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Angela Masella
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Jun 7, 2020

Hello everybody,

I would like to get my teeth into localization and transcreation.
Can anyone of you put me in the right direction for good books or online courses (not necessarily free ones) on the subjects?

Thanks a lot!

Angela
 
Eleonora Gottardo
Eleonora Gottardo
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Curious too... Jun 19, 2020

Let's try to dig up this post.

I'm very curious about app localization, as I see it's a very busy niche in the translation industry.
Can anybody give us an overview?
Tools, softwares used, work method....

A couple of times I was asked to translate an app and basically I was given an excel sheet with various words and short sentences (which I suppose are the so-called strings). Nobody mentioned the term "localization" but I translated the strings as if I we... See more
Let's try to dig up this post.

I'm very curious about app localization, as I see it's a very busy niche in the translation industry.
Can anybody give us an overview?
Tools, softwares used, work method....

A couple of times I was asked to translate an app and basically I was given an excel sheet with various words and short sentences (which I suppose are the so-called strings). Nobody mentioned the term "localization" but I translated the strings as if I were a local user, keeping in mind what a local user would expect to find in those apps. I suppose this is actually localizing, isn't it? ▲ Collapse
 
expressisverbis
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Proz Transcreation Webinars Jun 19, 2020

Unfortunately, I haven't attended it, but there was a Webinar here at Proz in 2017:
https://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/14705-introduction_to_transcreation_basic_approach_tools_and_requirements

Also, a "Transcreation as a specialisation"... See more
Unfortunately, I haven't attended it, but there was a Webinar here at Proz in 2017:
https://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/14705-introduction_to_transcreation_basic_approach_tools_and_requirements

Also, a "Transcreation as a specialisation" course available on-demand:
https://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/12394-whats_your_angle_transcreation_as_a_specialisation

Check TAUS also:
https://www.taus.net/events/webinars/108-taus-transcreation-webinar

"The Little Book of Transcreation" online:
https://vdocuments.mx/the-little-book-of-transcreation.html


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