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Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files

The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive to translate are in PDF

March 20, 2012

What Is the Dzongkha Language?

Dzongkha, or Ngalopkha as it is occasionally known, is the official language of Bhutan. Bhutan is a small landlocked country on the continent of Asia. A mountainous country due to

March 19, 2012

Indigenous Translators: Between Language and Politics

America (here including North and South America) is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. It includes no less than 35 sovereign nation-states, 1 Commonwealth and at least

March 16, 2012

Macedonian, Bulgarian, or Serbian…

Macedonian is not the same language as Bulgarian or Serbian… Macedonian is a language belonging to the group of South Slavic languages, which includes Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian. One

February 21, 2012

Linguistic Pre-edition

Pre-edition, as we have seen in other posts, may include several procedures: a text can be pre-edited both from the point of view of the format as well as the

February 20, 2012

Literary Translations

Now that machine translation is becoming more and more prominent in the world of translation, I would highlight the complexities of the translation of literary material, where the subtleties of

February 14, 2012

Planning Large Projects

Translating a paragraph of 100 words might take 10 minutes or half an hour, depending on the complexity of the text. Following the same logic, translating an entire page of

February 6, 2012

Belarusian or Russian?

Belarusian and Russian are two Slavic languages that, though they share the same root, are very different from each other. Belarusian is the official language of the nation that today

February 2, 2012

Azerbaijani Is Not the Same as Turkmen or Uzbek

In addition to the Turkic languages of Uzbek and Turkmen, we would also like to provide a brief introduction to Azerbaijani. These three languages all belong to the same family

January 19, 2012

How Do We Quote a Subtitling Project?

Subtitling services can be difficult in terms of making a quote, especially the details of what needs to be done are not very clear. It may be that sometimes the

January 17, 2012

MS Project for Translation Projects

Microsoft Project is a very useful tool for planning and monitoring projects of all kinds. To make full use of its benefits to efficiently apply it to translation projects, you

January 12, 2012

Do They Speak the Same Language in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan?

I recently wrote about Uzbek, the Turkic language mainly spoken in Uzbekistan, but which is also spoken in Turkmenistan. Now I would like to briefly discuss Turkmen, another Turkic language

January 5, 2012

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