Arabic Translation Service – Finding a reliable Arabic translation service can be a daunting task, as not many people in small and medium sized European or American companies speak Arabic.
How To Chose A Good Arabic Translation Service
That means you need to be 100% sure that the Arabic Translation Service provider you chose delivers accurate work. How can you be sure?
Well, if you don’t want to run the risk that your so carefully crafted sales letters and company brochure contains silly sentences, or even worse, that you don’t use comparisons or names that are an insult or ridiculous in the Arabic culture, you need an ironclad deal. Best is to chose a reputable Arabic Translation Service provider to translate a difficult document into Arabic. Then do three things with it:
The 3 Ways To Evaluate An Arabic Translation Service
- Supply this document to an other well known Arabic translation service to translate it into the original language. Don’t tell them it’s a translation, just ask them to translate the document into the English language.
- Have the translation delivered by the first Arabic Translation Service read by an expert in Arabic languages – Think language professor at a university or similar, or if you have access to an Arabic language interpreter, have him do it.
- Finally, take the original document and the Arabic translation delivered by the first Arabic Translation Service to a third tranlation company and ask them to judge the work and tell you where they would have worded things differently and why.
The third step will always result in some differences, languages are not mathematics, so there is room for interpretation and many different ways lead to the same final point.
By getting three different opinions on the original translation, you should be in a good position to judge for yourself, if you can and want to trust the Arabic tranlation service with your reputation. There are many examples of large, multinational companies trusting their translation service or their marketing departement, only to find out later, that the name they had chosen for a product or service – which sounded great in their own language – had a totally different meaning or was a word that was not to be used in the polite day to day language….
You see, even if you don’t speak Arabic yourself, there ware ways to have an arabic Translation Service evaluated!