“Spoken words fly away; written words remain.” – Latin saying Once you have spoken or exchanged emails with the translator and all the relevant project specifications are well defined, the best next step is to put everything together in clear writing. This can be done rather formally, by adapting a model contract to your needs [...]
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Translation agreements
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Defining project specifications
“If you do not invest time to brief your suppliers, there is little chance that you will get what you want or need. It may take only 10 minutes longer than telling your assistant to ‘get this translated,’ but if the right person spends those 10 minutes chatting to the translator (or even the project [...]