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CAT Tools & Technology

Introducing Smartcat’s new team management platform

Dmitry Kornyukhov

Dear friends! This April we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to promote their online platform where translators and clients can connect and collaborate. They als

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

CAT Tools & Technology

Introducing Smartcat’s new team management platform

Dmitry Kornyukhov

Dear friends! This April we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to promote their online platf

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

Lifestyle & Health

The Great Outdoors

Nina Gruenewald

One of my favourite aspects of working as a freelance translator is that I can work wherever I want, as long as it is wi

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

CAT Tools & Technology

Ecosystem growth, product updates, partnerships: Smartcat in 2017

Dmitry Kornyukhov

Dear friends! This January, February and March we’re partnering up with our friends from Smartcat to prom

Food For Thought

Why a Dutch translation pays off

Pieter Beens

The Netherlands is only a small country on the world map, having an area of about 41,500 square kilometres and among the

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