
Explore the machine translation software SDS Tragos used by translators and agencies, focusing on translation memories, terminology management, software localization, and project organization for freelancers and agencies.
Explore a Microsoft Word–style user interface with a top ribbon, home and view tabs, and multiple views such as welcome, project, file, editor, and translation memory.
Access the file tab and its options to configure software settings, adjust colors, choose the welcome view (freelancer, language service provider, or corporate), and reset to default if needed.
Create a translation memory by naming it for the language combination and domain, and choose where to store it. Translation memories retrieve translations and suggest matches, even with 50% similarity.
Open an existing translation memory in SDL Trados 2022 to view its content, language settings, and translated segments, enabling reuse of previously translated sentences for UN documents.
Learn how to open documents for translation in SDL Trados 2022 training, choosing between single documents and projects, selecting exact language combinations, loading translation memories, and managing segmentation and abbreviations.
Learn how to export translations in SDL Trados 2022 using confirm options, quick insert, and save target as, with the preview tool and progress indicators showing confirmed and unconfirmed segments.
Import your file in the translation studio, translate with a translation memory, and preserve bold, italics, and underline by copying formatting with tags for Arabic text.
Explore perfect and fuzzy matches in SDL Trados 2022 and how translation memory prompts edits. Learn how longer projects increase suggestions and why the core principle is memory-based matching.
Create and manage multi-file translation projects in SDL Trados 2022, adding word files, setting due dates, and tracking progress from translation to 100% completion.
Organize a translation project by importing and sorting Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio files into dedicated subfolders, creating a new annual report project, and preparing for translation.
Explore advanced file management in SDL Trados, handling non translatable units like dates and numbers with auto substitution and arabic conventions, plus editing source and merging or splitting segments.
Learn to work with documents containing graphical elements in presentations using SDL Trados, extracting text into segments, using translation memory, and exporting a translated target with preserved formatting.
Learn to finalize translated Excel and Visio documents in SDL Trados 2022 by using the editor, leaving reviewer comments, and completing and approving the project to 100%.
Learn how to open documents for sign off, complete the sign-off process, and confirm all translated segments are approved; generate reports to track words, hours, and tasks for freelancers.
Explore how term bases store terms with their equivalents to ensure terminological consistency in large projects and across translator teams, aided by the SDL MultiTerm software included with your license.
Explore the sdl multi term interface to create, open, and manage term bases and entries, and use editing tools, search options, filters, and view customization.
Create a term base by clicking the create term base button or right-click, then name it, set the language combination, and finish the term base creation wizard with multilingual support.
Add terms to the termbase in MultiTerm by inputting English terms with Arabic equivalents, enforcing unified translations to avoid inconsistency, online video header, footer, cover page, and text box designs.
Learn to search your termbase by selecting Arabic as the source language and English for header, then view translations and note the small six-term base's limited advanced options.
Learn to use the term base in Trados by loading a document, loading the term base in project settings, and applying term translations via right-click insert, improving consistency across segments.
Learn to manage links within a document in SDL Trados 2022 by formatting and confirming website URLs, and explore translation memories and suggest dictionaries for smarter translations.
Join this lesson to explore the steel package’s localization software for software and game localization, and learn how translators access on-screen text and code to localize applications.
Explore the software localization user interface, navigate the ribbon, home, view, and tools tabs, customize language and color schemes, and manage projects with messages, translations, spell checker, and term recognition.
Create a new localization project, select the program to translate and target languages (Arabic), generate the source string list, translate with automatic and interactive tools, and generate the localized application.
Start localization by adding Arabic as a target language, generating a string list, and deciding what to localize or hide; then translate, confirm segments, and leverage translation memory.
Automate software localization with SDL Trados Studio by configuring translation memories and term bases, using pre translate to auto translate strings, then review and confirm.
Explore the dialog editor in SDL Trados Studio, filter untranslated strings, translate into Arabic with right-to-left layout, and lock, flip, and verify segments to produce a localized version.
Use the dialog editor to manage breaks with control enter and validate translations by selecting. Generate the target file in Arabic and review the localized output by running the application.
This course is an introduction the new version of SDL Trados, Studio, MultiTerm, and Passolo 2022 - one of the most dominant translation and localization technology tools in the industry.
You'll become familiar with:
the user interface
various actions you can perform for translation and review
ways to organize and export your work effectively
A certificate of attendance is available on completion.
The SDL Trados 2022 training will teach you how to get started smoothly with SDL Trados Studio 2022 (and 2021 because this version has a very similar interface). Upon completion of the course, students will be able to translate any document and use the most important features of Trados. This will allow you to freely work in SDL Trados Studio and export the translated document.
Course content and structure
Part 1
The first part of the course will focus on the rationale behind the structure of Studio 2022.
You'll learn why it has become such a popular tool for translation agencies.
You'll also discuss the basics of translation technology and the components of translation software.
Part 2
During the second part of the course you'll be introduced to the main functions of the software and guided through processes of translation. You'll have access to the projects and resources used in the course.
By completing the tasks following these processes you'll be able to use Studio 2022 to create, complete and deliver your projects.
Part 3
In this part of the course you'll:
import and work on different types of files
discuss export solutions, compatibility with other software and term bases
learn about the options available in QA, alignment, terminology and memory management, statistics, reports etc.
Part 4
In this part you'll be introduced to MultiTerm. It is the terminology management tool that comes with SDL Trados 2022. By the end of this part you'll be able to:
Create a term base
Understand how term bases work
Insert terms and their equivalents
Import and use your term base within SDL Trados 2022
Part 5
In this part you'll focus on SDL Passolo. It is the leading program in software and mobile app localization. By the end of this part, you'll be to:
understand the workflow of SDL Passolo
How the localization process is performed
Localize your app of choice
Export your localized application
Who this course is for
This professional training course is open to:
freelance translators
undergraduate and postgraduate translation students
translation tutors
project managers
DISCLAIMER
This course is not about Translation theory. Students are required to have a background in translation before enrolling into the course. We are going to work on the software and how to use its features and not on the translation process itself.