New Updated Words Glossaries now available

We have launched our very first selection of Glossaries. These Glossaries were prepared carefully by our Team and they are a result of our day to day work. 

You can browse our new General Translation and Business and Finance Glossaries in our Professional Tools Section. These Glossaries will be updated regularly and we will add more Glossaries to our collection soon.

Our aim is create a platform with useful tools to our fellow colleagues as well giving our clients and the general public an outlook of our work. 

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New Free Collins Dictionary Online

As a team of translators we know the importance of having good working tools and we understand the challenges translators face with charges and fees. So when we learn about a new good and affordable tool we have to let all our fellow colleagues know.

The latest issue of the Chartered Institute of Linguistics Magazine "The Linguist", published an article about the new Collins Free Online Dictionary.  According to that article the dictionary is available since the beginning of the year.

Apart from the dictionary you can also browse the thesaurus.  Unlike other similar services, Collins Online Dictionary is totally free of charge.

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Source: "The Linguist"

*This article was prepared by the Updated Words Team with permission from the Editor of "The Linguist" magazine.

Updated Words in 2012

A new year has started and our Team has a lot of great news for you. 

As a team of translators, it is very important to us keeping an appealing and professional outlook so our clients can be assured of the quality of our services. But we live in the technology era, and creating an active profile will certainly be a plus not only with clients but with the general public.

As linguists, we're always trying to get people to talk about languages and to have a correct knowledge of languages. Unfortunaly, sometimes the Internet is not the best place to find that and the overuse of Internet codes and abreviations ended up leading to a poor knowledge and usage of languages. We want people to think about languages as a way of comunicating and learning things. It is amazing what the correct use of a language can do in our life.

So in 2012 the Updated Words Team created a few activities to promote good language skills and give people good information about those simple things we so often forget about. 

We are planing the publication of some of our Glossaries. These glossaries were gathered by our team in our everyday work. They will be updated regularly as soon as more words are included. For our Facebook Page and Forum we will create several activities that will allow us to interact with people. There you will find polls, answers to people's questions, suggestions for translation of certain words or idiomatic expressions and many more.

To participate in this activities all you have to do is register in our Forum and be a member of our Facebook Page. Let's talk about linguitics, it can be really fun!

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Tradulínguas Online Shop

If you missed out on any of Tradulinguas' conferences or workshops, you can buy the CD-Rom on Tradulínguas' brand new online shop.

There is a lot of great CD-Roms with great information about Translation. To purchase you just have to contact Tradulínguas by email and follow their instruction to proceed your payment. It's very simple ...

It is a great shop for us translators!

*This article was written by Updated Words Team with permission from Tradulínguas

Tradulínguas launches its Legal Translation course

Tradulínguas has launched its Legal Translation course for 2012.  This is a 4-week course, from 7th April to 4th May. 

The objective of this course is to be a useful tool for legal translators. The participants will be able to acquire very important skills that will help them develop their knowledge. Create glossaries and many other interesting and very important aspects of Legal Translation.

The course will be conducted by Dra. Ana Soares. You can enrol until the 2nd of March. 

For more information about the costs and programme of this course, please visit Tradulínguas official brochure.

*This article was written by Updated Words Team with permission of Tradulínguas

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

The Updated Words Team wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year. We wish to continue working with all of you in 2012.

May 2012 be a very happy and successful year for all of you.

Regards,

The Updated Words Team

Inês Lopes Bridges launches her new book on Amazon

Inês Lopes Bridges is an excellent writer. She was born in Setúbal, Portugal,  which is also hometown of Manuel Barbosa du Bocage, one of the greatest Portuguese writers who is also one of her favourite. Inês grew up in Setúbal and in her late teens she moved to London, where she finished her Degree in Creative Writing and a Masters  in Publishing.

Inês has always had a great passion for writing. She started at a very young age. When she was only 13, she started writing poetry in English. She says she wanted to keep her work secret, so she decided to write it in a foreign language.

In 2008 Inês wrote her second romance in Portuguese. The book is called “Isabel”.  It’s the story of a French teacher divided between his duties as a father and a love story from the past.  The whole story will develop around this man, that love and a book that is the way he lives his dreams. This way the writer almost created two books in one playing with the story she was telling and the story told in that other book.

Unfortunately, publishing a book is not easy, and get to a publisher it is very hard. So Inês decided to publish it on a blog. Everyday she would publish a bit of the book. Her aim was not only to show her work to the public but also to receive some feedback from her readers and know their opinion about her work.  Everyday there was new comments and her book was causing all sorts of emotions in her readers.

But now Inês has some more news for us. She has taken a step further and is now launching a digital version of “Isabel” on Amazon Kindle Shop”. Her aim is to raise enough money to invest on publishing the physical version of this great book.

The book is already available on Amazon. All you have to do is click here and you can buy it. The book is not expensive at all (9.99USD) and it can be paid with your credit card.  For those who don’t have a Kindle or any other similar device, you don’t have to worry. You can still buy and read “Isabel”, you just have to download Amazon’s free application Kindle for PC.

70% of the proceedings will be for Inês and she will use it in the publishing of her book.

For her English readers she is also preparing a long narrative poem called “Until the end of the world” that she will make available in Amazon Kindle Shop very soon.