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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Warning-Disclaimer | |
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| Welcome! | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How to Get the Most Out of This Handbook | |
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| The Uses of This Handbook | |
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| The Nature of Translation | |
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| For Whom Is This Handbook Intended? | |
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| Historical Overview of Translation | |
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| Translating the Bible | |
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| Translation in the East-Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism | |
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| Translators Opening the Door to the Modern World | |
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| Translation in the New World | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Requisites for Professional Translators | |
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| The Well-Rounded Translator | |
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| Good and Bad Translation Habits | |
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| Translator's Self-Evaluation | |
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| Translator Skill Levels | |
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| Translation Problems | |
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| Generic Language Problems | |
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| Spanish | |
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| German | |
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| French | |
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| Russian | |
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| Japanese | |
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| Chinese | |
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| Italian | |
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| Portuguese | |
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| Arabic | |
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| Hebrew | |
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| Translation Techniques | |
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| Preliminary Considerations | |
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| Effective Approaches | |
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| Translation, Computers, and the Internet | |
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| Computers and Related Equipment | |
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| Machine Translation vs. Human Translation | |
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| Translation Memory | |
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| Localization | |
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| The Uses of the Internet for Translators | |
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| Dictionaries, Reference Literature, and Terminology Management | |
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| Dictionaries | |
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| Reference Literature | |
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| Terminology Management | |
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| Types of Terminology | |
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| Creating New Terminology | |
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| Key Translation Areas | |
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| Advertising | |
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| Aerospace | |
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| Automotive | |
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| Business/Finance | |
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| Chemistry | |
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| Civil Engineering | |
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| Computers | |
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| Electrical/Electronic Engineering | |
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| Environment | |
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| Law | |
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| Medicine | |
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| Military Subjects | |
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| Nautical Subjects | |
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| Patents | |
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| Social Sciences | |
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| Telecommunications | |
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| How to Operate Successfully as a Freelance Translator | |
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| Financial Issues | |
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| Translator/Client Relations | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Sources of Translation Work | |
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| Translation Companies | |
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| Direct Sources of Work | |
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| Networking | |
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| A Career as an In-House Translator | |
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| Level of Expertise | |
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| Translation Training | |
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| The Right Language | |
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| Multiple Languages | |
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| Pros and Cons | |
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| Training Programs | |
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| Oral Interpretation | |
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| The Pros and Cons of Interpretation | |
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| Closing Remarks | |
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| Translators' Organizations | |
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| Translation: A Lifelong Career | |
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| Dictionaries and Reference Literature | |
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| General English Language References | |
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| General and Specialized Dictionaries in Languages Other Than English | |
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| Afrikaans | |
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| Albanian | |
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| Amharic | |
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| Arabic | |
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| Azerbaijani | |
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| Basque | |
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| Bengali | |
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| Bosnian | |
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| Bulgarian | |
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| Byelorussian | |
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| Cambodian | |
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| Catalan | |
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| Chinese | |
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| Creole | |
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| Croatian | |
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| Czech | |
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| Danish | |
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| Dutch | |
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| Esperanto | |
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| Estonian | |
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| Farsi (Persian) | |
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| Finnish | |
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| French | |
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| Georgian | |
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| German | |
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| Greek | |
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| Hebrew | |
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| Hindi | |
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| Hungarian | |
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| Icelandic | |
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| Indonesian | |
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| Italian | |
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| Japanese | |
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| Kazakh | |
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| Korean | |
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| Kurdish | |
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| Lao | |
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| Latin | |
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| Latvian | |
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| Lithuanian | |
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| Macedonian | |
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| Malay | |
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| Nepali | |
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| Norwegian | |
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| Pilipino/Tagalog | |
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| Polish | |
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| Portuguese | |
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| Romanian | |
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| Russian | |
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| Serbian | |
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| Serbo-Croatian | |
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| Slovak | |
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| Slovene | |
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| Somali | |
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| Spanish | |
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| Swahili | |
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| Swedish | |
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| Tatar | |
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| Thai | |
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| Turkish | |
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| Ukrainian | |
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| Uzbek | |
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| Vietnamese | |
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| Yiddish | |
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| Yoruba | |
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| Where to Find Dictionaries | |
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| Foreign-Language Software Sources | |
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| Sources of Translation Work | |
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| U.S. Translation Companies | |
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| U.S. Translation Companies by Location | |
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| U.S. Government Agencies | |
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| Major Organizations | |
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| Major Companies | |
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| Translation Courses and Programs | |
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| Translator Organizations | |
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| American Translators Association (ATA) Chapters and Other Groups | |
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| International Federation of Translators (FIT) | |
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| Translator Accreditation | |
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| Professional Periodicals for Translators | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |