Tips To Hold On To A Good Translator

Translators are very crucial for your global business, in fact, they provide a life line to your business by localizing your business. Without localized business approach, it is impossible to grab the due spot light from the foreign consumers, because they would not be able to understand your message and services. Considering this significance of the translators, it is significant for you to act in a way that your relation and ties with the translators are bonded enough to be inseparable. Despite of so many translators in the world, it is hard to find out a good translators. If you have been successful in finding a one – a good translator, then it is imperative for you to facilitate your translator with your behavior and working so that the translator can feel comfortable to prolong his working with you, your business and well being of it.

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With expansion of globalization and hovering trend of global venture of businesses, there is a huge market for the people looking to be a translator. In fact, there are already numerous translators; freelancers or companies providing online translation service. A global businesses necessarily requires language translation services to easily break the foreign market by localized approach. Despite of this whole chunk of translators, sometimes it really becomes difficult to find a good translator. If you are running a global business, then you can rightly agree to me that finding a translator is easy, but finding a good translator is difficult. Way too difficult!

With all the tantrums and flaws in the translation market, if you have found the best translator, then it is time to hold on to its tantrum, because…finding a new one can actually get the hell out of you. So, if you want to remain in paradise and you have no yearning for hell, then you really need to learn that how can you develop mutual co-operative relationship with your translator and how it can be sustained.

So, below are given few tips to help you understand the mind-set of translators and tips to avoid augmentation of relationship with them:

Don’t consider them as a machine

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Yes, while working with a translator, we mistakenly replace them with a machine. We stop considering them as a human and they become merely a machine – language translation machine. It is worst on translators. It is as annoying for them as eating a raw egg. Don’t consider them so, because they are not like this.

Stop giving them unrealistic turnaround time and expecting that they will finish their task within minutes. They are human translators and they work normally, like humans. The other way out, the translator will get annoyed to a point that he can leave you. Yes, he can! A good translator is like a boss and he can fire you!

Language Error

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As language is a symbolic thing and anything being communicated could only be understood if language is written correctly. Can you understand a written content with syntax error, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors? If your answer is no, then how on earth can a translator understand it? If you give such a content to a translator, then consequences could be wrong translation. It is your fault, but if you will still blame the translator, then be ready for a bye!

Pay on time, not after Translator’s death

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Well, if you think that translator is having a huge bank balance, because he earns in dollars, so it is fine to pay him whenever you want, then you are wrong. Translators are just humans like us and they also have some duties to abide, a family to look after and desires to be filled. So, it is good to try to pay them on time, because no matter how much they earn, you really don’t know what expenditures they may have. Don’t take them for granted, because they do their job, not charity! If you are looking for charity, head towards a charity organization, they can serve the purpose.

Provide them the Source File

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PDF and JPEG are readable, obviously, and they can also be translated – after transcribing. Yes, that is what most of the clients do: send the translator PDF or JPEG file instead of source file. This increases the required efforts of the translator and he has to go extra miles to do translation. So, it is better to provide him the source file first hand, otherwise get ready to increase your cost.

Always Remember your Words

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Keep record of your communication, because it can create a havoc in case of miscommunication. You should remember and have record of the things which you communicate either through mails of voice message. Things are more likely to get aggravated if record of communication is not kept. To avoid such situations, always remember your communicated instructions. Otherwise, it simply means that you are giving certificate to translator to blame you and invitation to trouble to land between you and translator.

Negotiate the Rates Before Starting the Project

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If you don’t want to face a nightmare in day, then it is better to negotiate the prices with the translator before the beginning of the project. It is a wrong practice to work on the basis of your self-perceptions and face a tragic end on the other end. It will result only two things: either you would be pushed to nightmare or the translator will end up biding a good bye after a long quarrel. This is the situation which many clients face when they try to settle the rates after the job has been done; don’t be amongst those.

Praise them when they Deserve

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Do you know that praising boosts human’s moral and the capacity to do well? Do you know that their moral gets down when they are not praised for their good work? Well, if your answer is yes, then why don’t you praise translators when they deserve it? Your praise will not only boost up their moral, in fact, it will help to build their loyalty with you. No affiliation and feel of belonging can uproot and will leave you in tears…after all a good translator is gem for your business.

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All these factors play a crucial role in determining your relationship with the translator and how much long relation you can keep. If you don’t bother to keep a long relation with your translator, avoid these tips; if you want to keep a good relation with your translator, these tips are for you – embrace them to embrace you ultimate serenity. Trust me, they work!