This text was written by Levent Yildizgoren and originally published on his company’s blog. I decided to republish it on TCZ because it addresses in a lot more detail one of the items tacked in my article Defining project specifications, namely, the importance of informing translators of the purpose of a text. Thanks a lot [...]
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Tell your translator the purpose of your translation
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Freelancer or translation agency?
This post is the result of my first collaboration with José Henrique Lamensdorf as TCZ’s guest writer. The content was inspired by and adapted from a section of his article “10 ways to save money on translation.” His text goes beyond choosing between freelancers and agencies and echoes much of what I’ve said in the [...]
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Resources and planning
There’s no doubt that the most interested party in the success of a translation should be the client. However, there are a number of ways in which you might fail to help improve the translation process for lack of information about it. Or, even worse, you might interfere negatively in the outcome. With this in [...]