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Retaining clients seems simple enough on the face of it �' do a good job and they will stay with you, right? Sadly not.

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This post will examine four of the most important characteristics that clients want translators (including you!) to have.

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Whilst there are lots of benefits to working as a freelance translator, there�'s also significant amounts of less-romanticised, hard work that�'s also involved.

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Recent research has suggested that students from an Asian-language background have a greater mathematical ability than English-speaking students.

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The Internet is full of great resources to help you maximise your productivity, and TED is a well-known repository of information.

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It�'s easy to form habits in life, and your freelancing career is no different. Here are four things that you might catch yourself saying to your clients, and why you should stop saying them if you do!

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In the spirit of looking on the bright side, here we ignore the lack of sick pay and focus instead on five prerogatives you can only enjoy as a freelance!

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we look here at five negotiation tricks that are sure to help professional translators get ahead of the competition.

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It might be reasonable to assume that the languages used for websites would correspond broadly with the world's most spoken languages, but new research has shown that that is far from being the case.

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Every person has their own unique fingerprints �' even identical twins do not share the same prints. Interestingly, when it comes to professional translation, it is possible to build up another kind of fingerprint �' one that marks a translation out as having been undertaken by a particular individual.