 Hello, everyone. How are you doing today? I'm going to talk about so I've been asked quite a few times to talk about some translation tips and Tricks and I've I've talked about some generic ones. It's just very hard to talk about them for a specific Am I in focus? Yes, I guess for specific Languages because they're all so different and it really depends on which language you're dealing with and which language combination and Not to mention all the fields and specializations and whatnot So that's why it's almost impossible to do that. However, having said that I'm still going to do that I deal with Italian to English translations And so what I'm going to do is talk about some of the issues that I have dealing specifically with Italian to English and Hopefully you can find this this useful. I think if you deal with romance languages, you will find it useful but also hopefully many other languages because similar stuff can happen although not the same and There are many things that I look out for when I when I Perform translations, but I I'm just going to name some of the main ones now Once again, this is specific to from Italian into English Italian to source language The target language is English because that's my combination. So I'm going to talk about those So the first thing that I do that I wanted to mention and that it pretty much I think should be standard for every single language out there is I read over stuff later on I do my own editing I will translate and once I'm done translating. I take a breather preferably overnight. I sleep on it the next day I get my coffee whatever whatever and I just read through my translation all in English and see what flows What doesn't and what seems a bit off or anything like that while I was doing the translations There's some questions or something pop into mind. I might already put a note to look out for it But regardless, I'm still going to read over it and try to Make sense of it. The reason for this is because When I'm translating the first time I'm doing it with an Italian state of mind And so here's an example that I had recently. I had this phrase which If I can find it oh here So just this phrase when I leave the day that he did a better than project Which granted is isn't very good Italian anyway, but when people are writing these reports and stuff They're not you know, they're just writing stuff down and in in Italian. It's fine when I was in the day that he did it a very little project and And so I would I could translate this as a now an analysis of the data of the tables of the project But this sounds very Kind of staccato in English. It doesn't sound right. So what I would do when I read over this I say when an analysis of the data or a data analysis and you see this a lot with possessives, by the way You know apostrophe s that you have that in English, but you don't have it in Italian So, you know the table of the project I could put of the project's tables project apostrophe s tables So a data analysis of the project's tables or even a data analysis of the tables in the project Or tables of the project or something like that that could work That that could work as well, but many times So this is kind of I mean it depends on you on how many times you come across it these types of phrases It might seem obvious or not But many times is when you're rereading it in English that you realize things sound a bit offer sound a bit too Italian at least that I do and so I really need that rereading with a different mentality Not syncing in Italian, but syncing in English and so I highly recommend that for well No, no matter what your language combination is that you do this rereading so you can sync things through in the new in The target language sorry Next one the next point I have is oh double negatives double negatives have been the bane of my existence They exist in Italian they exist in all romance languages and many different languages They do not exist in English the most common thing is Something like you don't know nothing about this you don't say that in English But in Italian you do no sign yet. They don't so yeah, they don't factor yet. I didn't do nothing you say But in English you have to say I didn't do anything now Usually these are very easy to spot and so it's fine The issue is when you have long complicated sentences and legal ease or it's something like that that you need to catch and Those and that's also why I do the rereading because quite frankly Many times in the rereading is when I catch them And here too, there's one that I found that I saved recently because I thought it would be a good example Well, it had a whole beginning part of the sentence and then comma and then it had again I'm gonna say this all in a time because that's my language But anyway, it had comma salvo che la sostanza dell'operazione del contrato non Inducano ad attribuire a telecomponent a telecomponent in una diversa natura e quindi un diverso trattamento contabile Right, you know one of those phrases and so You know, you're translating it and that's the thing when I first translated I was like unless this the Substance now, I don't remember. I didn't write it down much But anyway, unless the substance of the operation of the contract doesn't Inducano attribuire a telecom doesn't Inducano doesn't force I didn't say induce. I don't remember. Anyway, I know Inducano attributed Doesn't make you attribute Different type of nature blah blah blah to this component. Anyway The problem there was I said unless this is substance of the operation of the contract doesn't Force you to blah blah blah That's not it. It has two negatives unless and doesn't but once again, that's a double negative so it should it should say unless the substance of the operation of the contract forces you to or makes you do blah blah blah and That can be tricky many times So and by the way out of curiosity because I mentioned before that Google translate is not good at double negatives I'd plug this into Google translate Bing translate and Cystranet because those are the only ones I know and they all totally didn't catch it They got it wrong by the way big translate came up with it's very bad So please if you're using Bing translate Well, don't use any of these and I've mentioned before why you shouldn't because if you're dealing with proprietary text They take ownership of the text, but anyway They were they were terrible at this these things like double negatives especially in complicated sentence you're gonna have to find them in yourselves and for me it's so much easier to find them when I reread the text thinking in the target language in English and so anyway, yeah a sentence like that is hard to find if If you're thinking in one language rather than another and that was my issue I was thinking more in Italian So it's like unless the substance of the operation of the contract doesn't foresee the blah blah blah I meant forces you not doesn't force you so Let's go on the next point That I do so and so this is something I do every time I have a translation Because many times I'll find lists of things and they'll be for proper names like names of companies say it'll say Ford Boeing Fiat Nestle Siemens and General Electric, but what and so all those obviously all those names I would keep them as is because they're the same in whatever language and the only issue is at the end it'll say Siemens a General Electric and many times I don't catch that at the beginning because it just seems so natural that something space a a obviously means and in Italian It just makes me I Just don't think about it So what I have to do Once I'm done with the translation in fact, I have a list of all the steps that I take after translation I don't consult it all the time because now I just do it by memory, but I do I do a search for space a space space letter e space because that doesn't exist in English and So if I find you know some list of things where I didn't catch the a or even if it's just two names Only a Benji sometimes it doesn't click and there should be only and Benji and so I look for that or so Space e space or space o space, which means or in Italian again doesn't exist in English So there too, I know that it's something I didn't catch. So when I whenever I'm done with the translation After rereading it. I obviously do spell check and and all that good stuff, but I also Do a search specifically for space e space and space o space Whatever language you might have there might be an equivalent to look for when you're in a similar situation Like in French it might be space et space because that doesn't really exist in English or space o you space Anyway, that's something I do and I've found it very useful So yeah, I recommend doing it if you're dealing with Italian to English Another thing in the last one. I'm going to mention in this video is Is numbers formatting and that's a big one numbers formatting is such a thing because so in English is The numbers what you do is one thousand your one thousand point zero zero 1 comma zero zero zero point zero zero That's how you do it, of course in Italian many times. It's the opposite In fact, I deal with Switzerland and Italy so their various ways I've seen it written. I've seen one point zero zero zero comma zero zero or one kind of apostrophe zero zero zero comma zero zero. It's always comma zero zero in Italian instead of point zero zero for the decimal point which they call v to comma. And this is a real pain and so the best way that I know of translating of doing this is so if they use the the apostrophe I can do a find for apostrophes for those for those types of apostrophes. Of course if it's text mixed with numbers it can be a pain but what I try to do so okay if it's just a table of numbers and maybe some line items so if it's financial and income statement balance sheet something like that what I can do is a find and replace. Find all the apostrophes replace them with commas uh actually sorry there there you see the mistake first you find all the commas you brace them with dots then you find all the apostrophes and replacing with commas otherwise you're stuck with commas both in both places and it's impossible to do. So I'll just do a find and replace um if it's text mixed with numbers many times you have a table next to a bunch of text or with two pages of text then I'll just do find and replace I don't do replace all but I just replace each one as it goes down the table. If it's say like two pages of tables and then text I what I can do is copy the two pages of tables onto another file do a find and replace all and then copy it back hoping the format stays the same so yeah there are various ways of dealing with it obviously you have to you can't keep the the notation as it was before because it needs to make sense in the target language and uh then those are some of the best ways that I find because a find and replace finds all of them and many times if you're just looking by yourself you won't find all of them and it's a quicker way to replace them all um if you have numbers just in the text like and uh we sold 400 million copies of this and we made 12 million point 42 dollars and we did blah blah blah but it's in the paragraphs interspersed in the text that you obviously need to look for yourself you can do a find and replace for the for things that aren't as common right and so here I'm thinking the apostrophes might not be as common so you can check if they're any of those but otherwise yeah you need to do it yourself and be looking for these and uh one thing that I will look out for many times if you have a lot of big numbers is to look for maybe dot zero zero zero and try to find dot zero zero because those I need I know need to replace with comma zero zero zero and so that kind of shows if I missed any of them and uh so anyway uh just you know another thing you could look for is maybe comma zero zero but then you'll find the comma zero zero zero anyway uh it's a judgment call you need to see for yourself but you just need to keep numbers into account so that's something that I do I do this find and replace thing every time I have to deal with numbers with a lot of financials and I do a lot of financial translations so that's why I have a lot of those um so yeah anyway those are just a couple tips they are once again more specific to Italian to English but hopefully they're applicable if you deal especially with romance languages but if you deal with other languages they're somewhat applicable and uh yeah I hope you found that useful and if you did don't forget to click thumbs up because that always helps don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet with more tips and tricks for freelance translators once again I also offer services I offer to read over resumes online profiles um your websites whatever it might be for freelance translators you can find a questionnaire to fill out if you're interested in something like that down below I also offer one-on-one consulting services find questionnaires for that as well down below um down in the description here uh so feel free to get in touch if that's something you're interested in and uh that's pretty much it I will see in the next video thanks bye