You are currently working on UAT
So I downloaded the SDL Trados Studio, installed it for the languages I use.
Then I get the training packages (some PDFs and sample files) and it is all intended to be used with German.
So I reinstall the software all over again with German.
Then I'm going through the PDF and most of the time it doesn't tell me what to write in German! It just says translate the remaining segments.
Really disappointed in this training package and hope there is someway to raise this issue to SDL.
Hi Karl Coutet
It would be good if SDL produced sample packages in a variety of languages to match the language pairs of users. However, as SDL Trados works with ANY language combination that Microsoft Windows supports, this would be a huge undertaking.
If it were possible to produce a set of instructions that allowed you to add your own language pair with your own simple document, that would be better. The best place to suggest this is the appropriate Ideas page, accessed via the Ideas link at the top of any SDL Community page:
Others will see the idea and will be able to vote for it and add their own comments, which will lend the idea more weight.
Good thinking!
All the best,
Alison
Hi Karl Coutet
Ah, hang on a sec, I get your point. The TMs and auto dictionaries are there to be used so you'd need the correct translation texts to demonstrate them in work.
The answer to that, then, would be to have the correct translations already saved to the TMs so that they can be added as 100% matches using the 'Apply Translation' function on the top toolbar or Ctrl+T.
I haven't ever used the sample files, I don't know if the translations are already in the TMs provided or not. I guess not, or you'd have noticed them [;)]
All the best,
Ali
Hi again Karl Coutet
Add that to the ideas page as I recommended in my first post ;-)
All the best,
Ali
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Hi Jerzy Czopik
Fair comment. Though, a total beginner would not already have the knowledge to create a TM and TB so the whole training package would have to be redesigned to include instructions on that before anything else. Though I've not used it, I think that currently it's based on examples that include ready-made 'building bricks' of TM, TB, autosuggest dictionary, etc., so users can get straight into translation with as little knowledge as possible.
I personally would prefer a tutorial that is first based on creation of all the elements required for a translation (autosuggest dictionary excepted as the TM has to have a certain number of entries before that is possible) but that would be too much information all at once for some new users who just want to get on and translate.
Fair point also that focusing on typing in another language takes one's concentration away from the task of learning how the process works...
There must be a logical solution...
Ali [:D]
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