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IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/1
IL PIÙ CELEBRE SEMIOLOGO ITALIANO E LE SUE ESPERIENZE DI TRADUZIONE/2
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How to make your own Keyboard Layout
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International Keyboard Layout
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Under the hood of Windows Explorer (XP)
Use of Wingloss (Italian)
Useful keyboard shortcuts in Word
Useful shortcuts
Using Yahoo Briefcase to quickly share files and images
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Arabic Web Sites Localization Process
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Trados beginner's guide
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The Language of Inflation
Translating a Brazilian Balance Sheet
Handling Greek and Latin Terms in Spanish Medical Translation
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Going Broke in Brazil
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The Check is not in the Mail-Banking in Brazil
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Language and Choice for Learning/Translating English
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ProZ.com User Manual
Translation of Poetry: Sa`di's Oneness of Mankind Revisited
Accommodation in Translation
Machine translation (MT), and the future of the translation industry
The Business of Translating
Sorry Guys, You Can't Win
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Translation: Back from Siberia
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A Method for Preparing Conference Terminology
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The Importance of Squeezing Some Vacation Time into Your Busy Schedule
La jerarquía de los traductores (¿Cuál jerarquía?)
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – The key to marketing your new website
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International Business Emails - Do and Don't
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Effective ProZ Quotes
Guía práctica para agregar glosarios a multiterm
Customizing the Wordfast template
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Translation's Lost Art
Teaming up with other translators - "if you can't beat them, join them"
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Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Integrating Skype functions into your profile page
Bidding on Proz
Precio, servicio y marketing
Programmi di ricerca su desktop
L'importanza del tempo per un traduttore freelance
Lenguaje Políticamente Correcto ¿sí o no?
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Culture Gap: Examples of English into Indonesian vice versa
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Tame those %*?*&%$$ PDF files
Mic ghid de citire/scriere în Unicode pe ProZ.com
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Personal Finance for Freelancers
ClipMate: A Low-Cost Glossary
AMERICAN VERSUS BRITISH ENGLISH
Mentoring new translators
Globalization, Computer-Aided Translation and Agencies
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ProZ.com site glossary
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Getting the most out of ProZ.com: A guide for translators and interpreters
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Adaptation, Transliteration, Domestication
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Better Game on Translation Business
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Creation of Local Techie Translator-Consulting Pools
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Translation and Text Understanding
Consciousness in Translation - Part Three
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» Serbian Language for Agencies and Outsourcers
By Miroslav Starovlah | Published 06/30/2007 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
The article outlines what the agencies/outsourcers unfamiliar with Serbian should know and establish together with the translator when negotiating a job.
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» THINKING IN ENGLISH, SPEAKING LOCALIZED
By Koral Özgül | Published 06/18/2007 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
GENERIC PROBLEMS IN TURKISH LOCALIZATION RELATED TO THE SOURCE TEXT STRUCTURE
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» The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
By Maria Karra | Published 06/4/2007 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
The Linguistic Conflict in Belgium
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» EXPLAIN or TRANSLATE: a perpetual dilemma for English-language teachers
By Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska | Published 01/15/2007 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
This article outlines the major arguments for and against the use of translation equivalents, rather than explanations in the target language in the teaching practice of EFL teachers.
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» Hints for a good teaching
By Flavia Martins dos Santos | Published 08/14/2006 | Language Specific | Recommendation:
There are many things that can be done to motivate students in class and also to get students closer to the learning. This article gives some ideas on how to do that.
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