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Inspiration & Motivation

How to Find Your Niche As a Translator

Audra De Falco

Now more than ever, translators face downward pressure on rates. Fly-by-night translation agencies seemingly pop up out of nowhere, promising to offer 100s of languages to clients all over the world--

Inspiration & Motivation

How to Find Your Niche As a Translator

Audra De Falco

Now more than ever, translators face downward pressure on rates. Fly-by-night translation agencies seemingly pop up out

CAT Tools & Technology

Google Translator Toolkit is Shutting Down — Here’s How to Rescue your Work

The Open Mic Team

Dear friends! This month we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to promote their all-in-one,

Client Education

How much does translation cost?

Fuschia Hutton

Once you realise you need to get a text or project professionally translated, the first question on your mind is likely

Client Education

3 basic steps to follow when localising keywords

Olesya Zaytseva

To localise keywords effectively, follow three basic stages: translation, adaptation, supplementing and testing. If you

Inspiration & Motivation

Five Reasons Why Freelance Translators Fail at Marketing and How to Fix it

Sherif Abuzid

I know the below may sound hard for you, but stay with me. During the last few days, I had direct one-to-one calls w

Terminology World

Finding the meaning of a tricky term

Érika Batista

"Well well, looks like we have a Sherlock Holmes here", in very poorly written Brazilian Portuguese. Translating is n

CAT Tools & Technology

Translation Office 3000 3D: How to get started

Olesya Zaytseva

Owing a license of TO 3000 3D, I kept struggling with its tools and numerous options that were not all that clear to me.

Food For Thought

Longread: Alice in Machine Translation Land

Pieter Beens

In the sometimes heavily emotional discussion about machine translation, professional translators end up by agreeing tha

Branding & Design

A Year of Change and the Cost of Rebranding

Dmitry Kornyukhov

It might sound silly, but instead of setting a whole bunch of goals for the year I prefer choosing a theme. Last year

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