PD 102: Today’s Translation environment – Tools and procedures to take advantage of!
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Description Today’s “cloudy” environment for translators poses a greater demand on his/her skills, becoming language command just one link in the chain. But this is not supposed to be negative for translators, on the contrary, learning and mastering on them will actually lead to streamlining their skills and broadening opportunities. In this course, attendees will learn about several supporting tools (both for free and fee-based) available to help them better organize and optimize production, improving time-efficiencies and translation quality. This is not intended to be a showcase of third parties’ software, the main aim is to provide translators and reviewers with a bunch of useful and user-friendly technologies that they can seamlessly incorporate in their daily toolbox. Taking advantage of today’s technologies, such as automatic QA checks and working in the cloud, will foster teamworking and thus professionalization of the individual linguist. Main objectives: - Identify translators’ weaknesses and the appropriate tools to deal with them - Understand the cloud and find practical and useful ways of being part of it - Spotting new potential business for translators Course design: Application interfaces will be shown to depict their functionalities. References on how to get them will be given to the attendees. Further development: PD 103: Can you learn to become a reviewer? Guidelines and practical steps to perform the job of a reviewer Target audience Translators who are starting their professional careers and those who want to make more out of their abilities and possibilities. Registration and payment information Click to expand Price: 15.00 USD Click on the buy button on the right to purchase your seat Participation fee includes unlimited access to the recording. How do I purchase the video? To purchase your seat at this session please click on the "buy" button. After your payment is received, your status will be changed to “registered and paid” and an invoice and receipt of payment will be sent to you for your records. How do I access the video? Once the payment is processed you will be able to watch the video here. Created by Luciana Ramos View feedback | View all courses General discussions on this training
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