Let's check as simple as possible what translating using CAT tools looks like (with or without a cat supervising your work, the choice is yours).Īt the beginning of the translation project, the linguist or a project manager prepares a translation package, first loading a document or several documents into the CAT tool. No, no, you are talking about machine translation, which is very different from the translating we are talking about today. “Yes, of course, that's what the computer translates instead of a translator, right? I also use CAT tools, especially Google Translate!”

Lesson 2: It serves us right – we shouldn’t ignore the main translation rule: context, context and once again (well done, you’ve guessed it) context.ĬAT or Computer-Assisted Translation in the translation world are the tools for computer-aided translation. “Yes, of course, it’s a cat!” you may answer and almost spill your coffee due to the absurdity of our question.Īnd now, here are two lessons of today's introduction:

You will nowadays hardly find a translator who wouldn’t know what CAT is.

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