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tranfree issue 14 - 10th May 2000 "1st Quarter Survey & Networking pt I" This tranfree contains...
I hope you find tranfree valuable and enjoy reading it. Please tell all your friends about it. Alex Eames
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A Practical Guide to Software LocalizationBy Bert Esselink Review by Alex Eames Those of you who caught the last four editions of tranfree will already have read a sample of Bert's writing. I let that speak for itself. There are few books available on the subject and Bert's is the best I have come across. He has taken a very complicated subject and broken it up into digestible slices. There are lots of screen-shots and references to useful web sites - and updated information is also available via the publisher's website. Bert has also sent me a few pre-publication chapters of the next edition - in progress - which will be published in the latter half of this year. I can tell you that the second edition will be even better than the first, and is written more with the translator in mind. I feel that getting into software localization is one of the best ways to make yourself recession-proof into the next decade and beyond. You will hear me say this again and again because it is so obviously true! People are buying more and more computers and using more and more software. Not only this, but the translation of online web content is going to be huge - it's already started! You only need one or two clients with large web sites - with content updated daily - and you will have an income for life. Bert's book is a MUST READ if you want to get into this fast growing and very exciting field. Get into it now before the others wake up and you've got too much competition! A Practical Guide to Software Localization is available from www.Amazon.com or www.Amazon.co.uk I strongly recomend you read it if this field interests you at all.
Alex Eames is the founder of translatortips.com, Letter of the Month"I find your book very interesting and useful indeed, and wish there was more help for translators and interpreters. Wish more people wrote books like yours (maybe you don't!). The links to other websites are very useful too!" Fabienne Coupe More info at...
This tranfree's Feature Articles...
New UK Union Being Formed for Translators and InterpretersNUIT - National Union of Interpreters and Translators - UK A tranfree reader told me about this and I spoke to Mr Elfitoury. It is to be a fully-fledged trade union for interpreters and translators in the UK. It is at the very early stages, so I have no idea how successful it will be in its aims - which are basically to improve the working conditions and situation for interpreters and translators. They offered me a position on the committee, but I had to decline because I've go far too much on already. NUIT will not get involved in the regulation of translation and interpreting quality standards like the other existing professional associations. It will be much more focused on the welfare of the members. If you want to be involved, you should go to the general meeting, which is set for 31st of May this year at 18:30 at MSF 40 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UN nr London Bridge Station. Meeting is estimated to last 2 hours. For further information, please call...
Ever Thought about Writing an eBook?Everyone has a book or info-product within them. Translators are writers by nature,
so have a great advantage. http://myks.sitesell.com/tt.html and...
Is Your Web Site Underperforming?Go on - be honest. How many customers did your web site bring you last month? I bet the answer is either... "none", or "not as many as I would like". If you want to transform your web site from the online brochure you can't afford to print into a well-oiled mechanism for bringing in new translation business visit: http://www.sitesell.com/tt.html and Make Your Site Sell!
Interesting & Useful Web SitesLiterary Translation to/from ItalianBIBLIT deals specifically with literary translation to/from Italian. The official language of the list is Italian but messages in English are welcome (provided that they are on topic, of course!). Subscriptions, FAQs and List Archive at... http://web.tiscalinet.it/Handa or http://biblit.listbot.com Queries: handa@tin.it MultilingualWebmaster.comMultilingualWebmaster.com provides information for developers, translators, and managers of multilingual web sites. The site shares information and innovation, and it promotes "best practices" in multilingual web site design. Particularly interesting for translators are the job section and the newsletter that focuses on the latest developments in international web maintenance. Go take a look at... http://www.MultilingualWebmaster.com
Translation Joke Of The MonthWhen Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since many local people can't read.
translatortips.com Linkers FREE Prize DrawI am keen to get as many of you as possible who have your own web sites to link to the translatortips.com website. To encourage you all to put a link to translatortips.com on your own site, I am holding a monthly prize draw for everyone who does this. Each month all those people who have put a link on their own website to the translatortips.com site (and let me know about it) will go into a ballot and the winner gets a FREE translatortips.com product of their choice from the following...
this winner is Amparo Perez Gutierrez - please contact me within the next 3 months to claim your prize from the above selection. If you wish to put a link to the translatortips.com site on your site you can find instructions at the bottom of this edition.
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