Where to advertise my translation services to Chinese sellers? Thread poster: Arturo Villasenor Garcia
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Hello everyone. I'm an English to Spanish (Mexican) translator. Here in Mexico there's a Mexican site similar to amazon.com and I've noticed that a lot of products from Chine being sold there are badly translated. I was wondering where can I mass-contact those sellers or advertise my Spanish translation services for them.
I contacted alibaba service asking if they had a section to advertise translation services and they said they didn't.
Any ideas?
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| Don't bother | Mar 23, 2022 |
Arturo Villasenor Garcia wrote:
Hello everyone. I'm an English to Spanish (Mexican) translator. Here in Mexico there's a Mexican site similar to amazon.com and I've noticed that a lot of products from Chine being sold there are badly translated. I was wondering where can I mass-contact those sellers or advertise my Spanish translation services for them.
I contacted alibaba service asking if they had a section to advertise translation services and they said they didn't.
Any ideas?
Unless you are a translation machine, I wouldn't bother.
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Michael Newton 
United States
Local time: 01:34
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| Chinese sellesr | Mar 23, 2022 |
Unless you are OK with working for USD 0.01 to 0.02 a word, don't bother. When I propose a rate to Chinese agencies, I always get "limited budget". I recently proposed USD 0.03 for proofing/editing and it was turned down.
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jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 01:34
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English to Chinese
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| Not a direction to even think of | Mar 23, 2022 |
The sellers don't sell poorly because of the lousy translations of their texts, and better translations may not lead to better business either.
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LIZ LI
China
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Arturo Villasenor Garcia wrote:
I contacted alibaba service asking if they had a section to advertise translation services and they said they didn't.
Any ideas?
The terrible translations you found out for those sellers, are provided by Alibaba.
And Alibaba itself is working on large-scale Machine translation projects.
They'd prefer algorithm than translation.
[Edited at 2022-03-24 11:58 GMT]
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Sadek_A
Local time: 09:34
English to Arabic
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| Definitely... | Mar 24, 2022 |
...Fortune Cookies
They are doing it to everyone, so why not be done to them?
"An EN-ES marvel is seen on your path. Grab the opportunity."
Joking aside, simply try searching "Chinese manufacturer/seller looking for EN-ES translator," both in English and Chinese/Mandarin.
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Jan Truper
Germany
Local time: 07:34
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jyuan_us wrote:
The sellers don't sell poorly because of the lousy translations of their texts, and better translations may not lead to better business either.
I have NOT bought several items via Alibaba, due to lousy item descriptions as well as incomprehensible text on sellers' pages and the Alibaba site in general.
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Michael Newton
United States
Local time: 01:34
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| Chinese sellers | Mar 24, 2022 |
The last time I did business with an agency in this country, it took six months to get paid.
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| No such a great need for the products presented on Alibaba. | Mar 25, 2022 |
No such a great need for the products presented on Alibaba, and some key words would work well. So Machine Translation is enough, at which Alibaba is good at.
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jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 01:34
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| A lot of Chinese sellers do business in the USA | Mar 25, 2022 |
Jan Truper wrote:
I have NOT bought several items via Alibaba, due to lousy item descriptions as well as incomprehensible text on sellers' pages and the Alibaba site in general.
A lot of Chinese sellers do business online here in America, and some of them with lousy item descriptions still perform well. I've never seen any "incomprehensible text on sellers' pages," though.
[Edited at 2022-03-25 09:03 GMT]
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jyuan_us
United States
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| Do you translate from Chinese to Spanish? | Mar 25, 2022 |
Arturo Villasenor Garcia wrote:
Hello everyone. I'm an English to Spanish (Mexican) translator. Here in Mexico there's a Mexican site similar to amazon.com and I've noticed that a lot of products from Chine being sold there are badly translated. I was wondering where can I mass-contact those sellers or advertise my Spanish translation services for them.
I contacted alibaba service asking if they had a section to advertise translation services and they said they didn't.
Any ideas?
If not, you may have to translate product descriptions into Spanish from English that has originally been translated from Chinese, mostly by non-native translators in China. In such a process, your Spanish translation could be more fluent, but it could also be associated with a lower accuracy. When it comes to product descriptions on a seller's site, accuracy should be considered as more important than fluency.
If you want to become an agency that will use native in-market Chinese to Spanish translators, that could make a difference.
[Edited at 2022-03-25 22:59 GMT]
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