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5 Reasons Your Business Might Need Professional Translation Services (Part 1)
When a company is founded, the last thing on the minds of the founders is the possible need for professional translation services in their future. Everything in those first few months, even years, is about getting established and proving the business plan. Then everything swirls around the need to build an increasingly broad customer base and expanding from the original location and scope into larger or more numerous venues and/or ability to produce or provide services. However, most successful companies find themselves dealing with foreign and multi-lingual business partners sooner or later. Sometimes this unexpected challenge occurs very early in the process while for other companies, it can be many years before they gain a foreign business partner or important client. This means that while translation services are vital to complete mutual business transactions, it is also impractical to plan for an in-house translator when they will only be needed for a few transactions each year. For this reason, translation agencies thrive on providing translation services to many companies on an as-needed basis.
The sheer amount of foreign trade and business in and out of the US is astounding, and while few single companies need their own salaried translators, there is more than enough demand to keep many translation services alive by serving a handful to thousands of companies at a time, translating contracts, messages, and consulting branding campaigns designed for new audiences in distant countries. If you haven’t needed a translation yet but think you might in the future, here are five of the most common reasons why your business can benefit from having a professional translation service on-hand.
1) Hosting an International Website
One of the quickest and easiest ways to expand your market is to host your website in an international fashion. This means not only ensuring its availability and regulation compliance for foreign companies, but translating your content as well. This may sound simple, and you may be tempted to use an automatic translation program to accomplish this feat, but computer translation is a quick way to find yourself a disregarded joke in the markets you were hoping to influence. Without intuitive translation from a professional who understands the new target cultures, you can easily make an “eat your fingers off” or “aroused chicken” mistake without being aware of it. Another important aspect is your SEO, something you’ve researched and integrated carefully into your home language but may lose all meaning and effect if not strategically translated into the new languages.
2) Investment from a Foreign Angel Investor
For most companies, reaching out to foreign markets and worrying about translation comes fairly late in the game, but this is not always the case. Sometimes a foreign investor decides to put their money into a young American company because they believe in the cause, business plan, new technology, or just because they see great potential in the founding team. While these adventurous investors often speak fluent English, this is not guaranteed and it is still good form to provide all paperwork and communications accurately translated into their native language. This ensures that every interaction is completely understood in the clearest terms for both parties and their involved associates in both respective countries.
Join us next time for the second half of this two-part article. For more information about professional translation services and finding the right translation for your business, contact us today!
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Translation Services Hold The Keys To Spreading Your Ideas
Many people think that since we are living in a world where we hear English words spoken on a daily basis that translation services should not be necessary. English is one of the top spoken languages in the entire world. If you also calculate the number of people who use English as their second language, English will be the top spoken language. So, if so many people speak English, why are translation services really necessary?
Despite English being such a popular language, everyone does not speak English. There are also many people who do speak English, but they do not speak the language well enough to have a full conversation with an English speaker. Having a simple conversation may be acceptable for some things and some situations, but when full and effective communication is required, translation services may be necessary.
We have found that people will prefer to use the language they have spoken since they were old enough to speak. In order to sell anything to a person, you have to be able to speak to them using words they have heard their whole lives. People love their native languages, and when you can speak to them in that language, you will increase your chances of having a successful sales pitch.
When translation services are used, people can share their ideas and other information to various people from different cultures and backgrounds. Translation services will allow people from different worlds to connect and reach a shared goal. While English is a powerful language, it is not the only language that is spoken.
When you are using translation services for your business, you have to make sure the translation is successful the first time. Contact us today for more information about our translation services and how we can help you connect with your customers and clients.
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Sing Me a Translation, O Muse
Homer’s Odyssey is the story of warrior Odysseus’s ten-year voyage to return home to his wife Penelope after the Trojan War. It was written almost 3,000 years ago in ancient Greek and has been translated throughout the ages. Obviously there are no Homeric Greek speakers for 21st century translators to consult, meaning the task of bringing this epic work alive in English leaves much up to the discretion of the translator. Emily Wilson, a classics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has just published the newest translation — the first by a woman and the first English version in two decades.
The first line alone reveals the challenge of rendering Homer’s masterpiece into English. Here are three variations based on the exact same ancient Greek text:
- “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contending.” (Robert Fitzgerald, 1961);
- “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.” (Robert Fagle, 1996);
- “Tell me about a complicated man.” (Emily Wilson, 2017).
Someone reading these three sentences might not even figure out that they are translations of the same text. This is an extreme example of the judgment that translators have to use in taking a text from one language and putting it in another. Contemporary translation professionals, such as the translators at Keylingo, have one advantage over their academic colleagues: they are not deciphering texts that are thousands of years old. Instead, they are able to consult closely with clients to learn about their businesses and the purpose of the documents they need to be translated. Business translators understand the business contexts in which they are working, enabling them to preserve the precise meaning of every word as it is put into the target language.
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Benefits of Legal Translation Services
The legal industry is an extremely important and valuable one in this country. Regardless of whether it is related to a civil or criminal case, making sure that all parties are able to communicate is extremely important. Unfortunately, the legal process and laws are incredibly complex and can be difficult for someone outside of the field to understand. Fortunately, through the use of translation services, anyone can understand even the most complex legal cases.
Analysis and Definition
The first part of the legal translation process is the analysis and definition stage. Your legal translation specialist will be able to work with all of the involved parties to understand the case, the legal quirks and terms, and the coming process. Based on their analysis and review, the translation service will be better able to define the situation in clearer terms.
Execution
After the analysis has been completed, the translation service will work to execute a clear translation for you. This will include going through the entire case and process and putting into common terms for you. They will then be able to have this translation and understanding confirmed by the attorneys, which will help to guarantee that their understanding is accurate.
Report Delivery
Once everything has been confirmed, the translation service will be able to provide you with a concise report. This report will then be easy for you to read and will act as a great guide to allow you to make a more informed decision about the forthcoming legal process.
If you are involved in a legal case, contact us to learn more about how our translation services could help you.
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Getting Your Message Across with Advertising Translation Services
When you work in advertising, you understand the importance of public opinion and how easily it can be swayed in one direction or the other. Something which seems minor to you might have a major effect on the public which can get easily turned on or off. This is what makes it necessary to have good advertising translation services. They can help you to make sure that the undertones and overtones which are present in your original advertisement also make it through in translation.
Difficulty of Translating Logos
It is notoriously difficult to translate company logos which often depend on the way they sound rather than just their meaning. Obviously, when you trade one language in for another, you will have to settle for a different set of sounds. But if these can be made more appealing to the ear, then the translation will have achieved its purpose.
Making Sure the Message Gets Across
Another thing you need to watch out for in advertising translation is: what exactly is this advertisement telling the viewer to do? What is the message of this advertisement? Sometimes, the translation might be accurate but the message changes. Rather than motivational, it may come across as scolding or teasing, which is not your intention.
Meaning vs. Effect on the Viewer
Advertising translation is different from other forms of translation because the actual meaning of the words counts for less than the effect that they have upon the viewer. In other types of translation, you need to make sure that you maintain a delicate balance between meaning and effect. Sometimes, you might sacrifice one and sometimes you might sacrifice the other. However, a balance is generally maintained.
But when it comes to advertising, the effect on the viewer counts for more than the meaning. So if you have a choice between two translations, one which is accurate in terms of meaning and one which is accurate in terms of the motivating effect upon the viewer, you should go with the second.
Contact us for more great tips on achieving the right effect in advertising translation services.
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How Linguistic Research Can Save Your Rebranding Strategy
Rebranding can be critical to a company’s survival. Many company’s understand the audience is changing, competition is more fierce, and going global is a must.
So, your company is going through a rebranding process in preparation to launch your company’s services or products to the worldwide market. You’ve spent countless hours and dollars to pick the right name, look, and tone of the brand. The team finally comes together with high fives and pats on the back. It looks wonderful and sounds so beautiful to the ear. We’ve got a winner! But, do you?
It may be appealing to North American English native speakers but have you considered how that new brand name will sound and look to consumers located in other parts of the world? What if your new brand name sounded quite offensive in a foreign target market? Do you think that would negatively affect your sales? You better believe it!
This is where Linguistic Research can be beneficial. The objective would be to ensure that the name chosen would not be offensive in other languages. First, the client would need to identify what worldwide regions they are targeting and, with guidance, the list of associated target languages. The language teams would then be engaged for the in-depth research. This would involve researching similar words, whether written or phonetic, to understand if they could be construed as offensive or misleading as well as understand what the meaning of those similar written or sounding words are.
To avoid corporate embarrassment, it’s best to include Linguistic Research for your worldwide brand naming endeavors. To avoid offending your target consumers take the time upfront to understand your worldwide audiences.
For more information on taking your company global, contact Keylingo.
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