Working With An Interpreter -- The How Tos
Anybody who does international business knows how important it is to have good interpretation. Now, thanks to an excellent post over at ImageThief, entitled, "How to Work With Interpreters," we have a better idea of what we can do to help assure this occurs. This post is a must read.
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Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endNina Ivanichvili - August 1, 2007 9:06 PM
Absolutely love your blog! Mine is brand new: http://www.translationforlawyers.com.
I haven't had the opportunity to address the topic of working with interpreters in the above-mentioned blog yet, but thought your readers would be interested in my previously published "A Lawyer's Guide to Cross-Cultural Depositions".
http://www.languagealliance.com/white-paper
It discusses the role of professional court interpreters in cross-cultural depositions.
Best regards,
Nina Ivanichvili
http://www.languagealliance.com
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Michael Friedman - February 1, 2009 8:42 PM
You might want to add some tips for text translation.
Most important one I have is make sure the document is well written in its native tongue BEFORE you translate it.
I find that taking a Chinese text back to the author and asking him to highlight the subject and verb of each sentence and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph often produces hilarious results.
It also saves a lot of time and money to do this BEFORE getting incomprehensible gibberish from a translator.