Many times, after delivering a job, the client makes comments. On some occasions, it is to thank and congratulate us for our work; but in others, it is to ask us to modify our translation. If they are real mistakes, we must apologize and apply the changes; after all, “to err is human.” The problem […]
In the previous blog entry “Inquiries to the Client: It’s a Team Effort“, I talked about the fact that often times, the language services provider (LSP) needs to contact the client. Now, what happens when the client is the one who needs to make changes to your translation? Interpreting feedback First, it is necessary to […]
When facing a translation project, a translator is not only concerned that the meaning of a sentence in a language is correctly transferred into another language, based on his knowledge and field of experience. Above all, in each project a translator makes decisions on what might be called the aesthetic and contextual order. As we all […]