4 Easy Steps To A Translation-Friendly Document
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Selecting the right translation company is obviously a critical factor when it comes to ensuring top quality translation. However, it’s even more important to make your original document “translation-friendly” from the start in order to save extra headache later.
What is Back Translation?
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Back Translation is the process of translating a document that has already been translated into a foreign language back to the original language – preferably by an independent translator.
Translation of raw data such as focus group transcripts back into the language of a client from the language of the consumers is common in market research area. In fact translation remains one of the most important parts of a market research project.
Pun Intended
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The ability to make and understand puns is considered to be the highest level of language development.
Here are the 10 first place winners in the International Pun Contest:
Why One Can’t Trust Online Translation Tools
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In the past several years there appeared a lot of online translation tools that offer from simple phrases to the whole website translation into multiple languages. One of them is Google Translate, which, in comparison to other language translation tool, claims to use a “statistical translation system for the language pairs” instead of the rule-based approach that “requires a lot of work to define grammar and vocabularies.”
What the company actually means with their technology is that they “feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model.”
Top 10 Languages to translate your Website into!
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When you’re looking to expand your market share and present your products to the broader international audience you have to do your homework in regards to your target audience. Knowing what are the fastest growing regions in the world will help you to position your website correctly and tap into the right markets.