Before starting to work on this unit, you should be familiar with the following topics:

• what translation memories and terminology databases are
  
• the components of a regular translation project (e.g. source files in various formats, translation memories (TMs), and terminology databases (TDs))

By the end of this unit:

• you will have gained significant theoretical knowledge about the translation workflow;
• you will have become familiar with the theory and practice of pseudotranslating, pretranslating and performing concordance searches.