Translation articles

Strategies of an intellectual pieceworker

The professional profile of a freelance translator is indeed one of an intellectual pieceworker. You rarely get paid by the hour, and even if you do, the time frame allocated to a project is mostly limited. What this boils down to is...

Useful software tools for language professionals

In this article I would like to introduce a few free software tools that I consider to be true efficiency boosters. I will only cover products that I have been using long enough to appreciate the benefits they bring. Since this section focuses on...

Using CAT tools efficiently

This day and age, the use of Computer Aided Translation Tools is a must for any professional translator. Translation agencies rarely award jobs to suppliers without CAT capabilities, and as one of my fellow translators once put it in a forum post, “...