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The Translation Process
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Translation for the Food & Beverage Industry
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Optimising with Translation Memory
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When the Inuit talk about snow
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Starting your Transcreation Project
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Not just translation! We also provide Audiovisual Services
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QuickSilver’s Proofreading Service
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Metrics for Evaluating Translations
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What if it’s a bad translation?
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Google Translate vs. DeepL
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14
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Translating Marketing Collateral
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Spanish Translation and Text Length
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Urgent Translation Projects
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Language Register: Business vs Colloquial
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Different levels of Translation Quality and Pricing
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Managing the Internal Review Process
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The Cost of Translation
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18
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Accuracy when translating Marketing Collateral
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12
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Establishing what your translation needs are
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4
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Machine Translation: Tips And Tricks
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“Please send us the original files!”
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Successfully Translating Datasheets
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Back translation: What is it? And why?
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Leading Edge Processes in Translation
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24
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How to Translate Keywords
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Why you should never use Machine Translation on your website
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10
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How to Translate a Product Catalogue
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3
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Your Pre-Translation Checklist
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27
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Translation and Desktop Publishing — why pay more?
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20
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Preparing Layouts for Translation (desktop publishing / DTP)
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Mince Pies at Christmas
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Quicksilver Customer Portal
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2
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Mean, median, mode
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25
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Numbers: Decimal comma or decimal point?
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18
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Understanding Ethics and Translation
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11
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Medical Translation: What you need to know
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Cost Saving: Translating PowerPoint
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Translation for the Housing Sector
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14
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What can I do internally to Streamline the Translation Process?
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Translating for the Pharmaceutical Industry
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Working Remotely in the Translation Industry
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The Pitfalls of Translation for Financial Services
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10
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How to evaluate a Translation Agency
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2
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Why you should Localise your Website
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26
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Translation Memory, Copyright and Data Protection
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19
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Is Translation a Commodity or a Service?
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12
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Translators without Borders needs you!
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Translation Memory: Benefits and Pitfalls
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29
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Building a Retroactive Translation Memory
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21
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14
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Bilingual RTF files and how to use them
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Translating Marketing Materials
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30
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How Getting The Right Financial Advice Can Help Your Business Grow
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28
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Translation for Government & NGOs
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23
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Fire Safety Translation
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16
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Pharmaceutical Translation
June
9
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Why Relying on Distributors for Translation is Often a Bad Idea
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2
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Internal review: preference vs. correction
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26
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Post-Editing Machine Translation: Are translators becoming proofreaders?
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19
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Post-Editing Machine Translation
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12
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Freelance translation with QuickSilver Translate
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5
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Localising Arabic: Arabish
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28
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Translating Arabic
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22
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The objectives of a translation
April
15
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Cut costs! Integrated Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Translation
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What is Chinese?
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1
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Translation Memory: Optimising the translation process
March
25
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Transcription services that match your needs
March
18
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Why you need a transcription!
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4
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Transcription services at QuickSilver Translate
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25
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New service! Interpreting for online meetings
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3 Easy Ways to Legitimately Get Fast Cash
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12
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The Strange History of the Christmas Tree
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23
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2020
Christmas Vocabulary
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16
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2020
New uses for the @-sign
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9
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2020
Translation, localization, globalization… what’s the difference?
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2
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2020
Language localization
November
24
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2020
Author, Anonymous
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21
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2020
Machine Vs Human (Translators!)
October
14
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2020
What it takes to be a translator
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8
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2020
Discover Translation: 5 Myths!
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2
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2020
Discover Translation
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30
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Don Quixote and Google Translate
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25
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2020
Naming Traditions Around the World
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23
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2020
Academic Editing and Translation
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21
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2020
An Egregious False friend
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18
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2020
Translating Your Name into a Foreign Language
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16
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Why did Peking change to Beijing?
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14
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¡Hala Madrid! Say what?!
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11
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2020
Natural Language Processing: Implications
September
9
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2020
Is 2020 Jumping the Shark?
September
4
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2020
Uses of Natural Language Processing
September
2
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2020
WordPress and WPML – how to obtain wordcounts
August
31
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2020
Speed in Translation
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31
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2020
Natural Language Processing
August
26
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2020
When is a less-than-perfect translation acceptable?
August
24
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2020
A Sinister History
August
19
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2020
Design and Layout for Translation
August
17
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2020
Should I translate in-house or outsource it?
August
14
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2020
Chinese Country Names and Their Meaning
August
12
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2020
European vs Latin American Spanish
August
11
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2020
Adverbs: mind or body?
August
10
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2020
The Names of Nature: Urban Flora and Fauna
August
7
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2020
What do the names of countries mean?
August
5
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2020
The business of translation
August
3
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2020
Why some words are more memorable than others
July
31
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2020
Religiolects: Beyond Yiddish
July
28
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2020
What is Added Value in Translation?
July
24
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2020
The Strange Case of the Chivalric Romance
July
22
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2020
The Homeric Question
July
20
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How to translate in InDesign
July
17
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2020
What does “Perfidious Albion” mean?
July
15
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2020
The FC Barcelona Anthem
July
13
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2020
Stages of translation
July
10
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2020
Language development in kindergarten
July
8
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2020
Language Development in Babies
July
7
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2020
Who is the translation really for?
July
6
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2020
Why is it so easy to criticise a translation?
July
3
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2020
Better than I, or better than me?
July
2
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2020
Building a multilingual website? Know the lingo!
July
1
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2020
Where do new words come from?
June
30
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2020
Types of translation projects
June
29
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2020
Language Isolates
June
26
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2020
The Assembly Calculus
June
25
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2020
Should we translate tapas?
June
23
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2020
Preparing your Annual Report
June
22
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2020
We are Family! Language Families
June
19
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2020
Translating large technical documents
June
18
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2020
The History of the word ‘Slavery’
June
17
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2020
Uniquely interesting languages
June
16
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2020
Translation Style and Tone
June
15
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2020
One-word Oxymorons
June
12
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2020
Quirky languages of the world!
June
11
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2020
European vs Brazilian Portuguese
June
10
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2020
Idiocracy, government by idiots
June
9
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2020
The role of the internal reviewer
June
8
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2020
Paraprosdokians, because we all love a twist
June
4
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2020
Are you up on Coronavirus Terminology?
June
3
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2020
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
June
2
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2020
Technical glossaries and termbases
June
1
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2020
Your neural Language Pathway is 25 million years old
May
29
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2020
The Etymology of the word ‘Vaccine’
May
28
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2020
How can I reduce translation costs?
May
27
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2020
Who is the Bad Guy?
May
26
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2020
Translation Memory FAQs
May
25
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2020
What is Translation Memory?
May
22
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2020
English: the Lingua Franca of Science (2)
May
21
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2020
Consistency and Quality with Machine Translation
May
20
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2020
Etymology of the word Scum
May
19
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2020
Markets and Languages
May
18
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2020
English: the Lingua Franca of Science
May
15
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2020
Traditional or Simplified Chinese?
May
14
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2020
What should I be using machine translation for?
May
13
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2020
Two Famous Etymologists
May
12
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2020
The Deaf Community of Martha’s Vineyard
May
11
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2020
SEO Tools for WordPress
May
7
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What is Multilingual SEO and how to manage it
May
6
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2020
Coronavirus pandemic: Can we learn from the Plague?
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5
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A Brief History of Sign Language: Part Two
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4
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Translating a Sacred Tree Bark?
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1
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The Etymology of Privilege
April
29
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Grammatical Gender: a mystery to many!
April
28
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A Brief History of Sign Language
April
27
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Lost in Translation: When Translators Fail!
April
24
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2020
Janus Words: Duality and contradiction
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20
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Nicaraguan Sign Language: Linguistic Implications
April
17
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The wonderful world of Etymology
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15
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Nicaraguan Sign Language: A linguistic phenomenon
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13
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Sushruta Samhita: the first surgical manual
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10
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How to translate WooCommerce sites and expand your market (5)
April
8
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2020
How to translate WooCommerce sites and expand your market (4)
April
6
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2020
How to translate WooCommerce sites and expand your market (3)
April
3
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2020
How to translate WooCommerce sites and expand your market (2)
April
1
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2020
How to translate WooCommerce sites and expand your market
March
30
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2020
Learn how to spot fake news
March
27
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2020
Remote learning in the time of COVID-19
March
25
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2020
Staying sane in self-isolation
March
23
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2020
Some interesting facts about Quarantine
March
20
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2020
Learn a foreign language at home
March
18
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2020
Why is Coronavirus called Coronavirus?
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16
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How do languages develop?
March
13
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2020
Gairaigo, Japanese Loanwords
March
11
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In-house vs. outsource
March
9
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2020
Bilingual Babies
March
6
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Loanwords – Give them back!
March
4
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Speaking Zoomer (Neural Machine Translation)
March
2
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2020
Why do only human apes ask questions?
February
28
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2020
How to learn a second language… as an adult
February
26
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Language Learning with Apps
February
19
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Go multilingual with WordPress WPML
February
17
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Do you Dab or Vossi Bop?
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14
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The Importance of Language in eCommerce
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12
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Machine translation and the future for translators
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10
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Translating idioms… even the tricky ones!
February
7
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2020
Who are the Language Martyrs?
February
5
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What is multilingual SEO?
February
3
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False Friends
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31
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British English vs. American English
January
29
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2020
History of Newspapers in India
January
27
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2020
Language Localisation
January
24
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2020
Quirks and Difficulties of Phrasal Verbs
January
22
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The etymology of chocolate
January
20
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2020
The differences between Indian and British English
January
17
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2020
How to speak Guatemalan Spanish like a local!
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15
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U.S. Credit 101 for U.S. Immigrants
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13
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Was Shakespearian English better?!
January
10
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Is there such a thing as correct English?
January
8
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What is Sworn Translation… and why it matters!
January
3
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Christmas traditions around the world
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5 Ways to Improve Content Marketing in Education
December
20
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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2019
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18
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How to Translate an Illustrator File
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17
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How to translate a web page in Firefox
December
13
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Managing preferences in translation
December
11
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2019
How to translate a contract into Spanish
December
9
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2019
How to manage financial translations
December
2
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2019
How to translate from Catalan to English
December
2
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Translation services for engineering
November
29
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How to translate technical datasheets into Spanish
November
29
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2019
How to translate an Excel spreadsheet
November
27
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How to create a Glossary or Terminology Database
November
27
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How to translate a website into English
November
25
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2019
How to translate a Powerpoint presentation
November
25
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How to translate a WordPress site into Spanish
November
22
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2019
How to translate a website into Spanish
November
21
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How to translate a business report
November
21
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How to translate blog posts
November
21
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How can I translate company reports?
November
14
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How to translate a brochure
November
13
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How to translate my website
November
12
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How can I make PHP website multilingual?
November
7
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How to translate technical manuals
November
4
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2019
Will AI replace human translation?
October
28
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Differences between Spanish and Catalan
October
28
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2019
How to do financial translation into Spanish
October
24
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2019
10 Tools for Professional Translators
October
22
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How to find translation companies in Barcelona
October
20
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How to translate official documents
October
19
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Why QuickSilverTranslate.com?
October
14
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Language and the law
October
13
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Increasing traffic through web content translation
October
11
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Which is the easiest language to learn?
October
11
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How to handle large volume translation projects
October
8
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3 Things to Consider When Expanding into Foreign Markets
October
8
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How to build a multilingual website
October
7
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Challenges of translation from English into Spanish
October
7
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Top 3 skills a translator should have
October
2
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Is automatic translation for ecommerce good enough?
September
27
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The difference between translation and interpretation?
September
23
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American or British English: does it matter?
September
18
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5 tips to obtaining a good translation into French
September
12
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2019
How to count words for translation
September
9
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The challenge of translating from English
September
9
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Boost sales with SEO and localisation
September
3
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Why is translation into Japanese so hard?
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3
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4 ways to boost localization for global business
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The risks of automatic translation
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