Proofreading in English

Flarus deals with text translations and proofreading on a daily basis: public documents, restaurant menus and technical manuals. After the translator’s work is done, all these texts need final proofreading to be done by a native speaker.

Proofreading is done by a native speaker after the translator’s work is done. It doesn’t mean that the latter failed to do his job properly. Even a most qualified translator who has been working in his field for decades can make a slip in his text from time to time. For instance in case of Russian-English translation a proofreading can find out some minor misuse of articles, endings and words concord – such grammar cases need not only a good command of the language, but a linguistic feeling that only native speakers have. We will give you several examples of sentences before and after native speaker’s proofreading. This is particularly so with public documents. See more...