Today, you are officially invited behind the scenes of our office and we’re going to let you take a sneak peak of our everyday translation work. And life, too. It’s hard to say for sure where and when one ends and the other begins. How does a translator work? It’s safe to say, though, that no day in the life of a translator is like […]
For many people, the end of the year is a time of looking back on the previous 365 days and drawing necessary conclusions. For us too – we like to take a look at some statistics from time to time and see our work in a rear-view mirror. Needless to say, the year 2019 has passed so quickly and we’re quite surprised to see the […]
In the previous entry, I told you what Computer Aided Translation software was and, also, I covered the CAT basics, namely translation memories (TMs) and glossaries. Today I’m going to describe some other useful features of CATs. Since at Translatorion, we operate on Wordfast PRO, I’ll focus on this programme. Projects – where files are gathered First of all, the texts we translate are grouped […]
As we have already mentioned, a majority of translators have cats. Or CATs, actually. What are they? What can they do? What are their functionalities? How do they help? Do they release translators from all their duties and let them fool around and do nothing? The nature of CATs The CAT abbreviation stands for Computer Assisted (or Aided) Translation. So, CATs are programmes which accelerate […]
Previously on Translatorion… we told you about the types of texts that we translate. Today’s article is a follow-up to that, as it presents various representatives of the realm of translators. We’re also going to point out the categories which apply to us. Types of translators As we’ve already said – we don’t mean to pigeonhole anyone but to show you what services a particular […]
In our previous post we told you about the things we like. Today, we’d like to tell you more about types of translation. Read on to check what we translate – and what we don’t. Types of translation When we first meet a new person and they ask us what we do for a living, the usual reaction to our reply ‘We’re translators’ is ‘Ooooh! […]
As we were trying to come up with some subjects to cover in our blog, our friend said she would like to read about the things that annoy, irritate, and drive translators mad. We’ve decided to start with something positive, though. So, today’s post is about what translators like and enjoy most. But if you want to learn more about translators’ dislikes, we’ve got a […]
This is us, Translatorion. Martyna and Paweł, Paweł and Martyna. We are translators, philologists, and linguists. Through this blog, we’d like to show you what it actually means. We live together and we work together. And we believe it pretty lucky to have a job that involves what we love most, i.e. language in its various meanings. Our daily work consists in tinkering with thousands […]