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THE TRANSLATION PROCESS – HOW DO WE DO IT?

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In our previous entries we’ve told you what our standard days look like, what we actually translate, what tools (like CAT software here and there) and hardware we use. Now we would like to tell you what we actually do when we translate and what our translation process is. Translation process – first steps Of course, this entry presents some general notes about our translation […]

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TABULA NON RASA, OR WHEN A PAGE IS MORE THAN A PAGE

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We often receive texts with a client’s note that “there’s only five pages, I want the translation done by tomorrow morning.” However, it turns out that these “five pages” are written over from margin to margin in small font size, with narrow line spacing, and, on top of that, in columns. What do we do then? How to calculate translation size? As you can see […]

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HOW TO PREPARE A TEXT FOR TRANSLATION

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This article is about the source texts sent to us to be translated. How to prepare a text for translation so that the process of translation is smooth and undisturbed by unnecessary problems? As a client, you can do a couple of things which will help the us, the translators, achieve an even better quality of the target text. You can save the translator’s time […]