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Country Resources

AFGHANISTAN – AFGHANI Language, Culture, Customs and Business ALBANIA – ALBANIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ALGERIA – ALGERIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ANDORRA – ANDORRAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ANGOLA – ANGOLAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA – ANTIGUAN, BARBUDAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ARGENTINA – ARGENTINIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ARMENIA – ARMENIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business AUSTRALIA – AUSTRALIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business AUSTRIA – AUSTRIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business AZERBAIJAN – AZERBAIJANI Language, Culture, Customs and Business BAHAMAS – BAHAMIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BAHRAIN – BAHRAINI Language, Culture, Customs and Business BANGLADESH – BANGLADESHI Language, Culture, Customs and Business BARBADOS – BARBADIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BELARUS – BELARUSIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BELGIUM – BELGIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BELIZE – BELIZEAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BENIN – BENINESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business BHUTAN – BHUTANESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business BOLIVIA – BOLIVIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – BOSNIAN, HERZEGOVINIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BOTSWANA – BOTSWANAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BRAZIL – BRAZILIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BRUNEI – BRUNEIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BULGARIA – BULGARIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business BURKINA FASO – BURKINABE Language, Culture, Customs and Business BURMA – BURMESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business BURUNDI – BURUNDIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CAMBODIA – CAMBODIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CAMEROON – CAMEROONIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CANADA – CANADIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CAPE VERDE – CAPE VERDIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – CENTRAL AFRICAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CHAD – CHADIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CHILE – CHILEAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CHINA – CHINESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business COLOMBIA – COLOMBIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business COMOROS – COMORAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CONGO BRAZZAVILLE – CONGOLESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business CONGO KINSHASA – CONGOLESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business COSTA RICA – COSTA RICAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business COTE D'IVOIRE – IVORIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CROATIA – CROATIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CUBA – CUBAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business CYPRUS – CYPRIOT Language, Culture, Customs and Business CZECH REPUBLIC – CZECH Language, Culture, Customs and Business DENMARK – DANISH Language, Culture, Customs and Business DJIBOUTI – DJIBOUTI Language, Culture, Customs and Business DOMINICA – DOMINICAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – DOMINICAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business EAST TIMOR – EAST TIMORESE Language, Culture, Customs and Business ECUADOR – ECUADOREAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business EGYPT – EGYPTIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business El SALVADOR – SALVADORAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business EQUATORIAL GUINEA – EQUATORIAL GUINEAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ERITREA – ERITREAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ESTONIA – ESTONIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business ETHIOPIA – ETHIOPIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business FIJI – FIJIAN Language, Culture, Customs and Business

Articles & Papers

• Happy Birthday Learn to say Happy Birthday in 75 languages.
• One More Beer Learn to say 'One more beer' in 50 languages.
• Why can't a computer translate more like a person? Alan K. Melby, 1995
• Advantages and disadvantages of translation memory A Cost/Benefit Analysis, Lynn E. Webb, 1998-2001
• Translation of Proper Names - Part 1 What's in a Name: Juliet's Question Revisited by Verïnica Albin (Freelance medical translator. Teacher of advanced translation, cross-cultural communication, and medical Spanish. ATA's language chair, co-chair, and deputy chair.)
• Translation of Proper Names - Part 2 Does Juliet's Rose, by Any Other Name, Smell as Sweet? by Verïnica Albin (Freelance medical translator. Teacher of advanced translation, cross-cultural communication, and medical Spanish. ATA's language chair, co-chair, and deputy chair.)
• A Little Conversation about Tone and Translation by Prof. Ruy Vasconcelos de Carvalho
• An Easy Translation Job by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• Globalisation and Translation A discussion of the effect of globalisation on today's translation by Nico Wiersema (MA in Translation Studies. Professor of English and Dutch. Specializes is literary translation.)
• Hermeneutics and Translation Theory by Aiwei Shi (M.A. in English Linguistics and Literature Xinzhou Teachers University Shanxi, China)
• Going Broke in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• The Business of Translating by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• His Excellency and His Interpreter by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• What Every Novice Translator Should Know by Antar Solhy Abdellah (Ph.D. on a translation programme for pre-service language teachers Qena faculty of Education, South Valley University, Egypt)
• Translation Tools Today: A Personal View by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil) top
• It's a Small World by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
• Reflections of a Human Translator on Machine Translation or Will MT Become the "Deus Ex Machina" Rendering Humans Obsolete in an Age When "Deus Est Machina?" by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
• Style and Stylistic Accommodation in Translation by Aiwei Shi (M.A. in English Linguistics and Literature Xinzhou Teachers University Shanxi, China)
• The Changing World of Japanese Patent Translators by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA )
• The Language of Inflation Traps in Translating Brazilian Portuguese by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• The Use of Transition Notes in Learning English & Translation by Ibrahim Saad (B.A. in English Language and Literature from Cairo University, M.Ed. from Manchester University, M.A. in Translation from Salford University, Ph.D. in translation from the faculty of Arts, Manchester University Professor at Ajman University (UAE), Teaching Translation)
• Useful Machine Translations of Japanese Patents Have Become a Reality by Steve Vlasta Vitek (Magister of Arts, A freelance technical translator from Japanese, German, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Polish and French into English, USA)
• Wordfast: A quick and inexpensive way to translate by Reed James (Freelance translator, Spanish-English Santiago, Chile)
• Working in Brazil by Danilo Nogueira (Professional translator, editor, writer, consultant, trainer, Brazil)
• Bibliography on the Profession of Interpretation by Heltan Y.W. Ngan, Ph.D. (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Online Dictionaries

• ALBANIAN - ENGLISH
• ARABIC - ENGLISH
• ARMENIAN - ENGLISH
• CHINESE - ENGLISH
• DANISH - ENGLISH
• ENGLISH - ENGLISH
• FRENCH - ENGLISH
• GERMAN - ENGLISH
• GREEK - ENGLISH
• HEBREW - ENGLISH
• HUNGARIAN - ENGLISH
• ENGLISH - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - ENGLISH
• GERMAN - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - GERMAN
• FRENCH - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - FRENCH
• SPANISH - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - SPANISH
• PORTUGUESE - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - PORTUGUESE
• DUTCH - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - DUTCH
• SWEDISH - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - SWEDISH
• ESPERANTO - ITALIAN
• ITALIAN - ESPERANTO
• yourDictionary.com - (yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries in over 300 languages)
• WORD-ONLINE - (It contains links to general language dictionaries that available free in the World Wide Web)

Online Glossaries

• TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING JARGON
• OVER 2200 GLOSSARY LINKS BY FRANK DIETZ - (Acronyms, Advertising and Marketing, Agriculture, Architecture and Construction Trades, Arts and Humanities, Automobiles, Aviation, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Clothing and Textiles, Computers and Software, Culinary Terms, Dentistry, Dialects, Slang, Education, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Environment, Film and Video, Genealogy, General Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias, Hobbies, Insurance, Internet Terminology, Law, Library Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Military, Miscellaneous, Music, Nautical Terminology, Politics, Printing and Typography, Religion, Sciences, Social Sciences, Sports, Technology and Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Translation and Localisation, Transportation and Travel)
• TERM-ONLINE - (It contains links to glossaries from different fields. They are classified primarily according to the field, and secondarily according to the language or languages of the glossary)

Translation Software and Technology

• Atril (D Vu translation memory software)
• Star (Transit translation memory software)
• Trados (Translators Workbench translation memory software)
• Wordfast (Translation memory engine)
• PASSOLO (Localization software tool)

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