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Showing posts with label Portuguese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portuguese. Show all posts
Mar 27, 2024

Resources for learning European Portuguese (A1-B2)

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When I first moved to Portugal eleven years ago, I resolved to avoid the difficulties I had experienced as an exchange student in Germany ma...
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Jan 7, 2019

"Unprofessional translation" and CAT tools

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Those who came to this post expecting more ammunition for the war against the deprofessionalization of translation by the exploitative pr...
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Jun 17, 2018

Ferramentas de Tradução - CAT Tools Day at Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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The Faculty of Sciences and Humanities held its first "CAT Tools Day" on June 16, 2018 with a diverse program intended to provi...

iPhone Google Maps in translation

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When I first moved to Portugal I had a TomTom navigation system that I had used for a few years when I traveled. Upon crossing a border, I w...
Jul 20, 2017

memoQ Web Search examples for Portuguese

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This week I'm in Lisbon teaching a 24-hour  Boas Practicas (best practice) evening course for translation technology with David Hardist...
Jun 25, 2017

NOW is not the National Organization of Words...

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... but with over 4 billion of them, that interpretation of the N ews o n the W eb corpus at Brigham Young University would be plausible. BY...
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May 27, 2017

CAT tools for weapons license study

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More than a decade ago I found a very useful book on practical corpus linguistics, which has had perhaps the greatest impact of any single t...
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Nov 20, 2016

Sweet Greek olives come to Portugal

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The Good Doctor is widely travelled, and brings back to Portugal many interesting culinary ideas from around the world, using these to compl...
Apr 3, 2015

Free, good quality speech recognition for Portuguese, Arabic and more in your pocket!

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This blog post was produced by voice dictation on my iPhone 4S in a crowded restaurant with a lot of background noise. This evening I ca...
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Jan 25, 2015

SDL conquers translation at Universidade Nova in Lisbon

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The day started inauspiciously for me, with a TomTom navigation system determined to keep me from the day planned at Lisbon's New Un...
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Jan 19, 2015

Two years in Alentejo

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A little over a week ago I celebrated the second anniversary of my arrival in Portugal with friends, who suggested a trip to town for food a...
Dec 23, 2014

SDL Trados Studio in Lisbon – January 22, 2015 – possibilities, experience and expectations

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SDL TRADOS - PAST EXPERIENCES, PRESENT POSSIBILITIES AND FUTURE EXPECTATIONS Thursday 22 January 2015, Auditório 2, piso 3, Torre B,...
Nov 30, 2014

Holiday cookies for the Portuguese, Part 1

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Whoever told me once that "close" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades obviously didn't know squat about baking. Given ...
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Jul 21, 2014

Even more cookies for the Portuguese

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Diabetes seems to be a rather common affliction in Portugal, which is no great wonder given the sweet tooth so many people here have. This i...
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