English written by a Japanese speaker
| 10:24 Nov 3, 2006 |
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| Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO] Marketing - Business/Commerce (general) | |||||||
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| 3 +1 | Japanese-English interpreted by a native English speaker who speaks Japanese. |
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| 2 +1 | Interpretation of his English |
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14 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Japanese-English interpreted by a native English speaker who speaks Japanese. Explanation: "For instance, there is two sheets of paper for the business used with the business talk. In addition, it had used it by the business talk before in there were 20 kinds. The material that fights now is scarce." The individual appears to be complaining about the general conduct of business meetings and gives by way of evidence the dwindling amount of documentation. |
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3 hrs confidence:
english translation Explanation: I would replace buisness talk with something like meeting or presentation and change it to: "For instance, there are two peices of literature that the business used for the meeting. In the past they have used up to 20 different kinds. The material that is handed out now is scarce." Does this make sense in the context of whatever he said before. The important thing to remember with the japanese language is that they don't use all the little connecting words that we do, so if you ignore them, the meaning may become more clear. Also they tend to skip things we would consider important, relying on the ability of the listener to use the context to discern their meaning. Keeping those things in mind will hopefully help you "edit [rewrite]" this letter. |
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15 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Interpretation of his English Explanation: This may be a bit far-fetched, but if the word "paper" and "materials" are replaced with topics or proposal, and "fights" with discuss (with clients)or compete (against competitors), it can make a better sense, well, sort of. Putting these words in place, then this individual might be complaining that his dept people are not cooperative by providing far less proposals/presentation materials/documents for him to bring to business meetings. |
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