 Hello everyone, so okay before I forget because I forgot on the last video to mention this Because I got some complaints From people saying that they didn't know when my videos come out because sometimes it's a bit irregular I try to always have a video out at least once a week sometimes twice a week It's usually on Tuesday and Friday ish, but sometimes it's a bit different from that Once again, this isn't my job. My job is as a translator. It's a freelance translator. So sometimes I You know, anyway, so there is a fix for this if you do what right under this video I think there's that subscribe and if you are subscribed and then there should be that Bell if you click on that Bell Then you'll get a notification every time I have a new video So you don't have to worry about if it's up or not or if you know If it comes out on Tuesday or Monday or a Friday or if it's not coming out on a Friday this week or something along those lines You just get a notification every time there's a new video It notifies you and you don't have to keep checking to see if there is a new video or not Anyway, today I wanted to talk about Well, I want to talk about a message I received here because someone wrote to me and said that each new project demands a lot of Effort and sometimes research but the client doesn't have the time to wait for you It would be interesting if there are some resources explaining how to effectively approach the translation of a text Especially in an area you don't know much about without losing too much time in the research process so basically this question has to deal with after you've contacted a trans our client to Do their translation? They get back to you and say, okay, you know, you can work on our translation and it ends up being you know by engineering or biology translation or chemistry translation something like that and You maybe don't know much about the area or you don't know much about that specific company and their terms or something They use and so how do you deal with that because obviously you don't have time to educate yourself in Biology overnight, but you need to hand the translation in by tomorrow So how can you deal with that? first of all if it is a translation that has any type of specialization so if it is a you know a scientific translation an engineering translation if it's any type of technical translation even if it's You know say an accounting translation or has legal terminology anything along those lines Then it should be specified ahead of time the client should notify you and tell you if the client doesn't and You aren't told anything and suddenly you receive this translation or this text with all these chemical compounds in it or something along those Lines then of course you have every right to tell the client say whoa, whoa, whoa Okay, you didn't mention that this was intense chemical terminology, which I'm not familiar with I can still work on it But I might need a bit more time to become familiar with it or you can just say look this isn't my Specialization you need to find someone who specialized in this and so I won't be able to work on this they're definitely appreciate that honesty more than you bungling up the job and so if it is Something that requires a certain amount of specialization. You should be notified ahead of time Don't be scared to ask But even so it's up to them to notify you and if they haven't don't be scared to tell them Hey, this is pretty specialized stuff either. It's gonna take me longer I might have to charge more or I just can't work on it And so maybe I can recommend you some people but I can't do it now Let's say they do let you know they say look this is an engineering thing It's not too complicated. You should be able to work on it and say okay fine so you accept to work on it and then they send you something and It has its own terminology That's obviously be very specific to their company or to their industry something along those lines at that point What you can ask for is for either a glossary that they might have or past Translations, maybe past versions of their website past brochures or Catalogs or anything that they've worked on if you aren't the first to ever translate into your language Then they have something else some are something they use even if you are the first many times They have something they use as a standard or something along those lines So there to feel free to ask them and it shows that you kind of know what you're talking about or that you've been through this before And I can say because I've been through this before if they use certain terminology you need to use their same terminology I've made translations in the past that were completely a hundred percent correct But it was just different terminology from the one they'd been using in the past And so they they were not happy about that and I had to redo it all So don't be scared to ask for any examples of terminology that they might have and you can say look Do you have any examples of past terminology and you know catalogs websites anything you might have just so I can make sure all the Terminology is consistent throughout all your literature now having said all that there could be the situation where they say okay we have this engineering translation to do or whatever it might be and It's not too technical you can work on it And we've never translated into your language before but we need it to be correct. So then what do you do? I don't have examples of past translations though. And so How do I know which terminology to use? Well here as well first of all there there are several very useful links I made a video before called useful links and I'll link to it in the description below and That has some good links where you can deal with this Otherwise I can walk you through exactly what I do and now here's the bad thing about translation Unfortunately translation is the nature of the beast. It's many many many many many different languages and and also many specializations I deal with Italian to English mostly financial and legal translations So I have the websites that I use for those There are many other websites many many other ones in fact I've done some medical translations and I know there's a very an excellent website for a time to English medical translations but I I can't remember what it is right now and So anyway, I'm gonna show you I'll do a screenshot of what I use and and how I use it and why I use it and hopefully that'll help you out and From then you can also see how you can discover your own websites to use that can help you out in the same way Depending on your language combination and on your specialty as well Okay, so here we are on one of the websites that I use quite often and this is linguid dot IT or anyway I then now obviously I use the Italian to English version But as you can see it's available in quite a few other language combinations So I think if you go to LINGUE.com you can get all the other language combinations Anyway, I use this language combination because it's what I'm used to let me show what happens here This is something I had recently to do that is sicka and so it's a term that you know Maybe I wasn't sure exactly how to translate it and so I had to look it up And so what you do when you look it up here. You see all these are Examples in Italian all these are examples in English and these are Translations that have been done in the past of this same term to do that is sicka here We see in parentheses flat rate tax. Okay, cool Let's see here to that is sicka here single dividend tax. So that's different So what do you do in this? Well, you keep going option to do that is sicka flat rate tax option Should that is sicka here see withholding dry. This is obviously a bad translation doesn't mean anything And then let's keep going down here. We see flat rate tax. Okay, so you see a certain trend starting to form flat rate tax Seems to be the the norm because I would have thought something like flat tax rate But here flat rate tax seems to be what everyone's doing what I like about this is that it shows various Examples of what's been translating the past and you can kind of use your head to see what works and what doesn't and you know You see something like withholding dry, which obviously is wrong and and so you can Decide not to use that but to use something else now say you use something like this you would say Flat rate tax and then your client replies you said, oh, no, that's wrong. It should be flat tax rate. That's completely wrong Why did you come up with that? You're the worst. You're the worst. You can always say well, look What I like about here is that they show the source. So let's hear. Let's open this is a new tab let's open this in a new tab and These are the source websites that where the original translation was found. So if I go here and You can see that this was originally Mr. Deleconomy de la finanza. This was the ministry in economics and finance Document so this is pretty official if they translated it translated it this way chances are that It's good enough for the client, right? Because you know, this is this was done by the Italian government So and in fact here so what I will do usually with the client is I will find this on Here I will search for And as you can see it's a hundred and sixty two pages So it might take a while to do this and here also I will search for flat rate tax Let's see if it comes up with any point soon, but you know, it should find wherever this translation is on this document there we go and Page one sixteen. Yeah, and you see Che dole se ca and then here on this you see there flat rate tax So what I would do is I would send both of these Files these PDFs to the client or the or the website that they're from and say if you check on page one sixteen You'll see Che dole se ca here and you'll see on this page on, you know page 114 that it was translated with flat rate tax Which means that this is the translation that is being used by this government entity and that'll be fine for the client If you can show something official like this then it should be fine If there's if in fact if there's still not fine with it you can go and try some of these other options and you can say look It's been translated this way in various other places various different websites So it should be okay, and so you know you kind of cover yourself because here you Show that you didn't just come up with it by yourself, but it's been used in the past But let's do another website here context reversal.net. This is a pretty good one it works in more or less the same way as you can see I use the time to English that's someone that already comes up and There's some searches. I've done in the past. Let's do something. That's not too hard Doing this so basically here mind that that you see authorized representative authorized representative agent agent trustee trustee agent agent And it works in exactly the same way authorized representative. And so once again, it has different things. It doesn't give you one Final answer you have to kind of use your own judgment. Okay in this context it's a better to use authorized representative or agent or trustee and And you can check depending on the context and and the content of what you're translating and here, too I think yeah, there you go They have the link to the original so you can you can always link it back to the original and so it works pretty well they also have here a list of Translations used in the past for this so anyway, it works in more or less the same way I find this quite useful and once again here. In fact, I think they have different languages that you can translate to and from so In fact, yeah, so if it's a tiny it goes into here if it's English it can go into here So you can look at the language combinations and figure out what works best for you So here's something else that I came across there Honda for fun That was it because I don't do too many technical Translations and so I don't use these too often But here's one that I came across and this is just basically an online glossary of different terms that are technical Maybe I want to know. Oh, how do I say, you know, Ginestra in English? And so I'll look up the term Ginestra there we go and Broom there you go. So if you can find certain Online glossaries or dictionaries like this then they can definitely be worth it as well By the way, you should bookmark any one of these that you find so you don't waste time searching for it in the future Once again, however, this is only English into Italian. So if you are if you don't Deal with English to Italian then this precise website won't be all that useful to you unfortunately, but you will find other ones and Just this just gives you an idea of the type the different types of help you can find online dictionaries or Examples of past translations. So say you don't know where to start at all Something you can do is just go on to Google itself and then just type in I don't know say Yeah, in English. So actually let's start here with English so here there's something that is is obviously in Italian and I don't know how to say it in English and so I Decide search for it. First of all, the first thing that comes up here If you Google it will always be Google translate and social charges is wrong That's not how it should be translated and some of the other ones are like this Bab dot la whatever it is for some reason Oh, actually here it doesn't seem too bad because sometimes some of these just use Google translate But here you can click on this one and you see social security taxes. Okay, so this might actually be correct And let's go here Here we see context reversal, which I guess is the one I used in the past as well And this this once again is that same website the reversal one And so here you see social security contribution social security contribution social contribution social charges Etc. So it kind of gives you an idea and you can see which one you should choose, but this is what I was looking for there Usually you'll find something that says pros as well pros is Usually the best option if I can find pros then that's the one I'm going with because pros has a very good selection And they're very precise and it's driven by other translators who then correct each other And so here you see the Italian term you see the English translation So social security contributions and you see, you know someone else also wrote benefits And so you can once again Judge for yourself and see what they say and see which one sounds best to you in the target language So if you can find in fact what I will do many times is let's go back here to the original search is I'll search either in English which means in English and you know in Italian or I'll just put English And you know which gets us those those results as well or sometimes I'll just put say English pros and so then the pros.com example if they're if one exists will show up right away and And you know, I won't waste time with the other ones Usually if I can find an example under pros then that's the example I want Now let's look again for Mandathario in English and here we see word reference came up of course the problem with Italian is that many words are exactly the same has very similar to Spanish and so many times Spanish pops up and And so and in fact, this is President chief will be wrong, but Mandathario Asian representative it will be right and Generally word reference comm is a good source as well. This is a Spanish English one for those of you who work in Spanish English, you know, but if Here in English or in English you can fiddle around with the Google search and see what pops up If you see word reference comm if you see pros comm I like as I said lingue. I like the constant the reversal if any one of these are good websites to use and as you keep going in your language combination and your Specializations, you'll come across other ones Like if you work in Spanish this Spanish dict comm might be an excellent source for all I know if you find that it is definitely bookmark it because you're going to want to use it in the future For an online dictionary likewise with Spanish central and whatnot So to me like I don't know that much about Spanish Translations and so this would all be new to me And so if I'm going through it for the first time these are some of the things that I would be searching for and what in Bookmarking so I mean that's pretty much it in terms of trying to find places that help you find new terms And can help you with specific Technical terms terms you might not be used to Searching for in the future and it shows you sort of what I do when I'm trying to search for terms as well And the website said I use and hopefully I'm sure there are equivalents in all sorts of language combinations So unfortunately, there's so many different language combinations that I don't know them I just know what I deal with but you will probably find things that work in a similar manner And you should definitely bookmark those and go for those in the future and be searching for stuff like that So I hope you found that useful And I hope that it helped to show a bit of the process that I go through when I'm searching for new terms in terms That I don't know the websites that I use and the mentality basically in trying to find the best term in the target language that you're looking for and To make sure that you know you get the right sense in terms of the context and and in terms of the document That you're using etc etc etc So hopefully you found that useful if you did, please don't forget to leave a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe If you want more videos like this and like I mentioned before if you click on that little bell next to the subscribe button Then you will get a notification every time there's a new video So you'll be notified when there are new videos about freelancing and freelance translation more specifically So that's about it. 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