Look for cut-off sentences, missing texts, texts hidden in a box because the translated content become too long for the space originally provided. Clients in the United States are professional organizations and they want to look professional in every way. This is, sadly, the most often overlooked area. Put yourself in the author’s shoe and imagine what a Vietnamese author would have wrote to convey the same ideas. Any additional grammatical errors missed in the editing step should be detected in this step when things “don’t sound right.” We should comb through the translated document for obvious typos. This font is more compact and most of the time would fit almost perfectly within the space provided in the original document. Translated materials are usually a bit longer than the original. But if I have the authority to choose the font, my gut is to go with “Times New Roman”. We might consider others fonts, if we must. Best fonts for Vietnamese are “Times New Roman” and “Arial”. Font corruption. It occurs more often than we thought it would, so watch out.English – Vietnamese Proofreading Best Practices -What to look for to ensure top-notch quality We do these steps after our English – Vietnamese editing steps above For these clients, stylistic changes are not necessary. Some clients would specifically ask for English – Vietnamese editing only when it is absolutely necessary (like where the meaning is wrong or the grammar isn’t correct). These English – Vietnamese editing steps are an integral part of our quality assurance procedure. CAT tools are a great thing, but breaking it down into small chunks, TM might put something in from some other contexts that simply won’t work here. The Vietnamese sentence could have conveyed all the meanings, but does it look like a word-word translation? Does it sound like a Vietnamese author wrote it, and not a “translated” version? Sentences should “flow” naturally as if they were written a Vietnamese author.Does the Vietnamese sentence convey ALL necessary meanings of the source sentence? When the sentence gets long and complicated, spend extra time to make extra sure that we are not missing anything.

Now that the English sentence looks fine, and I get a good idea of what it means, I then read the Vietnamese sentence.If there is a source text error, make a note to communicate with the project manager/client. Does it make sense? Source text errors are uncommon, but it happens. Here is my step-step English – Vietnamese editing procedure:

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