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How I make sure clients are satisfied with the quality of my translations?

I check if the client has a style guide. If there is no style guide, I try to find the information online myself or I send a query to the client.

I make extensive use of the client’s website, online platforms, and other reference materials.

I ensure terminological consistency. I use QA tools, such as Verifika, to confirm the terms I use are consistent throughout the document.

I have the query sheet template prepared. The query sheet promotes collaboration and communication and contributes to crafting accurate and precise translations.

When localizing apps into highly inflected languages, such as Serbian, translating strings with number tags can be a challenge.

This is because the grammatical form of the word changes depending on the number in the tag.

More often than not, I need to come up with creative solutions to ensure that the string is grammatically correct regardless of the number in the tag.

Here is an example with its back translation:

➡ To extend your session another [TAG] minute(s), please press the Extend button.

➡ Serbian translation: Da biste produžili sesiju za nekoliko minuta ([TAG]), pritisnite dugme Produži.

➡ Back translation: To extend your session for a few minutes ([TAG]), please press the Extend button.

While translating documents for biomaterials for oral tissue regeneration, I noticed a dozen sentence pairs in the source text that could be translated in the same way.

After finishing the translation, I imported the bilingual files into Verifika, which identified inconsistencies in the source text.

I sent the list to the client with a note that the list was thoroughly checked. I recommended that they make the sentences consistent across the document, so they can better leverage the translation memory.