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Since every penny counts at the beginning of your translation career, during this webinar you will get to know some excellent FREE tools that will make your work-life a lot easier! Among others, we will explore:
• Free CAT-Tools
• Free Administration Tools
• Free Converters
• Free Everyday Tools
Irene Koukia is a freelance translator, outsourcer and business coach. She is also a Trainer and Mentor on Proz.com. She used to be an International Travel Consultant since 1989 working for many international companies as a branch manager. She also used to be a German teacher in her free time. Irene has also taught for two semesters at IEK Naxos in the Hotel F&B Department, providing students with theoretical and practical skills in Tourism. Since September 2008, she changed her career to follow the job she always wanted: Translation. Since Irene had no other relation to Translation business, she managed to grow her business successfully on her own, using and implementing managerial and marketing skills obtained during her former occupation. She also obtained her certificate in Translation in 2010. Currently, she is studying to obtain her diploma as a certified Business Coach. After a lot of study and efforts, she is making a living as a Freelance Translator, working with a large number of clients and linguists all over the world. In 2013, Irene also became a Tutor at Metafrasi School of Translation for the language pair Greek German and a Seminar Presenter for several other companies on topics related to management, human resources, etc.
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Discussion for ProZ.com's 2014 virtual conference for International Translation Day session (2014): Free Tools for Translators
Camila de Castro United States Local time: 04:34 English to Portuguese + ...
Availability of this session in the future
Sep 17, 2014
I would LOVE to know if this session will be available in the future to be watched/listened again by those who won't be able to do it at this date and at this time. It would be incredibly helpful..
thanks!
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Drew MacFadyen United States Local time: 04:34 Spanish to English + ...
Recordings of sessions available to all attendees
Sep 17, 2014
All attendees that visit the event pages during the live hours - even if just briefly, will have access to all of the recorded content from the event at no charge.
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Drew
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Camila de Castro United States Local time: 04:34 English to Portuguese + ...
Thank you !
Sep 18, 2014
Thank you! That was very helpful!
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Bea22 Mexico Local time: 01:34 English to Spanish + ...
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Sep 29, 2014
Hi ! this is simply great, specially if we can be able to access in the recorded events later, since its going to be 2 am in my time !! Thanks a lot Pro Z ..
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Natali Marcovich United Kingdom Local time: 09:34 German to Russian + ...
Thank you very much
Sep 30, 2014
Hi! I appreciate all your information you send to us, Drew)))
Best wishes on International Translation Day!
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Irene Koukia Greece Local time: 11:34 Member (2008) German to Greek + ...
The presentation was very helpful. Thank you! I have a suggestion of a program that is very handy for me. It's a corpus maker called AntConc. It's useful for specialized translations, to gather a lot of texts of a specific topic and see with the glimpse of an eye how one term/sentence has been translated/written before. One example could be recipes: you download 500 of them from the internet (for example) and then you can do a quick search and see how frequent one combination of words... See more
The presentation was very helpful. Thank you! I have a suggestion of a program that is very handy for me. It's a corpus maker called AntConc. It's useful for specialized translations, to gather a lot of texts of a specific topic and see with the glimpse of an eye how one term/sentence has been translated/written before. One example could be recipes: you download 500 of them from the internet (for example) and then you can do a quick search and see how frequent one combination of words is or how frequently one term has been used as opposed to another. ▲ Collapse
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Irene Koukia Greece Local time: 11:34 Member (2008) German to Greek + ...
Another great free tool
Sep 30, 2014
Inca Vallès wrote:
The presentation was very helpful. Thank you! I have a suggestion of a program that is very handy for me. It's a corpus maker called AntConc. It's useful for specialized translations, to gather a lot of texts of a specific topic and see with the glimpse of an eye how one term/sentence has been translated/written before. One example could be recipes: you download 500 of them from the internet (for example) and then you can do a quick search and see how frequent one combination of words is or how frequently one term has been used as opposed to another.
I would like to suggest another software for storing passwords, a true life-saver: KeePass 2. It's a great software that you can handle like a file, which means that you can copy it into your USB stick and bring it with you wherever you go. It can easily store usernames, passwords, URLs, and any other notes, and generate passwords for you. All you need is one password to open it. You can download KeePass he... See more
Happy Translators Day!
I would like to suggest another software for storing passwords, a true life-saver: KeePass 2. It's a great software that you can handle like a file, which means that you can copy it into your USB stick and bring it with you wherever you go. It can easily store usernames, passwords, URLs, and any other notes, and generate passwords for you. All you need is one password to open it. You can download KeePass here: http://keepass.info/download.html Enjoy! ▲ Collapse
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Irene Koukia Greece Local time: 11:34 Member (2008) German to Greek + ...
Password managers
Sep 30, 2014
Cristina Feletto wrote:
Happy Translators Day!
I would like to suggest another software for storing passwords, a true life-saver: KeePass 2. It's a great software that you can handle like a file, which means that you can copy it into your USB stick and bring it with you wherever you go. It can easily store usernames, passwords, URLs, and any other notes, and generate passwords for you. All you need is one password to open it. You can download KeePass here: http://keepass.info/download.html Enjoy!
Thank you Cristina - I am sure it might come handy Best regards & thank you for attending! Irene
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Irene Koukia Greece Local time: 11:34 Member (2008) German to Greek + ...
Happy Translation Day!
Sep 30, 2014
Thank you for attending. I am happy you found it useful! Happy Translator's Day
ElisaFrati wrote:
Thank you very much! That was really interesting and helpful! Above all because I use Linux and it's always difficult to find tools that work well!
Many thanks again! Regards,
Elisa
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Irene Koukia Greece Local time: 11:34 Member (2008) German to Greek + ...
Thanks
Sep 30, 2014
Nikolai Muraviev wrote:
And Happy Translator Day!
Happy Translator Day!
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Nur Ferrante Spain Local time: 10:34 English to Spanish + ...
Super useful, thanks!!
Sep 30, 2014
Thank you very much Irene. Wonderful information.
Happy T-Day
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