I attend a small coffee group of local translators and this month’s topic of conversation was “your five do’s and don’ts of localization.” Of course I had too many, so I decided to focus on specifically game translation. Do… Read, The post My Five Do’s and Don’ts of Game Translation appeared first on J-En Translations.
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