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Translation Review Checklist
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✓TaskComments
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Pre-Project
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✓Is the purpose of the translation clear to the vendor (e.g., to inform, to persuade or to bind legally)?
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Determine target audience, their language, ethnicity, reading level, location, background.
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Target language agreed
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Are reference materials, support documents or surrounding documents available? If so, supply your vendor with those items.
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Is a sample of the product referenced in the source document, or a screenshots or photos of the same available? If so, does the vendor have them?
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Are there parallel texts available in the source language (e.g., company literature)? If so, supply your vendor with those texts.
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Are there parallel texts available in the target language? If so, supply your vendor with those texts.
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Should currency, date and time formats, units of measure and names be retained with cultural equivalents (e.g., John to Jean, dollars to euros)?
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Translation tools to be used:
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- Machine Translation
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- Translation Memory
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- Terminology
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- Glossaries
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What is your timeline for the project?
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Are there any copyright or confidentiality issues?
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Add any others here.
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Post-Delivery
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Accuracy/Style
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Grammatical errors
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Spelling mistakes
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Verb agreement
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Omissions
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Punctuation errors (hyphens, en dashes, semicolons, periods)
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Idioms and colloquialisms, e.g., "nuts and bolts"
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Regionalisms and cross-cultural references
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Male and female references, e.g., names of professions, may need to be transformed into generic ones or vice versa.
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False cognates, e.g., "complicity" versus "complicité”
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Diacritics
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False friends, e.g., English "bald" versus German "bald"
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Discriminatory/offensive terminology
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Topical context, e.g., hospitality versus finance
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Linguistic patterns, e.g., repetition, redundancy, alliteration
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Has all the content been translated?
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Have technical or industry-specific terms been double-checked for accuracy?
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Formatting
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Font check
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Font size
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Color used
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Line spacing
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Translation of proper nouns (names of cities, countries, people, titles of books and movies, etc.)
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Are tables and diagrams formatted well, so that they're ready for presentation?
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Currency
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Measurements (e.g., yards versus meters)
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Idioms and colloquialisms, e.g., "nuts and bolts"
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Alphabetical order (e.g., "Germany" versus "Deutschland")
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Rendering: Does everything display properly? Do all graphics appear in their proper positions, and does the text flow around them as it should?
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Has the translation been performed according to instructions, supplied reference material, glossary, style guide, etc., where provided?
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Did you make a backup copy of final translation, design files and fonts, especially foreign language fonts?
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How would you rate this translation overall (F Excellent F Good F Average F Below Average F Unacceptable)?
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Sources:
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www.mass.gov
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www.translationdirectory.com
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www.europeansocialsurvey.org
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ec.europa.eu/
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