Translation Companies: Evaluating Your Choices

（Edited by freelance Chinese translator li – English to Chinese or Chinese to English translation services）

Translation is seem to be a more and more fundamental service in this day in age. There are hundreds if not thousands of businesses in the globe that have come onto the scene to provide translation services to address these growing market demands.

For the average user, they will probably look for free translation services and software on the internet for every day translations, largely looking up a word and translating it into another language. For this purpose, those free translation programs work very well, however once you get into longer documents and even mere sentences, the level of value and accuracy dramatically spirals downwards in many cases.

If you don't agree with me, then try taking one well-written paragraph in any language you prefer, preferably one that you are a native speaker/writer in, and convert it into another language that you also have fluency in. You more likely than not will find that the class of the translation is not only subpar, but even a toddler has a better chance of writing something better.

For personal and limited uses, it's perfectly fine to use these types of ways for your translation needs, but when you start moving up to the level where you need to incorporate communications to an intercontinental audience for business functions, hiring a quality translation services team is highly fundamental.