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10 Tips for Buying Translation Services
Whatever your pressing needs are for professional translation services, it is best that you know what to look for when considering a translation service provider.
Tess Whitty
Apr 6, 20143 min read
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Things to Avoid When Translating a Website
This is a guest post by Jenny Brown, a freelance writer. She loves photography, travelling and learning new languages. Translating a website isn’t as simple as putting the information into a translation tool and copying and pasting the result, and doing this without checking the translation thoroughly can have catastrophic results, often losing the meaning of the text or even changing it completely. The writing on your website is written specifically to give information a
Tess Whitty
Mar 10, 20143 min read
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A Presentation of Swedish Translation Services
First of all I would like to thank all my loyal readers of this blog. Many of you know that I am an English into Swedish translator with the company Swedish Translation Services. Here is a short presentation of Swedish Translation Services as a business. Background of Swedish Translation Services Swedish Translation Services was founded in 2003, when I decided to leave my career in international marketing and focus on my passion, languages. My life situation had made me bilin
Tess Whitty
Jan 23, 20134 min read
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Things to Think of When Developing Localization-Ready Websites
Yesterday I attended a seminar held by Utah Technology Council here in Salt Lake City. The presenter was Adam Wooten from Globalization Group, talking about how to develop localization ready websites. His key point was to prepare in advance to ensure that the localization process will be easy and cost-effective. To correct an error for one language, before going global can be $1000, but $25,000 to fix after having launched the site in 25 languages. In order to prepare well,
Tess Whitty
Apr 22, 20112 min read
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The Role of Translators in the Software Localization Process
In software localization projects, we translators are expected to have complete command of the tools required, know the market and a lot of products, assume our own position in the process, and understand the constraints involved in ever shorter production cycles. For this reason that most translators working in localization do so through intermediary translation bureaus, which are often specialized localization companies. Here's what the role of translators in the software l
Tess Whitty
Nov 19, 20103 min read
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