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4 Reasons Why the Travel and Tourism Industry Loves Marketing Translators

4 Reasons Why the Travel and Tourism Industry Loves Marketing Translators

Anastasia Giagopoulou Anastasia Giagopoulou
The tourism industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Millions of people travel each year for busin
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International Advertising Agencies - Approaches to Global Expansion & Opportunities for Translators

International Advertising Agencies - Approaches to Global Expansion & Opportunities for Translators

Nixie Adams Nixie Adams
As businesses have started to expand internationally, advertising agencies have attempted to grow with their clients. Na
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Translators: dos and don'ts

Translators: dos and don’ts

Gert Van Assche Gert Van Assche
4 years ago I decided to create a new type of service for my customers because I figured out they would need, sooner or
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Live ops, updates, and extensions

Live ops, updates, and extensions

Sandrine Guyennet Sandrine Guyennet
I recently had the opportunity to sit on the jury at a game translation competition. At the end of the text file was the
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Voice of the Source

Voice of the Source

Otávio Banffy Otávio Banffy
For all I know, the only language that has one word for every definition is Esperanto. Until we all learn to speak in
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Remote Simultaneous Interpreting

Remote Simultaneous Interpreting

Tea Dietterich Tea Dietterich
Remote Simultaneous Interpreting, or commonly called RSI, is the term used to describe the delivery of simultaneous lan
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QA Distiller 9: your quality ingredient

QA Distiller 9: your quality ingredient

Olesya Zaytseva Olesya Zaytseva
In April 2020, Belgium-based Yamagata Europe released QA Distiller 9.3.5 and announced that the software is free from no
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Do Professional Translators Use Google Translate?

Do Professional Translators Use Google Translate?

Yuliya Kinash Yuliya Kinash
Google Translate and technologies like it have forever changed our lives. With their help, we can instantly translate an
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Freelance Translator Starter Pack

Freelance Translator Starter Pack

Jasmine Heesaker Jasmine Heesaker
Add these free templates to your freelance translation toolkit! You can thank me later. Email Signature Templ
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