Glossaries without borders - translate better and faster

By attending this webinar you are contributing to the relief efforts in Haiti and Chile. The full proceeds for the presenter from this presentation will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, an organization that is helping in Chile and Haiti.

What is it about?
It is about using glossaries to:
- make your work as a translator more efficient, saving time and making more money
- improve the quality of your translations and get more customers and better pay because of that.


What will I get out of it?
1. Reasons why you should use glossaries in your daily translations
2. Practical tips on what kind of terms you should have in your glossary


Topics:

1. Why create glossaries?

2. What to have in a glossary? Types of terms that you should add

3. How glossaries save time and money? Using CAT tools

4. What to have in a glossary? Twenty categories of terms that you should add


What’s included?
A copy of the PowerPoint slides will be provided to remind participants of the key points and lessons learned.

The recording of this session will be available for all webinar attendees.

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Recommendations:

• You need an Internet connection and a separate telephone, so that we can talk to you whilst presenting the training.
• For the visual section of the training course, we recommend that you have a 64kbps link. This means using an ISDN line or Broadband.
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Silvio Picinini    View feedback | View all courses

Bio: Silvio has been an experienced freelance translator for 17 years, and like all of us, has been looking for more efficient ways to translate. Besides being a freelancer, Silvio has worked as an in-house translator for Oracle, in the United States, for 5 years. Silvio has also experience working for Lionbridge Technologies, a very large language service provider, in positions related to terminology and quality. Silvio lives in Colorado, USA, with his wife and son. He has three dogs: Lex, Niko and Chewbacca, and likes puns.