MKD Translations

09/07/2016

http://wbt.com/dalai-lamas-translator-on-why-compassion-is-in-everyones-best-interest/

(NEW YORK) -- Thupten Jinpa is a former monk turned family man, an author and, for the past 30 years, the Dalai Lama's chief English translator. A Buddhist scholar, Jinpa created a course at Stanford Medical School called Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), which teaches people a series of medita...

25/06/2016

https://www.novinky.cz/muzi/406307-cinske-restaurace-stale-nabizeji-jidla-ztracena-v-prekladu.html

Kdyby slavný michelinský průvodce po restauracích uděloval hvězdičky za neúmyslně brilantní názvy pokrmů, pak by klidně mohla být nejlepší na světě restaurace v čínském městě Pching-jao. Velká tabule před vchodem propaguje některá z jejích nejchutnějších jídel s anglickými překlady: „V misce”, „Ty h...

27/03/2015

https://altranslations.co.uk/blog/certified-translation-business-over

A legislative proposal published on 24 April 2013 by the Commissioner Viviane Reding in the European Parliament means that certified translation is no longer necessary for birth certificates, marriage certificates, criminal records, academic certificates, certificates from the Companies Registry and…

14/03/2015

http://www.slate.fr/story/11269/pourquoi-certains-noms-de-pays-sont-ils-masculins-et-dautres-feminins

Et pourquoi Israël n'a pas d'article?

14/12/2014

TIPS & TRICKS
How to run a quick search for some particular text in a Trados project when it is made of 125 sdlxliffs that someone could not (or simply forgot to) merge into one? The search tool in the application will not help, as it only helps to run a search within one file.

Solution: Total Commander (available for free)

Just open the folder in Total Commander (in case of a project package, unpack it like a normal .zip), use the “search for” option (ALT +F7) and the “find text” field with UTF encoding to go through all the sdlxliffs in the folder. This should work just fine.

29/11/2014

http://www.change-tracker.com/
Try this amazingly simple tool for tracking changes in translated bilingual documents. It’s absolutely free and I totally recommend it!

ChangeTracker is a freeware for tracking changes in bilingual documents. Compare translations in TTX, TMX, TXML, SDLXliff, MemoQ Xliff, XLZ, and tagged MS Word documents. Visualize the edits to speed up self-proofreading, streamline the linguistic quality assessment, and easily provide the evidence…

20/06/2014

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/domaci/277573-vonna-koupel-v-ziravine-chyba-v-prekladu-muze-mit-fatalni-dopad/

Praha – Knihu Dárky z přírody, která nevědomky nabádala na domácí koupel v žíravině, vydavatelství stahuje z oběhu. Recept se týkal kuliček do koupele. Za záměnu původní jedlé sody za hydroxid sodný může špatný překlad. Upozornila na něj jedna ze čtenářek, která chemii vystudovala. Část výtisků ale…

30/05/2014

http://www.businessinsider.com/european-maps-showing-origins-of-common-words-2013-11

These are amazing for studying etymology.

23/05/2014

17/05/2014

04/05/2014

Some of the best on-line resources for freelance translators:

http://www.translationjournal.net/journal/00links.htm

Links to translators' WWW resources

30/09/2013

Let's celebrate! :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Translation_Day

International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators. The celebrations have been promoted by FIT (the International Federation of Translators) ever since it was set up in 1953. In 199...