A discussion about translation services, translators, and translation software

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"and their is evidence of"...

Here's another Japanese web site:
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/index.html

I thought the translation was pretty good until I checked out a page (http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/research/index.html) and noticed it was slightly 'off'.

What do you think?

thought the translation was pretty good until I checked out a page (http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/research/index.html) and noticed it was slightly 'off'.

Have you ever been to China? A funny thing is that China, the country with the largest english-speaking population has a special way of using it, so for an asian person, that translation is actually ok.

The translation is hilarious and it's sometimes difficult to make sense out of it. Hey I'm not ridiculing them, this is probably done on some kind of translation software anyway.

Another reason why a professional and not an employee who is not a trained translator should translate your website. Employees who are bilingual or have not lived in there country for a while may be accustomed to things in English that do not translate to the foreign language. They may simply overlook them because they are used to it.