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I would like to know why only video game offers come from Chinese translation companies. Who covers the rest of the offer in China?
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Michael Newton United States Local time: 20:45 Japanese to English + ...
Chinese companies
Mar 24, 2022
Chinese translation agencies have pretty much captured the market in Japanese video games (as well as manga and anime). They have also captured a large share of the Japanese patent translation market. The rates are execrable.
Eugenio Garcia-Salmones
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edzhang Local time: 19:45 English to Spanish + ...
legal translation agencies
Apr 25, 2022
"who covers the rest of the offer in China" you mean passports, and official documents?
they are covered by other translation agencies that have legal certificates (the stamp) and company names
Nicksoni Filbert
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Michael Newton United States Local time: 20:45 Japanese to English + ...
Chinese translation companies
Apr 26, 2022
Work for these companies only if you wish to starve. They generally offer $0.01-$0.02/English word even for the most complex of medical and technical texts. Their excuse is "limited budget".
Josephine Cassar
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jyuan_us United States Local time: 20:45 Member (2005) English to Chinese + ...
Very low rates = very low quality
Apr 26, 2022
Michael Newton wrote:
Work for these companies only if you wish to starve. They generally offer $0.01-$0.02/English word even for the most complex of medical and technical texts. Their excuse is "limited budget".
If one translates 300 words an hour, they would make $3-6 per hour at the rate of $0.01-$0.02/English word. I don't think any native English speaker would work on those rates.
A client will be better of using Google Translate by themselves than contracting their work to someone willing to work on those rates.
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