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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.
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. 💪🏃
Don’t hesitate to join us at community@acolad.com to be given the password!
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. 📹💻
Don’t hesitate to join us at community@acolad.com to be given the password and/or if you have any questions about the roundtable!
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.
Don’t hesitate to join us at community@acolad.com to be given the password and/or if have any questions about the webinar!
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.
Don’t hesitate to join us at community@acolad.com to be given the password and/or if you have any questions about the webinar!
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.
(English subtitles)
Our Tips for Mastering Memsource – How to get started with the basic features
It can never be said enough that computer-assisted translation tools allow you to work more efficiently. You all probably know SDL Trados, but nowadays, you have a wider range of other CAT tools. As new technologies keep on improving, you can now work...
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Good vibes and PEMT for a successful Webinar on November 19th
For those who have been following us since our debuts, Acolad Community often sets up training sessions and webinars in collaboration with our teams of project managers and vendor managers. From new technologies to tips for making the most of CAT Tools, we...
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Our Tips for Mastering Trados Studio – Part.2: Translation Memory & Termbases
One of the challenges a translator has to face is mastering the tools that allow them to work faster and more efficiently. And that's exactly what translation memories and terminology databases are for! 😉 In part one of our tips for mastering Trados...
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