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Translating your web site
If you want your pages to be properly translated, don't
rely on amateurs. I would even say that many professional translators
produce poor translations. I know by experience that it is very hard to find
a company that can do an excellent translating job. I was recently looking
for one; here is what I went through:
I first made a search on Google. I came across several sites that claim to
be companies with high talented translators etc. Some of these sites look
very professional and trustworthy. To check their ability to do a good
translation, I went to the French versions of these sites (I am a French
native speaker and I guess this is the best way for me to check out their
translation skills). To my great surprise, the French translations were
often very lousy: spelling errors, grammatical errors. In some cases, the
translation was grammatically correct and the spelling was OK but it was
obvious it was a text translated from English. You could still feel the
English wording and it was very unpleasant to read. It is difficult to
explain, but if you are fluent in two or more languages and I am sure you
understand what I mean.
Anyway it’s amazing that companies whose job is to translate documents and
web sites for their customer cannot produce a high quality translation for
their own web site!
After spending days and days searching for company
providing high quality translation, I finally came across an Italian company
called Translated.net. The French version of their web site is excellent and
they charge reasonable translation fees. You can use the form below to get a
free estimate of their translation fees.
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