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

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]

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]