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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--

Marketing

4 Reasons Why the Travel and Tourism Industry Loves Marketing Translators

Anastasia Giagopoulou

The tourism industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Millions of people travel each year for busin

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

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