Book Title: Translating for Canada, eh?

Author: Lynne Bowker

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Book Description: 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? (This version is out of date. Please consult version 2 for the latest updates.)

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Book Description

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? (This version is out of date. Please consult version 2 for the latest updates.)

Author

Lynne Bowker

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Subject

Translation and interpretation

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Title
Translating for Canada, eh?
Author
Lynne Bowker
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Translating for Canada, eh? Copyright © 2021 by Lynne Bowker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Translation and interpretation
Additional Subject(s)
Canadian English, Canadian French, Natural language and machine translation, Computational and corpus linguistics, Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
Publisher
University of Ottawa
Publication Date
September 30, 2021