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In the spirit of using this blog as a forum for sharing ideas, opinions and resources, this week’s post continues the topic of how to maintain your language skills with a selection of resources that I find useful for my own language combination, German to English. I’d also like to invite you to share your [...]

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As translators, making sure that our language skills are top-notch is essential. We not only have to make sure that our source language skills remain up-to-date but also need to keep tabs on the language that we translate into. The pressures and time constraints that we face in our daily lives mean that this can [...]

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I’ve seen this question raised elsewhere in the blogosphere, including at Masked Translator: can marketing material actually be translated or does it need to be created from scratch for a new language and a new market? Opinions on this matter have been varied, ranging from doubts regarding the ethics of translating marketing texts through to [...]

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Twitter translation

by Serena on 20 March 2009

in Buying translations, Marketing

Companies around the world are increasingly using Twitter as an online marketing and networking tool. Twitter is a microblogging site where people post ‘tweets’, short messages of 140 characters or less, and it seems that everyone from Barack Obama to your next-door neighbour is twittering. Myself included.
Twitter is effectively a way of having a series [...]

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Following the success of its 21st Anniversary Conference in 2007, the ITI is holding another conference this year at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at 1 Birdcage Walk, London, from 16 to 17 May 2009.
Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in recent times, particularly in the business world, and this is an opportunity to reflect on how [...]

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