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The Importance of Translation Services and The Work of Professional Translators Translation services bridge language barriers, enabling effective communication across diverse cultures and industries. They range from simple document translation to complex interpretation and multilingual transcriptions. Understanding best practices ensures accurate, culturally sensitive, and effective…

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Legal Translation Services

Legal documents, with their intricate language and cultural nuances, require a specialized approach in translation to maintain precision and compliance. In this blog, Metaphrasis explore the challenges faced in legal translation, criteria for choosing services, and techniques to ensure accuracy while staying compliant.

Introduction

Legal translation involves converting legal texts from one language to another while preserving their intended meaning and legal validity.

Importance of Precision and Compliance

In the legal realm, precision is paramount. A single mistranslation can lead to serious consequences. Compliance ensures that translated documents adhere to legal standards.

Challenges in Legal Translation

Linguistic Complexity

Legal texts often contain complex language structures, requiring translators with a deep understanding of both source and target languages.

Cultural Nuances

Understanding cultural subtleties is crucial to conveying the intended message accurately, avoiding misinterpretations.

Legal Jargon

The use of specific legal terminology adds an extra layer of complexity, demanding a high level of expertise.

Criteria for Choosing Legal Translation Services

Accreditation and Certification

Select services with recognized certifications, ensuring their competence and adherence to industry standards.

Industry Specialization

Look for translators with expertise in the specific legal field relevant to your documents, ensuring accurate translations.

Quality Assurance Processes

Providers with robust quality control measures offer reliable translations, minimizing errors.

Role of Professional Translators

Professional Translators with legal backgrounds can navigate complexities, delivering precise translations.

Technology and Translation Tools

Utilizing advanced translation tools aids in maintaining consistency and improving efficiency without compromising accuracy.

Legal Terminology Management

Translators should possess a comprehensive understanding of legal terminologies to ensure accurate interpretation.

Understanding Legal Systems

Translators must comprehend the legal systems of both source and target languages to ensure compliance.

Adherence to Regulations

Legal translation services should follow regulations governing translations, safeguarding the authenticity of documents.

Confidentiality and Data Security

Choose services that prioritize confidentiality and implement robust data security measures.

Benefits of Professional Legal Translation

Avoiding Legal Consequences

Professional translation mitigates the risk of legal repercussions arising from inaccuracies in documents.

Enhancing Communication

Accurate translations facilitate clear communication between parties, avoiding misunderstandings.

Facilitating Global Expansion

Legal translation supports businesses in expanding globally by ensuring compliance with international legal requirements.

Artificial Intelligence in Translation

Exploring the impact of AI on legal translation and discerning its limitations compared to human expertise.

Machine Translation vs. Human Expertise

Weighing the pros and cons of machine translation against the accuracy and contextual understanding provided by human translators.

Evolving Technologies

Anticipating how advancements in technology will shape the future landscape of legal translation.

Conclusion

We are more useful than ever in our global world, but we have become invisible. Gone are the days when our names were featured prominently on our translations. It seems that good habits acquired over many centuries are now lost.

With few exceptions, our names are mostly forgotten on the books, articles, web pages, news, movies, videos, mobile apps and games whose translations required hours, weeks or months of our hard work.

When our names are present, they are in fine print above or under the copyright notice at the very bottom of a page nobody will ever read, or they are mentioned at the last second of a movie or a video.

We rarely share the limelight with authors, let alone the cover and the title page of their translated books, whereas these authors and their publishers would not have all these new readers — and this new market — without our patient labour carried out day after day.

Some authors and publishers are interested in us, others not at all. Few authors invite us when they launch their books in a foreign language. And most publishers seem to think of us as a minor genre.

Despite being more useful than ever on our multilingual and multicultural planet, our working conditions have worsened. Most of the time, we work remotely, with precarious employment, difficult working conditions and plummeting fees.

The internet and digital technologies have their good sides of course — I think for example of the fantastic encyclopedia that is the web — but also their bad sides.

Translation services are now offered by language service companies that act as an intermediary between clients and freelance translators while taking a significant percentage of our earnings.

Instead of hiring in-house translators as was the case in the past, multinational companies now hire project managers who manage a team of freelance translators while also taking a significant percentage of our earnings.

Volunteer translations — including crowdfunded translations — are actively promoted by large organisations that have the necessary funds to hire many professionals, but no professional translators.

Do we ask an electrician or a plumber to work as an unpaid volunteer? No. When you are a translator, you are called upon ten times a day to contribute to a better world. A better world for whom? I often volunteer in a team of volunteers for causes that are dear to me. But to be a volunteer in a team of employees? No. In this case, all work deserves pay.

Being bilingual is a great asset, but is not enough to be a good translator. To be a translator is a profession and requires a thorough knowledge of the subject matter. Many of our colleagues fought during decades for translators to have a professional status and to receive professional training.

Translation is a bridge between languages ​​and cultures. Let us imagine for a moment a bookstore or a library in which all the translated works have disappeared. And a web where all the translated pages are erased. And movie theatres without foreign films. And the academic and scientific literature without translated articles. And this is also true for mangas, mobile apps, video games and many more cultural goods.

We — translators around the world — are full-fledged professionals contributing to knowledge, science, culture and leisure, on the same level as authors, illustrators, journalists, film makers, researchers, educators, artists and other creators. We deserve to see our names on our translations.

We do not want to be reduced to the human extension of computer-assisted translation or machine translation, although we recognise that such software is useful. We have been promised a 100% reliable machine translation since the 1950s, but this is still not the case in 2020. Human translators are still useful. Artificial intelligence does not replace human intelligence for many translations.

In a world where we no longer know if a translator is a human being or a software, we want to be recognised as qualified professionals and even as artists, not only for our precarious life, but also for the craft, dedication and passion we put into our work.

What can we do to be recognised in our society? A friend of mine suggests to write down the translators’ names for one year as a tribute to their work. It is a good idea. And the duration can be variable: for one month, for one week, or even for one day. A full day in a whole country or a whole region would be a good start.

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