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Five guidelines for using translated material (04 Apr 13)
If you must use translated materials these points may help
Translation may seem the obvious answer to language barriers, but it seldom is, for three reasons.
First, many non-English speakers are actually not literate in their mother tongue or their mother tongue is a dialect with no written form.
Second, many key phrases have no obvious translation; in a recent focus group with Somali women they didn’t understand the translation…
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