Turning CAT QA into a lesson

I’ve been using memoQ’s QA checks to help my B2 students spot transfer errors in Spanish–English; last week we exported 40 flagged issues and discussed why 12 were false positives and how to tweak rules to reduce noise. If you’ve done this in class or training (Xbench, Verifika, Trados QA), which checks give the most teachable moments for beginners — terminology consistency, punctuation, or number mismatches?

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Xbench’s Numbers/Measures check gives my clearest wins: I demo how ‘1,234’ vs ‘1.234’ flips meaning in ES‑EN and add a simple ‘no spaces before %’ rule for English, then let them spot similar cases; tiny caveat — whitelist date formats to cut noise.

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