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Whether it is about digital innovation, tips to run your career as a freelance, or simply testimonies about digital nomadism, we aim to cover every matter to help all translators out.

During our external events, we organise round tables and conferences about these topics that you experience every day and that are a real concern sometimes. 

Roundtable – 20.05.2022

Building trustful partnerships between translation agencies and freelancers

The relationship between project managers and freelance linguists is one of the pillars of the modern translation industry. We are convinced that  goodwill and trust enable you to work on your projects under optimal conditions. We gathered two Acolad representatives and two freelance partners for a roundtable on May 20th about this topic:

Building trustful partnerships between translation agencies and freelancers

They shared their experiences and tips on the following subjects: The dos and don’ts when applying to agencies, applying as a freelance linguist: Acolad’s requirements regarding profiles, building a trustful relationship with Acolad

Webinar – 22.03.2022

QA procedures at Acolad

The QA training hosted by senior translator Lisa Prevett covered what a QA is and why it was so important in terms of Acolad’s quality standards and expectations. We looked at: the types of errors you might encounter when running a QA, how to handle them and how they can help you to ensure top quality when delivering a project, how to attach and run the QA Checker, tips & tricks for working efficiently with the QA in Studio both for conventional translations and post-editing jobs.

Meetup – 2.04.2021

Health & Freelancing

Freelance translator & interpreter Luna Jungblut from Artlife Translations (also author of the exercise eBook Introduction to Self-Care) joined us to share tips for maintaining your physical and mental health as a freelance. 💪🏃

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Roundtable – 12.11.2020

Subtitling & Multimedia Translation

We talked about subtitling for movies and corporate videos with freelance translator and subtitler Silvia Gallico for our first online round table. We discussed the software used, the differences with “traditional” translation, and how to gain subtitling experience. 📹💻

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Webinar – 8.07.2020

Machine Translation & Post-Editing of Machine Translation at Acolad 

For our 2nd webinar, Lisa Prevett, translator, editor and proofreader at Acolad, talked about Machine Translation and PEMT. We talked about the history of machine translation, Acolad’s engines and what is post-editing. We also went through the most common mistakes and feedback from our team of post-editors at Acolad. 

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Webinar – 10.02.2020

Optimizing your Projects with SDL Trados: Glossary Converter & Time-Saving Tips 

For our 1st webinar, we went through some of the functionalities of SDL Trados’ broad range of plugins with Lisa Prevett, translator, editor and proofreader at Acolad. We talked about Glossary Converter, shortcuts & other time-saving tips, as well as many filters, such as Find/Replace and Source & Target. 

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Translator Meetup – 18.06.2019

Round table on PEMT

This round table on post-editing & machine translation was led by Yoann Auffret, an internal translator from Acolad and Lamis Mhedhbi, computational & linguistic Project Manager from TextMaster. 

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