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If you are taking a translation test, here’s some unhelpful advice from an editor who is always marking applicants’ test translations.

The Internet is teeming with guidelines regarding skills translators must possess in order to be considered good. As a rule, they all mention the same qualities: perfect proficiency in foreign languages and flawless mastery of the native one, ability to “sense” linguistic subtleties, integration with the language environment, extensive vocabulary, advanced computer skills etc.

Not only do you, some of your friends and your brother Alex consider yourselves to be translators, but so does just about anyone else who has ever studied a language. But getting a degree is really just theory. When that theory comes into contact with how language is really used, this can result in countless mistakes, misunderstandings and conflicts. This article is about how to avoid such situations.

When purchasing goods or ordering a service, we expect them to meet our expectations. But you don’t always get what you pay for, and that is especially the case if you can’t check what you’re buying in advance.

From a communications channel, the Internet has become a medium for storing and processing information, while increasing network capacity and improvements to hardware and virtual technologies have made widespread access to Cloud computing possible.