The translation profession has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. As companies have an increasing need to reach more people with products, services and, in general, their business, professional translators have seen an unprecedented growth in their work.
Whether you work for a large multinational translation company or a small agency, it is the translators in their soliloquy at the computer who are the real architects of a good translation.
If your company has already been looking for a translator to revise/edit a text that was translated in-house, you may have some experience of how difficult it can be to find one.
Without having official statistics, I would say that most translators, if given the choice between doing a translation job or an editing job (revision), they would choose translation.
For any reputable translation agency, quotes are an important contractual document that requires special attention. In fact, it is difficult to back out once the quote is accepted, as it commits the agency to perform the work at the estimated price.
This is a very important factor to consider for project managers in translation companies, translation departments of large companies or anyone who uses translation services in general. Why is that?
One of the principles taught in translation faculties is that you should always translate from the original text. This is a reasonable idea , because in general nothing is more accurate than the original.
When that potential client told me “how can I trust a translation that needs to be revised?”, I was caught up in his reasoning: Even I thought he was right! It's been a long time since that day, but I still remember as if it happened yesterday.
Most of us have been brought up on that Christian premise “The truth will set you free.” However, as we grow up, we see that this biblical freedom comes at a cost we are not willing to bear.
Translation errors in the marketing sector are a good example of what is best to avoid in order not to seriously harm the development of brands and companies abroad.
The literal translation of brands or advertising slogans can have serious consequences on the corporate image. There are many such translation errors in the marketing industry today and we wanted to share some of the funniest ones on this blog.
Any translation should offer a high level of quality, whatever the nature of the document or article in question. This statement will no doubt lead you to ask yourself some questions. For example: "What are the characteristics of a well-translated document?" At AbroadLink Translations we explain it to you!
