Reasons Why Not to Use Google Translate for Business Purposes

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Reasons Why Not to Use Google Translate for
Business Purposes

• By - The Spanish Group

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• Google Translate is one of the most language
  services in the world, but that isn't a guarantee
  of quality or accuracy. Google Translate is
  well-known for being iffy. It makes a lot of
  mistakes, and it doesn't translate with the
  nuance that you might need for things like
  business documents.
• If you're considering the use of Google
  Translate, here are five reasons why it's better
  to seek professional translation services like
  The Spanish Group over it.

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• It translates literally.

Google translates everything word for word. As
soon as it hits a colloquial expression like
"break a leg," its translations fall apart.
It's also terrible with everyday words and
phrases that have secondary meanings. For
example, if you're using Google Translate
Cantonese, it might take the saying "your eyes
met mine" and translate it with the literal
Cantonese word for "met," which means "seeing
someone in a social setting." You'll give the
impression that a pair of eyeballs are going out
for coffee with a friend. As you might imagine,
this kind of verbatim translation can result in
some pretty nonsensical documents. You'll want to
avoid it with your own business. Not only will it
send the impression that you're an amateur, but
it can also result in legal or financial
consequences if your flubbed translations have
real-world consequences. Do yourself a favor. If
you're trying to translate something to Albanian,
don't use Google Translate Albanian.
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• It isn't updated or operated by professionals.

Google Translate was first launched for Arabic,
but it has since expanded to everything from
Google Translate Khmer to Google Translate
Creole. The good news is that it has seen
contributions by millions of native speakers
worldwide. The bad news is that there's no
guarantee of accuracy from them. Setting aside
the trolls who enter fake or vulgar vocabulary
words for fun, there's also a limit to the amount
that a layperson can translate. For example,
Rosita, the shopkeeper might be a fluent Spanish
speaker, but that doesn't mean that she has the
range of skills to translate medical documents.
Her contributions to the Google Translate Mexican
Spanish won't be up to snuff. This is why it's
important to seek out professional translators,
especially when you're running a business. You
want an accurate, high-quality document for your
company, and you want their translations to know
what they're talking about.
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• It doesn't always account for regional dialects.

Google uses a machine translation (MT) system,
and those systems are notorious for being bland,
formal, and overly generic. They can't understand
the subtle nuances that make up an everyday
language, especially when it comes from accents,
dialects, or regional differences in speech.
Take Mexico, for example. There are more than 65
languages used in daily life, and they have 350
dialects spread between them, but Google
Translate Mexican can only recognize a few.
Another example is South Korea. The people of
Seoul don't talk like the people of Busan, so if
you're trying to open a factory in the former,
you don't want your translations to sound like
they come from the latter. Don't even think
about China. There are so many different ways to
speak Chinese that they're almost separate
languages. A portfolio that uses Google Translate
Cantonese might be unreadable to someone who
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