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Original Text Low Quality – Ongoing Issue Translation Agencies Face |
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 A permanent source of problems the translation agencies regularly face is a low quality of the original texts received from customers for translation.  As you can guess, our Chinese friends are the champions of such troubles. It may be easy to understand a specific Chinese language vocabulary when we deal with household utensils. Although, when we speak about rolling mills or rock drills, i.e. serious equipment, we face a completely different level of difficulties. Fortunately, today the Chinese don’t translate such documents into Russian on their own but they attach the documents in English to their products. We call this language “the Chinese English”.
Moreover, the Chinese dialects are so numerous that some of them: Shanghainese, Guangdongese (Cantonese) – drastically differ from the Northern dialects.
There are lots of problems with other languages besides Chinese. The customers give us texts for translation and editing which are the results of machine translation. As a rule, in such a case a naive customer is going to save some money on translation. Sometimes the text is grammatically correct but its content is rather poor.
The translation agency activity is like a screen reflecting the citizens’ business activity (at least the one related to international communication). Therefore, some stupid mistakes are unavoidable. The thing that disturbs us is that the number of such mistakes has been growing for the last few years. However, the things like that sometimes entertain and distract us from our daily routine related to sprayers, spindles, distributors and the like vocabulary.
Неужели конец света ближе, чем кажется? Интернет-пользователи сделали поразительное открытие. Сервис переводов от компании Google предсказывает конец человечества.
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Each translator knows his native language better than a foreign one. Almost every person says: "I cannot speak this language but I understand it perfectly". The main reason for this is the difference between passive and active vocabulary. |
We know that many people are looking for bilingual text, while studying a foreign language. Sometimes it is a part of an exercise or necessary for a practical work. It turns out that there are not so many high-quality texts on relevant topics in English, German, Spanish, Chinese with a translation into Russian on the Internet. |
Translating your site into Chinese, you will get effective and quite economical method of attracting readers. |
No matter how much we aspire to an impeccable quality of translation, but sometimes errors still have a place to be. Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.
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When calculating the translation cost, most translation companies take one word of original text or page (~ 250 words) as an accounting unit. As for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, 400 hieroglyphs are taken as an accounting unit.
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In process of the translations it needs to remember that in the Japanese language the booky way of speaking and conversational speech are clearly distinguished, the various functional styles are distinguished, graduation of speech in order of politeness is developed, there are colloquialisms and jargons.
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Asking yourself the question "how is it possible to communicate with a Chinese person", you will certainly find a lot of advice in the Internet. Being translators from Chinese, we offer you our own advice. |
Depending on the linguistic problem posed by the client, there are different types of translation and technological processes of their implementation. Consequently, the translation cost and time required for it differ as well. |
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