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The Best Way To eLearning Translation

May 1, 2020

The best way to achieve successful translation of elearning courses is to enlist qualified resources to support the effort. Generally speaking this includes involving native speaking linguists, elearning application specialists (if integration or formatting services are required), and an experienced project manager to task all project members and ensure a successful end project outcome. Translators: […]

3 Ways Translation Can Help Your Company Get More Business

April 23, 2020

Businesseses and commercial organizations are well known for their focus on bottom lines. That’s what makes them commercial (and not non-profits). So expenditures of resources are often evaluated in light of their ability to help secure more business. When it comes to translation services how exactly can translation services help companies get more business and […]

The Best Way To eLearning Translation

May 1, 2020

3 Ways Translation Can Help Your Company Get More Business

April 23, 2020

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The Best Way To eLearning Translation

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Translators: Professional translators typically have subject matter specializations in the types of projects they perform. For example a subject matter specialization might be finance, law, technical disciplines, or other even more specific specializations. Translators will also have a native language, the language they grew up speaking and writing.

It’s ideal for translators assigned to an elearning translation project to be both well versed in the subject matter of the elearning material, and be native speaking in the target language for translation. By target language we mean the language the text is going into. For example in an English-to-Spanish translation project, Spanish would be considered the target language.

Application Specialists: Not every elearning translation project requires more than language skills, although some do. Sometimes translated text requires integration into specialized elearning aplications such as Articlulate Storyline. Designed print materials can require formatting in desktop publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign. Specialist personnel perform these services once text is translated and proofread.

Project Managers: Project managers are the glue that bring together all pieces of an elearning translation project to a specified end deliverable. They effectively function as quarterbacks, drawing on the skills of specialists as needed to successfully complete a project. Project managers know the relative strengths of all project resources based on past experience, and are best positioned to assemble and manage the elearning translation process from beginning to end.

3 Ways Translation Can Help Your Company Get More Business

April 23, 2020

Businesseses and commercial organizations are well known for their focus on bottom lines. That’s what makes them commercial (and not non-profits).

So expenditures of resources are often evaluated in light of their ability to help secure more business. When it comes to translation services how exactly can translation services help companies get more business and bring in revenue? Here are three ways that we’ve noticed over the years:

1) Supporting access to new markets where the dominant language isn’t English

Reaching new markets in the US and abroad can entail communications in languages other than English. Translating documents, promotional materials, websites, and other supporting materials will be essential in marking a connection with new customers.

2) Training non-English dominant employees to support better job performance and increased sales

Translating employee training materials will make them available to and more effective for employees and associates whose dominant language is other than English. Better trained employees lead to better performing organizations and higher sales in the long run.

3) Asking for feedback from non-English speaking customers

Learning directly from customers requires a dialogue as part of an effectiveness business development program. The quality of those two way communications ideally means interacting with customers in the native language of the customer.

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The Best Way To eLearning Translation

3 Ways Translation Can Help Your Company Get More Business

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3 Ways Translation Can Help Your Company Get More Business

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