About project
Period: May 2023
Client: Accor UK
Subject: Translations for hotels,Travel Expense Policy, German, French, Dutch
Accor UK needed to update its colleague travel expense policy. Labour laws in European countries require such documents to be available in the country’s language.
My Task Was
Oversee the translation process in three languages and create the French version.
Process
The source text (English) required a good knowledge of enterprises processes and their equivalent in the target languages. Many examples used were UK-centric could not be reused directly, thus requiring adaptation and localisation. Some simple lists of countries and expense caps amounts where listed in their English alphabetical order and in GBP or non Euro currencies: this required conversion into Euro and reordering the alphabetical contents, sometimes editing the final translation as an image file.
- Select translators for German and Dutch (see the list of Services I offer)
- Extract all images containing text and prepare a separate document to translate
- Carry out the translation into French
- Realign some Excel tables in alphabetical order in the target languages
- Gather and regroup queries, liaise with client for resolution
Result
We provided an accurate set of translation that made sense in the various locales.
- The terms used were in line with the ones used in-house by Accor colleagues
- Prices and practices were updated to match each country
- All the images containing text were translated and updated, saving the client hours of amendments to graphic files
Conclusion
Client was very satisfied and left a testimonial in LinkedIn: “highly competitive, top quality and fast“.