Translating for Canada, eh?
Publisher: eCampusOntario Open Authoring Platform; Pressbooks
Published: 2021-09-30
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Copyright date: 2021 Lynne Bowker
Subjects: Translation and interpretation; Canadian english; Canadian french; Natural language and machine translation; Computational and corpus linguistics; Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries; Canadian english; Canadian french; Translation tools; Translation resources
Description: <p>Do you need to translate for a Canadian audience? We’ve got you covered! This ebook briefly introduces the concepts of translation and localization and then presents a range of free online tools and resources, including term banks, bilingual concordancers, tools for comparing language varieties, machine translation tools, and language portals. In each case, the tools and resources that are presented have a distinctly Canadian flavour to help translators to localize texts into Canadian English and Canadian French. For each tool or resource, there is a short practical exercise to get you started. What are you waiting for, eh?</p>

Do you need to translate for a Canadian audience? We’ve got you covered! This ebook briefly introduces the concepts of translation and localization and then presents a range of free online tools and resources, including term banks, bilingual concordancers, tools for comparing language varieties, machine translation tools, and language portals. In each case, the tools and resources that are presented have a distinctly Canadian flavour to help translators to localize texts into Canadian English and Canadian French. For each tool or resource, there is a short practical exercise to get you started. What are you waiting for, eh?