I haven’t been posting in a while – but I’m still here! I hope you are enjoying the early days of spring, cherry trees are already blooming here. I’ve been – again – quite busy in this early spring period.…
Game Localization and Device Manual Translation Projects Completed
February is usually a rather slow and calm month for my translation business, but this year I was actually kept busy with very interesting projects. One of them was the localization of a game/app for iPhone and Android devices, a…
Just Completed Big Software (Cloud/Big Data) Project
What a week! I have been extremely busy working on a large software company for one the very biggest IT companies in the world. The theme was mainly cloud/big data, backup and recovery. It was an interesting project, technical but…
Translation Projects for 2014
First of all, a Happy New Year to all! 2013 has been a fantastic year for me as a translator, I feel I have developed so much as a professional. I have been marketing my services more aggressively (launching this…
Back for the New Year
After a few weeks spent in family in France, I’m back for the New Year celebrations in Japan. This has been a fantastic year for me, working on fascinating translation/localization projects, and I am looking forward to some more for…
Current projects
This week, I have again been working on video game localization. This time it was an adventure game, full of humour and language-related jokes. Difficult but extremely fun to localize – I had to use my artistic side a little…
Translated IT/Web Contents for a Major SNS
This week I had the chance and the honor to work on the translation of a framework for one of the most popular SNS out there. It was a very interesting translation, quite technical with a large number of fairly…
Video Game Localization Rush!
Christmas is always an exciting time for gamers from all over the world. This is even more true this year with the release of two new gaming systems: Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4. With these releases and the…
Starting a CAT Tool Help Column
CAT tools are complex and not always programmed as well as they should be. Some of their bugs can be hard to understand and in the end the tools that are supposed to save use time actually cost us some.…
“Default” Terminology/Glossary for IT/Software Projects
Working with a glossary or list of terms is essential to ensure consistent translations. Sometimes, I am asked to use certain glossaries, but most of the time I am allowed to choose freely the terms I use for IT projects.…