Certified NAATI Translation in Perth – Independent Checking

NAATI Translation in Perth: The Importance of Independent Checking

This article addresses quality in business or government translation projects. If you are an individual looking for information about how to get a birth certificate NAATI translation in Perth (or any other personal document), read through to learn more.

Now – You are probably wondering why your NAATI translations provider is asking you whether you want to add an independent checker to your project.

“Is one NAATI translator not enough to ensure the quality of my business project?”

The answer is simple: having a single NAATI translator might be enough, as long as your provider has the right systems in place to ensure a minimum standard of quality.

So how can you be sure? The key is in the purpose of the translation. The general rule is to always add independent checking to your NAATI translation if the translation is going to be published. If you are after community translations (targeting people from CALD backgrounds), then we would be referring to this step as “community checking“.

Would you print a brochure, a fact sheet or a flyer without having anyone read over your work? Would you publish a website without having anyone check the content? So why would you do that with a translation, and yet expect high quality outcomes?

Here is the thing: NAATI translators take great pride in their work. And we don’t believe in perfection. We believe there is always plenty of opportunities to improve the quality of a translation. A sentence that is not clear enough, a term that does not work for a particular audience, a cultural nuance that the first translator did not notice.

Remember: a good NAATI translator should not incur spelling mistakes, mistranslations or omissions. You should really be getting that without having to pay for a second translator.

So why have an independent checker work with your NAATI translator in Perth?

It is very simple. There is no better way to guarantee the quality of a translation than having two professional, NAATI-certified translators working together:

• The first one conveys concepts from one language to another.
• The second one tries to find errors and polishes readability.

At Sylaba we think that a bad checker is worse than not having a checker. A bad checker does not have a structured way of reviewing someone else’s work. A bad checker will try to justify their work by changing ‘nevertheless’ in favour of ‘however’.

A good NAATI translator that works as a checker will:

• make a translation flow better
• question and research the main translator’s terminology choices
• consider the audience’s cultural knowledge from their own perspective to try to come up with ‘safer’ ways of conveying a concept.

Spanish is the language in which communities from 20 different cultures communicate. How can a single professional do justice to such diversity, reasonably speaking?

A similar scenario applies to Arabic, Chinese, Italian, and any other language in the world. Because language is how cultures communicate. And there is not a language in the world that represents a single culture.

At Sylaba we believe in high quality translations in Perth that are fit for your purpose and targeted to your audience. If you are not sure what exactly you need to do to kick start your translation project, get in touch.