New translation course online: app localization
Frequent visitors of my blog have already noticed an increase in articles on app localization. There’s a reason for that: today my Proz.com training on app localization is introduced.
I am glad to share some more information with you.
The new online translation course on app localization is hosted at Proz.com’s platform as a self-paced course. Participants can buy the course for as low as $ 50 (€ 37) and follow the 9 topics when they have time. After succesfully having completed the final quiz they will receive a certificate.
What’s in the course?
Let’s follow the description:
In the last few years we have seen a huge rise in the development and sale of mobile devices.
With the growth of smartphones, tablets and everything in between, the number of applications (“apps”) is also exploding. Many game and utility developers step in in an attempt to create popular apps and to benefit from the huge and booming new market. And if you want to you can read success stories of mobile app developers regularly. Just think of the stories of Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and Evernote.
Those apps are extremely popular and people demand them. In the past few years I’ve had the honor of contributing to some of the most popular apps in the world. You can have that chance too.
In this course you will learn the basics of app localization.
Target audience
- Translators who want to expand their specializations
- Translators looking to start app localization
- App localizers who want to learn more skills for app localization
- Translators who want to get new clients
Learning objectives
- The difference between app translation and localization
- How apps are structured
- The technical aspects of multilingual apps
- What mobile operating systems are available and how they require different localization
- What skills and tools you need to have to localize apps
- How you can localize app content
The course explicitly is not a course on app development nor is a training in localization.
It mixes both components and learns what apps are, where localizers need to care for and how they can achieve astounding quality.
Please visit the course page at http://www.proz.com/translator-training/course/10720-a_crash_course_to_translate_apps.
Moongoose
Pierre, in case you need an app localization tool to help you more easily translate software strings, I recommend you have a look at the online translation and localization platform https://poeditor.com/ – it has a great interface.
Moongoose
*Pieter, sorry. 🙂
Pieter Beens
Thanks Van 🙂
Did you know you can translate PO files in MemoQ as well? You only need POedit then to create the mandatory MO files for WordPress environments. Personally I find POedit not that useful, but I will write a review on that. Would you mind to share some experiences on it with me?
Moongoose
Is it possible that you may be confusing the desktop app Poedit with the localization platform POEditor, to which I linked earlier? If so, I recommend you check out the localization management platform POEditor for yourself, because it is completely different from the desktop app.
Just to mention a few things: you can use POEditor to manage localization teams, it offers different automation features like API, Translation Memory, Bitbucket and Github integration, it even has a WordPress translation plugin.
Also, POEditor is project based, which means that you can import and export the localized language files in any of the formats the platform supports (you are not tied to the initial imported format).
I don’t have much experience with MemoQ, so I couldn’t tell you how POEditor is different from this tool.
I hope this information proves useful to you.
Pieter Beens
Yes, I did. Sorry 😀
I will have a look!