Back Translation Services

Back Translation refers to translating a document an already translated back to the original language. Crystal Hues provides back translation services along with translation services ensuring that back translation is done by a different translator.

Back translation services offered by Crystal Hues allows you to compare the translated version with the source document in the original language. Back translation ensures the reliability and the validity of translation.

It is important to not expect a perfectly matching back translated document since back translation may use different words which are synonymous and then some words in one language may not have any equivalent word the translated language. Translation is an art which relies on the creative skills of the translator rather than a logical or methodical skill.

The translators entrusted with back translation must necessarily have excellent command of both the source language as well as the target language and is expected adopt a literal translation approach while doing back translation.

The purpose is t allow the original author to compare the back translated document with the original document.

The process flow of the translation cycle typically includes:
• translation
• Back-translation
• Comparison of both the documents
• Modification and corrections of the translated document as per mistakes found by the back translated document
• Final version of the translated document