Translation
Translating and adapting text between human languages.
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- Adapt a public notice for many languages
Prepares a public notice for translation into several community languages by rewriting it in plain language, flagging cultural and literacy issues, then drafting translations with reviewer notes.
- Adapt text to a regional variant
Adapts text between regional variants such as pt-PT and pt-BR, es-ES and es-MX, en-GB and en-US or fr-FR and fr-CA, covering vocabulary, spelling, grammar and conventions, listing every change.
- Adapt a script for dubbing or voice-over
Adapts a video script for dubbing or voice-over so each line fits the original timing, sounds like natural speech and respects lip-sync on close-ups, with notes for the director.
- Back-translate to verify a translation
Back-translates a translated text and compares it with the source to surface meaning shifts, omissions and ambiguity, for surveys, consent forms, notices and other high-stakes text.
- Brief staff on working with interpreters
Writes a one-page guide for staff who book interpreters in clinics, schools, councils or charities, on when to book a professional, briefing, first-person speech and what interpreters will not do.
- Build a translation glossary
Builds a bilingual glossary from a document such as a contract, manual or book chapter, with approved terms, definitions, do-not-translate items and client queries, so long jobs stay consistent.
- Check target-language typography conventions
Checks a translated text against the target locale's typographic conventions, such as quotation marks, spacing before punctuation, number and date formats and capitalisation, listing each fix by line.
- Community interpreter mentor
Mentors new and volunteer community interpreters on accuracy, impartiality, confidentiality, first-person rendering, managing the flow and self-care after hard assignments, and knows when to refer on.
- Compare translations of the same text
Compares two or more translations of the same passage, poem or scripture line, showing where they diverge, why translators may have chosen differently and what the original allows.
- Drill register for court and police interpreting
Practises keeping register, hedges, false starts and tone exactly as spoken in legal settings, with segments to render and feedback on any cleaning up, softening or explaining.
- Drill medical terminology for interpreters
Drills medical terminology for interpreters one specialty at a time, in both languages and in clinical and lay register, with rendition rounds and commonly confused terms. Never gives clinical advice.
- Faithful translation rules
Standing rules for whenever the assistant translates, so nothing is added or dropped, names and numbers stay exact, register is kept, and ambiguity and high-stakes output are flagged for a human.
- Run a freelance translation job
Takes a freelance translation job from enquiry to delivery in gated steps, covering scope and quote, brief and glossary with client queries, translation, self-review and QA, then delivery and invoice.
- Handle an official letter in a foreign language
Translates an official letter received in a foreign language, explains what it requires and by when, and drafts a reply in that language for an expat or immigrant.
- Interpret a conversation
Acts as a live interpreter between two people without a shared language, translating each turn faithfully both ways, keeping register and flagging ambiguity instead of guessing.
- Localise social media captions
Localises social media captions and hooks for an audience in another language, keeping the creator's voice and humour, adapting hashtags, puns and references, and giving two options per post.
- Make a parallel bilingual text
Produces a paragraph-aligned bilingual parallel text from a source, for learners or for official side-by-side use, with optional glosses for hard phrases.
- Post-edit a machine translation
Post-edits machine translation to light or full level against the source, fixing meaning, terminology and fluency, with an error log by type. For translators and localisation reviewers.
- Practise community interpreting
Trains volunteer and community interpreters with short role-played exchanges such as a school meeting or a clinic visit, then reviews accuracy, register, first-person rendering and ethics.
- Practise consecutive interpreting note-taking
Trains consecutive interpreting notes with speech segments, then reviews the learner's notes and rendition for structure, links, omissions and symbols worth adopting. For trainee interpreters.
- Practise sight translation
Gives short fictional documents to sight-translate aloud, then reviews the learner's rendition for accuracy, restructuring, register and hesitation, with a model version. For interpreters in training.
- Prepare for an interpreting assignment
Builds a prep sheet for a specific interpreting job from the booking details, with topic background, a bilingual glossary, names and acronyms, questions for the client and session briefing points.
- Estimate a translation job quote
Estimates a translation quote from job details and the freelancer's own rates, with weighted word count, time, price arithmetic, risks and the questions to ask before accepting.
- Read foreign signs, labels and buttons
Translates and explains signs, product labels, appliance buttons and notices in a foreign language from a photo or typed text, including what action they require and any safety warnings.
- Review a translation
Compares a translation with its source and flags mistranslations, omissions, additions, register shifts and terminology inconsistencies by severity. Use before publishing translated text.
- Transcreate marketing copy
Transcreates marketing copy for a target market, adapting idioms, cultural references and claims rather than translating literally, with back-translations. Use before launching in a new market.
- Translate a business email
Translates a business email and adapts it to the recipient's business culture (directness, formality, greetings, sign-offs), noting each adjustment. For professionals writing across languages.
- Translate a contract
Produces a careful working translation of a contract or legal text with terms of art flagged, untranslatable legal concepts explained, and a pointer to a certified translator for official use.
- Translate a CV into another language
Translates a CV into idiomatic target-language CV phrasing with a line-by-line back-translation the job seeker can check, careful job-title and degree rendering, and format flags.
- Translate a group chat thread
Translates a pasted group chat with its slang and abbreviations, then sums up what was decided, what is asked of you and by when, and drafts a short reply in the group's language.
- Translate a research interview transcript
Translates qualitative interview transcripts for analysis, keeping voice, hesitations and culturally specific terms with originals in brackets, plus translator notes and line references.
- Translate a literary passage
Translates a literary passage preserving voice, rhythm and imagery, offers alternatives for the hardest choices and writes a translator's note on what was gained and lost.
- Translate medical information
Translates patient instructions, discharge notes or medicine leaflets into plain language in another language, flagging doses and terms to confirm with a clinician, pharmacist or interpreter.
- Translate old family letters
Translates old family letters, diaries or postcards for family historians, handling archaic spelling, old place names, dates and abbreviations, marking unclear words and adding context notes.
- Translate a personal document
Produces a faithful working translation of a personal document such as a certificate or transcript, keeping layout, names and numbers exact and flagging when a certified translation is needed.
- Translate a picture book
Translates a children's picture book text keeping read-aloud rhythm, rhyme where it matters, page turns and age-appropriate words, with alternatives for the hardest spreads and picture-matching notes.
- Translate preserving tone
Translates text while keeping its tone, register and intent, adapts idioms instead of copying them, and notes the choices a reviewer should check. Use for anything a person will read.
- Translate product listings
Translates online product listings for a new market, with titles using local buyers' search words, specs and sizes converted, care and safety text kept exact, and claims flagged for checking.
- Translate a property listing
Translates a property listing for foreign buyers or tenants, converting areas, explaining local terms like room counting and service charges, and keeping it accurate rather than more appealing.
- Translate and convert a recipe
Translates a recipe into another language and converts units, oven temperatures, ingredient names and regional equivalents, flagging ingredients that may be hard to find.
- Translate a research abstract
Translates a research abstract, title and keywords in the field's established terms, keeps hedging and statistics exact, follows journal conventions and lists term choices to confirm.
- Translate a restaurant menu
Translates a restaurant menu for international guests with appetising dish explanations, correct allergen terms and dish names kept consistent across every language.
- Translate song lyrics so they can be sung
Translates song lyrics so they can be sung to the original melody, matching syllable counts, stresses, long notes and rhymes, with a literal version alongside for meaning.
- Translate subtitles
Translates SRT or VTT subtitles keeping timing and numbering, respecting reading speed and line limits, condensing where needed and flagging puns and cultural references.
- Translate a technical manual section
Translates a technical manual section or work instruction with consistent terminology, short controlled sentences, safety messages in standard signal-word form, and units and part numbers kept exact.
- Translation project manager
Acts as a translation project manager who scopes jobs, writes briefs, picks linguists, manages glossaries, queries and deadlines, and runs quality checks so multilingual projects ship on time.
- Translator
Works as a professional translator who serves the reader of the target text, keeps a running glossary, asks about purpose and flags untranslatable choices. Use for ongoing translation work.
- Transliterate names between scripts
Transliterates names, places and addresses between scripts using the standard the user needs, such as ICAO passport, pinyin, Hepburn or BGN, and lists the variants to expect on forms.
- Work through interpreter ethics dilemmas
Presents realistic ethical dilemmas for interpreters one at a time, asks what the learner would do and why, then discusses the options against principles common to interpreter codes of conduct.
- Write a bilingual safety briefing
Turns a safety briefing or toolbox talk into a side-by-side bilingual version for a mixed-language crew, with short sentences, consistent hazard terms, pictogram suggestions and comprehension checks.
- Write a brief for a professional translator
Writes a brief for a professional translator covering audience, purpose, tone, terminology, format, reference material, review process and deadlines, and lists what is still missing.
Not: software string files (localization).