Wanna know how to go out of business real fast? Then do a sloppy job speaking the language and dialect of your clients or prospects. Insult them enough times by mangling their language, and you'll be out of business before you know it. This lens discusses the importance of using high quality professional language translation services and provides resources to learn more about this topic and locate a good translation company.
"Translation is a learned skill, just like anything else."
Alboum & Associates Blog
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So how do you get a high quality translation? If the translation is important to your business then you should strongly consider locating and using a professional language translation service. Using a free translation web site will result in a horrendous translation - believe it or not, it is just too difficult of a science for a computer or website to do. A highly skilled and experienced human translator is necessary.
"Experienced" is the key word there.
"Translation is a learned skill, just like anything else. Just knowing two languages doesn't mean you know how to bridge the linguistic divide between those two languages. That is what you need formal training for," says Sandra Alboum, President of Alboum & Associates Language Services and an experienced translator herself.
"Languages have different syntaxes, grammars, cadences; and it takes a trained person to be able to know where these differences are, and how to apply them," continues Alboum. "Translators are multilingual writers. They are trained to be sensitive to nuance and to faithfully render one text into another."
Taking it one step further a good professional translator should bring additional skills and knowledge to the table. "They are often also specialized in a particular field - law, medicine, etc. - and have a better grasp on the terminology of the field than someone off the street," says Alboum. "They're also trained in reference work - we know where to look when we can't find things."
While as often is the case in today's hustle and bustle corporate world, where things are always urgent and frequently done last minute, if at all possible adequate time should be allowed for the translation process. When dealing with technical or complex materials, it might take almost as long to translate the text as it was to originally write it.
Tone, style and intended target audience can also come into play relating to professional language translation services. "People ask a translation be done in a different tone than the original," says Alboum. "We often have clients send us very technical documents and ask that we translate it for the common man. While we always try to cater our services to best meet a client's needs, our job is to translate what we are given, as it is presented to us. If it needs to be understood by the common man in a foreign language, it needs to be written as such in the original language."
"Experienced" is the key word there.
"Translation is a learned skill, just like anything else. Just knowing two languages doesn't mean you know how to bridge the linguistic divide between those two languages. That is what you need formal training for," says Sandra Alboum, President of Alboum & Associates Language Services and an experienced translator herself.
"Languages have different syntaxes, grammars, cadences; and it takes a trained person to be able to know where these differences are, and how to apply them," continues Alboum. "Translators are multilingual writers. They are trained to be sensitive to nuance and to faithfully render one text into another."
Taking it one step further a good professional translator should bring additional skills and knowledge to the table. "They are often also specialized in a particular field - law, medicine, etc. - and have a better grasp on the terminology of the field than someone off the street," says Alboum. "They're also trained in reference work - we know where to look when we can't find things."
While as often is the case in today's hustle and bustle corporate world, where things are always urgent and frequently done last minute, if at all possible adequate time should be allowed for the translation process. When dealing with technical or complex materials, it might take almost as long to translate the text as it was to originally write it.
Tone, style and intended target audience can also come into play relating to professional language translation services. "People ask a translation be done in a different tone than the original," says Alboum. "We often have clients send us very technical documents and ask that we translate it for the common man. While we always try to cater our services to best meet a client's needs, our job is to translate what we are given, as it is presented to us. If it needs to be understood by the common man in a foreign language, it needs to be written as such in the original language."
Language Translation Books on Amazon
Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management
Amazon Price: $67.45 (as of 07/13/2009) 
How to Communicate with Your Spanish & Asian Employees: A Translation Guide for Small Business Owners
Amazon Price: $30.36 (as of 07/13/2009)
Automatic Speech Translation: Fundamental Technology for Future Cross-Language Communications (Eurotherm Seminar Proceedings,)
Amazon Price: $73.95 (as of 07/13/2009)
Credit Control Letters in 15 Languages: Instant Translation Service for the Credit Control Manager
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009)
Langugage Translation Videos
Blog Posts from Google
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- When translating for an Arabic-speaking audience, you should consider whether the Arabic or Eastern Arabic numeric system should be used.
- Hebrew language translation live on Bing Translate
- Now perform hebrew language translation online using Bing search translator. Perform online translation or use translate widget on your blog or website.
- RTI International's Language Translation Service Featured at ...
- Miilos, a real-time e-mail translation service developed by RTI International, will be among the novel technologies on display at the 2009 International Association of Science Parks' conference in Raleigh, NC.
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