Effective Business Translation Services

By: Armando Riquier
Submitted: 2008-04-17 11:24:41
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The Earth continues to grow smaller as more businesses and non-profit organizations set up a presence on the world wide web. Logically, the demand for quality business translation services increases. The down fall of any sort of growth is the inevitable arrival of incompetent providers desiring to take advantage of a lucrative market. What are the facts to be considered when electing a business translation service?

Topic Specialization

The overwhelming majority of enterprises are very product and/or service oriented, meaning that they specialize in the production of a particular type of merchandise. They may also focus on the rendering of certain services. It's for this very reason that consideration may need to be given to the area of expertise of the firm itself or of the individual translator in charge of the work. Competent business translation services give special attention to their clients' need for specialized translation.

To illustrate the importance of knowing when to require that a translator be an expert in the discipline in which the company operates, imagine the needs of a medical office or law firm. Each field of study has a highly specialized vocabulary that is usually very technical and quite unfamiliar to the lay person. Often, when one thinks of the linguistic skills of a translator, he assumes a knowledge of all vocabulary sets and jargon of the foreign language in question. This is the exception rather than the rule, and such assumptions should be avoided. Think of the difficult terminology of the world of medicine, having numerous words with prefixes and suffixes derived from Latin. Imagine the sophisticated legal terminology that is part of an attorney's active vocabulary. Now imagine even an experienced translator without medical or legal terminology, trying to translate such important documents. Physicians and attorneys in need of business translation services should know that a translator's knowledge of the language of discipline in question is just as necessary as his knowledge of the foreign language.

The Mother Tongue

The language in which a person uttered his or her first words is usually deemed the native tongue. Nevertheless, languages that were learned naturally before three years of age, are also considered by some to be native. The thought behind this is that in such cases of bilingualism so early in life, there's hardly ever even a hint of a foreign accent in either of the two languages known.

There's a definite advantage to electing native speakers of a language to provide business translation services. It's not rare to need thorough knowledge of the culture connected with the target language just in order to provide translations that retain the impact of the original word or sentence. Schools and colleges around the world understand this aspect of business translation services. Accordingly, when foreign language instruction goes forth in the classroom, lectures covering the culture are incorporated. Nevertheless, real life experience can never be replaced by book knowledge.

Customer Care

Finally, effective and polite customer service in the client's language of choice should be expected from business translation services.

Armando Riquier and the Author are both freelance translators and writers collaborating with Tectrad, a translation agency providing high quality business translation services into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and many other languages.

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