Great source of EU-related TMs and TBs
Did you know there are free translation memories and termbases available on all kinds of topics related to the EU? You can find them on the ELRC SHARE repository. It…
Standards, standards, standards
I knew that there were standards for technical requirements for interpreting set-ups and translation in general (the BDÜ published a special edition each on the DIN-versions last year - German…
Negotiating successfully
I have mentioned the ATA's Blog for new translators before, and the latest post is a re-post from copyediting.com about negotiating for freelancers and it is really good! It lists…
Post-Editing
Ever since machine translation has come to the fore in the translation sphere, another "new" area of activity has also started to show up: post-editing. While I'd heard about this…
A little poetry in praise of language diversity
You probably know the story about the Tower of Babel: how humankind, speaking only one language, had come together to build a tower that would reach all the way to…
Harald Töpfer – right?
Oh, the difficulties of translating non-technical texts, such as marketing material or literature! If you've never had to deal with this particular challenge, here's a video using the example of…
Tracking translation progress
Saw this in the latest MultiLingual issue and just had to share it: (c) MultiLingual 2018/07, page 2 I hope, your progress isn't quite as convoluted... ;-) Have a great…
A Glimpse into the Future of Translation
Although this webinar Jost held for the Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference is already five years old, it is still incredibly relevant and surprisingly up-to-date. Enjoy!
The black box myth – The importance of terminology and asking questions
While reading a very informative article about machine translation and whether and how to use it by Alan K. Melby (you can read it here), I was excited to read…