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Vous pensez qu’il suffit d’utiliser un logiciel de traduction automatique pour traduire tout et n’importe quoi ? Réflechissez-y à deux fois !

Pourquoi ne faut-il pas faire appel au traducteur le moins cher ? Pourquoi est-il déconseillé de faire baisser les prix aux plus bas ? Si vous voulez obtenir une bonne traduction, choisir le traducteur le moins cher est une grave erreur.

Vous cherchez à faire traduire un document ou un site Internet ? Or, comment choisir votre traducteur ? Quelles sont les qualités et les compétences qui caractérisent un bon traducteur ? Découvrons-les ensemble.

Les mots ne laissent pas d’artefact derrière eux. L’écriture a commencé bien après la communication verbale. Aussi, la question reste d'actualité : quelle est l'origine des langues?

Voici un ensemble de 8 idées fausses sur la traduction en français, et sur l'industrie de la traduction en général. Il est temps de démystifier tout cela.

Olivier den Hartigh is a language translator of English into French. He is an expert in translation and interpreting since 1995, and has a great deal of experience with translation technologies. He has worked for many of the world’s largest brands.

You have an English-French translation project? Find out how to better deal with your translator and get the Best english-french translation possible

A taste for language study, grammar, literature and translation, and more than 25 years as an English into French translator defines a large part of who I am, the way I think, with whom I relate and to whom I dedicate most of my time now. But in the old days, things were very different...

Starting a new translation business is like walking on thin ice. As a freelance translator, you have to avoid some pitfalls...

As a translator, it is worth registering a ProZ profile or being registered with them is a bit like finding yourself in a cattle market. Find out.

You’ve had your website translated into French? But like many companies, you might have used a translation agency to translate your document into French. Why do that? Let me give you 3 reasons why You Should hire a freelance translator

You've hired a translator to have a document translated into French, thinking that all is tickety boo. Suddenly, everything goes so wrong.

You want to expand your business to France? Are you doing the right thing? For example, is your website translated into French just yet?

Are you making the most of your business opportunities by getting your company to become more visible to a worldwide audience?

Think translation and localisation are the same? not at all - they are two different things. Find out why you should be able to tell the difference before ordering your translation project

Automatic translation? Computer-assisted translation? Localisation? Jargon used by the translation industry gives you a headache? Well, nothing that a good old glossary won't cure.

I asked some of my English-speaking friends to share their techniques about various aspects of living in France. I asked them for their advice on bringing up bilingual children. Here’s what they had to say.

Nearly every day, I receive an average of a dozen emails from translators offering their translation services with different language combinations and areas of expertise. Unfortunately, these types of emails are written in such a way that it ensures they very often end up in my spam folder or in my trash folder. Here are some of the tips you could find helpful to increase your chances of getting translation jobs from translation agencies.

The world wide web is a place that most people browse in English. We're looking for information we'd like quickly and easily as possible but we do not give a second thought to pages in other languages such as French.

Qu’est-ce qu’une bonne traduction ? Devant une telle interrogation, le traducteur de métier est saisi de trouble, presque de vertige. Peut-on répondre à une question aussi complexe ? Qui, en effet, dit le bon et le mauvais en ce domaine ? Quelles conditions une traduction doit-elle remplir pour être jugée bonne ? Mais qui est le juge ou l’arbitre ? Quel sage ou quel savant ?