des moteurs de traduction
Comparing the German and English Translation of Turn in the River by Andrey Dmitriev
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KudoZ di Proz.com (Pembaca Indonesia)
Translating culture-specific notions
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in translations
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El Interprete y Su Par
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Consciousness in Translation - Part Two
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Using Web 2.0 technologies for translation business
The invisible client and service provider
Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
Importance of localization for India
Challenges and nature of a formal language strategy
Why teach English as a foreign language? What's in it for me?
Translation and Text Understanding
Blind translators
Teaching English to second language learners
Nine golden hints to make Wikipedia work for you
Seeking for the Faultless Interpreter.
How To Prepare Yourself For The Challenges as a Freelance Translator
Miscue Analysis in Reading a Second Language
Professionalism as a key to success
San Jerónimo y la traducción
Importância do estudo dos dicionários jurídicos bilíngües
Trados beginner's guide
PC平台QuarkXPress文档的中文本地化应用
Consciousness in Translation - Part Four
How to translate advertisement and marketing texts
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Put OCR Software in Your Business Model
Governmentspeak
Hosting: Using databases
Translating Transit Projects with Déjà Vu X
Become a Succesfull Conf Interpreter
French Business Expenses: Keeping as much as you can
Beginner's first steps with MemoQ and Wordfast
Multilingual Clients and Language Interference.
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Hiring right - road to success
The Book to Bind Them All
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The issue of non-native English-speakers vs. native English-speakers as teachers of English as a second language
Keterpercayaan Penerjemah Online
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El British National Corpus aplicado a la enseñanza de inglés
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Çevirmenin üzerine düşen görev nedir? Kaynak dilin hedef dile aktarılmasında çevirmenin yükü sizce de çok ağır değil midir? Ekonomik yönü ele alındığında, para kazanmak ön plana çıktığında çeviri nasıl etkilenir? Çevirmenin sahip olması gereken başlıca özellikler nelerdir? Bu sorular kısaca yanıtlanmaya çalışıldı bu yazıda.
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» Guide to international taxation (Double taxation)
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Guidelines for understanding International Taxation and double taxation policies and how to find out how and where the tax is to be paid. (Specific case of France and India but has information that can help find out about other countries.)
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» Translation theory with regards to translating metaphors
By lingualab | Published 05/24/2008 | Translation Theory | Recommendation:
An introduction to various translation theories on translating metaphors, outlining the theories of Dagut and Newmark, and touching upon the theories of Nida, Vinay, Darbelnet, Lomheim and Anderman.
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» Kasus Tuduhan Salah-Terjemah Buku Menkes vs Undang-undang Penerjemahan
By Hipyan Nopri | Published 05/13/2008 | Marketing Your Language Services | Recommendation:
Kasus yang pertama kali terjadi di Indonesia di mana seorang menteri secara terbuka menuduh seorang penerjemah telah melakukan kesalahan penerjemahan bukunya mendorong saya untuk memajang tulisan berikut ini. Bertitik tolak dari kasus yang sangat menghebohkan kalangan penerjemah Indonesia dan juga para pejabat pemerintahan serta wartawan luar negeri ini, saya mencoba mengemukakan beberapa gagasan mengenai perlunya Undang-Undang Penerjemahan sebagai langkah untuk melindungi profesi penerjemah, menjamin mutu terjemahan, dan memberikan jasa penerjemahan yang memuaskan klien. Silakan baca tulisan berikut ini untuk mendapatkan uraian lebih lengkap mengenai kasus tuduhan tersebut dan gagasan saya.
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