History of translation: “Go to recruitment – accept a bondage” or Recruitment policy in China

Several times we made translations for personnel departments of different companies, including small businesses and large international companies. We have translated set of documents “Personnel department support on questions of labour law and HR records keeping”, several dozens of position descriptions, management audit documents. Most commonly translation on “Personnel” topic belongs within language pair Russian-English, but we also have made translations on HR-topic from Turkish, Chinese and French languages.

“Own interests and the future shall be built on the basis of the company’s business ups-and-downs”- is written in the first paragraph of the Rules for the company’s employees, translated from Chinese to Russian in the Flarus Translation Company. Our translator from Chinese has made maximum efforts to convey all the shades of the document’s style: from matter-of-fact official style to appearing colloquial phrases, intended, probably, to inform personnel on high-scale indignation of the authority – (“it is prohibited to leave and be out of a workplace without permission, talk without interruption (verbatim translation from Chinese – “chat”), slack off”).

As written in text of the Rules translated from Chinese, for labor achievements the company will present not only material but mental rewards. It is not specified in the Compliance code what mental rewards mean.

A penalty shall be charged for being late to work more than 3 times a month: a half day salary is usually collected for one lateness.

As in translation from Chinese to Russian Employment policies and procedures in the area of retail trade are concerned, major part of the text is dedicated to посвящена standards of conduct for salesmen in the store. It is interesting that a separate paragraph is dedicated to a place where a salesman shall stand when greeting a buyer: “You should answer on customer’s questions standing before shop counter in order to accord a warm welcome”.

Конкурс письменного перевода "Found in Translation 2022"

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Переводчик напоминает сводню, которая, расхваливая достоинства прикрытой вуалью красавицы, вызывает непреоборимое желание познакомиться с оригиналом. Иоганн Вольфганг Гёте

Change of leaders in transfer directions

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At the dawn of our translation business (2001), technical translations from German accounted for 25% of the total. Translations from French - 7%, Spanish - 3-5%. There were also other languages in the orders, but their total share did not exceed 2-3% per month. Everything else - about 45-50% - English.

Where to find texts in English, German, Spanish, Chinese with translation into Russian?

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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.

Japanese language

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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.

History of translation: Spanish cinema recovers from being "unconscious"

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One month ago our agency started working on a big and exciting project — a translation of six full movie scripts from Spanish. You can always tell a Spanish movie from any other by its particular weirdness, marked by several specific features. They run like a common thread through various scripts of road movies, sitcoms and TV-shows, translated to Russian by our specialists.

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