Updated Words Closed during the Festive Season

Updated Words will be closed during the festive season. Our Team will be on holidays and we won't be available from the 20th December 2013 to the 20th January 2014. We will reopen on Monday, 20th January 2013. During this period we will have limited access to the Internet, but we won't be available to work.

We wish all our clients and colleagues a happy festive season. We also wish you a very happy and successful 2014.

Regards,

Updated Words

Tradulínguas launches its Biotechnology Translation Course for 2014

This is another great e-Course that Tradulínguas has just announced. It is a Biotechnology Translation course where participants will be able to learn important concepts about the cell, biotechnology and technological processes.

The course will start on the 19th of February 2014 and it will go for 10 consecutive days, until the 29th of February. It will be conducted by Prof. José Matos.

For more information about this fantastic course, please follow the link to its Official Brochure.

Updated Words Team

*This article was prepared by Updated Words with permission from Tradulínguas

Tradulinguas launches its Legal Translation Course for 2014

2014 is fast approaching and with it come new opportunities for translators around the world to improve their skills or perhaps learn a new one. That's exactly what Tradulínguas offers you all year-round. 

Tradulínguas has just launched its Legal Translation e-Course for 2014. This interesting course will provide translators the basic knowledge of methodology, documentation and basic concepts to help them thrive in this very demanding field.

The course will start on the 17th February 2014 and it will go until the 17th of March. The course comprises 50 hours in total and it will be conducted by Dr. Ana Soares. 

You can enrol until the 13th of February 2014. For more information about this great Course, please follow the link to the Official Brochure.

Updated Words Team

*This article was prepared by Updated Words with permission from Tradulínguas

Tradulínguas launches its e-Learning Legal Translation Course - Contracts 1

Once again Tradulínguas launches its Legal Translation e-Learning Course. This time the course will focus on Contracts and the differences and similarities between them in the Portuguese and Anglo-Saxon systems.

In this course participants will have the opportunity of studying all different components of a Contract, vocabulary and "false friends" usually associated with this type of documents and more.

The course starts on the 15th of October, 2013 and goes until the 29th of October, it is composed of 8 lessons, totalling an estimate 30 to 35 hours and it will be conducted by Dra. Ana Raquel Ruivo. You can enrol until the 11th of October 2013.

For more information about this wonderful course, please follow the link to the Course's Official Brochure, where you will find all the contents, prices and terms and conditions.

Updated Words Team

* This article was prepared by Updated Words with the permission from Tradulínguas

Updated Words now offers Certified Translation Services

Cátia Cassiano

Updated Words now offers Certified Translation Services. Our Founder Cátia Cassiano has recently be granted NAATI Accreditation, which enables her to provide Certified Translation Services from English to Portuguese. Cátia has been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 2010 and is now a Member of NAATI (National Australian Authority for Translators and Interpreters).

Certified Translations are priced per page and are subject to special terms and conditions. You may visit our Price List section to find out more about this new services. You can also fill in the form in Cátia's Profile page and send her an email should you have any queries. She will be very pleased to assist you.

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Updated Words new look and exciting activities

The new Financial Year has just started and with it came some changes to Updated Words. Once again we've changed our look a bit to make it even more appealing to our clients. A brand new website will bring you a much better experience and a more professional look.

Please feel free to browse and leave us a message with your queries or suggestions. We will be very please to assist you.

But there's more to this brand new look.We've added a new Glossary. You can now browse through our Idiomatic Expressions Glossary. There you will find all those Idioms that have been discussed in our online activities this year. 

Our Online Activities also suffered some changes. We received suggestions from some participating readers and we took them on board. It is very important for us to know what our clients and readers think of our work and what do they believe could be done to improve it.

Today we start a new model for our Activities Online. Instead of just focusing in a theme and discuss it, we decided to create some change and discuss several themes. On the first working day of each month we will release the Theme of the Month, that will be the subject for all posts of that month. We will continue to post a word or expression on every Tuesday (Sydney time) for our readers to comment and then on Thursday's (Sydney time) we will publish the correct answer. However, instead of doing it the way it has been done for the last 6 months or so, it will be done according to the Theme of that particular month. Once again, we advise our readers that they can always suggest a theme for the incoming months. Our Monthly Polls will also continue with more interesting subjects for discussion. The Monthly Polls however, are not affected by the Theme of the Month and will be chosen randomly. Readers can also suggest polls.

But there is a brand new activity for all our Forum and Facebook members/readers. Language Happy Hour was an activity suggested by one of our frequent readers. In this activity people can interact directly with us in Real Time. Once a month, a Member or Members of the Updated Words Team, will be online answering people's questions. These questions are subject to the Theme of the Month. The activity will be available for a period of one hour and people can participate both on our Facebook Page or Forum. The date and time of the Language Happy Hour will be announced at the beginning of every month on our Facebook Page and Forum. 

We hope you like the changes we've made for you and we will be waiting for more excellent suggestions, like the ones we have already received. The Updated Words Team would like to thank all participants in our online activities, it wouldn't be possible without you.

Thank you very much.

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Tradulínguas launches its new Medical Imaging Translation Course

Tradulínguas launched another of its great e-learning courses. This time, it is a very interesting Medical Imaging Translation Course that gives colleagues in this area the opportunity of learning a bit more about this very interesting subject.

The Course will start on the 20th of May, will finish on the 30th of May and it will be conducted by Dr. Pedro Serra. In this Course you will be able to learn a lot of concepts about Medical Imaging, starting with basic knowledge and terminology that can be relevant in a translator prospective and then moving to a more deep knowledge of Imaging Techniques, such as X-ray, CAT scan, MRI, Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine.

You can enroll until the 15th of May. For more information about this Course, prices and payment details, please visit Tradulínguas Official Brochure . 

Updated Words Team

*This article was prepared by the Updated Words Team with permission from Tradulínguas.

Tradulínguas launches its new Health Science Courses for 2013

Tradulínguas has launched its Health Science Courses for 2013. It offers 3 separate short courses that will help translators in this area understand basic concepts in three different fronts.

• Course of Biotechnology Translation 

This very interesting 10 day course will start on the 18th of February 2013. It is composed of 3 basic points: the cell, biotechnology and technological processes. During this course, participants will be introduced to the concept and will be able to create their own glossaries as well as complete several exercises. The course has an estimate of 25 hours and will be conducted by Professor José Matos . You can enrol now. Click here to read the official brochure with more information about this course.

• Course of Basic Medical Terminology

This course will start on the 25th of February and it will finish on the 11th of March with an has a total estimate of 30 hours. It will be conducted by Dr. Vanda Marujo and it will help you understand basic medical terminology allowing you to have a better understanding of the general medical bureaucracy and its procedures. You can enrol until the 20th of February. Click here to read the official brochure with more information about this course.

• Course of Anatomy Translation

This is a 12 day course that will start on the 4th of March, 2013 and has an total estimate of 25 hours. It will also be conducted by Dra. Vanda Marujo. In this course participants will be able to learn the basics of human anatomy, including the nervous system, respiratory system and many more. Click here to read the official brochure with more information about this course.

Updated Words Team

*This article was written by Updated Words Team with permission from Tradulínguas.