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четвер, 17 грудня 2015 р.

How to get a quality document translation


Document translation services is the aim of search for thousands of people everyday. It is rather easy to find someone to translate your document, but there is always a question if he will be able to translate it competently. Many people think that translation is rather easy and do not bother finding what they really need. Do we need to say that this approach leads to low efficiency? Finding professional translation services is the first step to success, especially if you need legal translation services.

1.                Forget about online document translation.


There are hundreds of various automatized tools to perform a translation for any document in the Internet. They are indeed handy if you need just a basic understanding on what is written on the language you do not know (but sometimes fail even at this), but whichever is less. The machine translation is far from ideal now and it just cannot translate any complex text adequately. Documents translated with special software usually have problems with common sense of the text and they are hard to read. 

2.                Hire a professional.


The best way to get quality legal documents translation is to use the best tools and a professional translator is the one. Professionals have years of experience and provide top quality of the translation, although they cost money, but hey, no one will give you high quality for free. And professionals will also edit and proofread your document! Here are some tips you may use in order to find a good translator:

  • Take a closer look at the agency service. Are you satisfied with the speed of work of the service etc? This is rather an important feature, because if the translator needs a week to translate 1 simple page document, he is probably not a professional.
  • Try sample translation if possible. Different agencies offer different translations, so try it out and choose the one, which suits better.
  • Find the translator who specializes exactly on your type of documents.

3.                Send the translator the complete document copy.

The process of translation is rather complex, so the translator must know the text well to perform the best translation he can. In order to get the highest result, help him to achieve his goal by sending the copy without any additions you will be making after he starts working. Of course this is not strictly forbidden, but adding new information into translated text takes time and may worsen the quality of the whole document. Try to avoid such situations.

If you are interested in finding legal translation services, subject-oriented interpreters on freelance platform 2Polyglot will assure the high-quality translation of any document you need.