• You have a text that needs to be translated into English, you yourself or an employee in your company already has some English but written English can be a problem.

• I suggest the following. Purchase a translation program especially designed for websites. Now, you may remember me saying on the introduction page that these programs do not offer the best results. This is where the human factor plays a role.

• The program will translate your text. The result, however, may not exactly be what you had hoped for. The word order in the text or the meaning may be mixed up or lost respectively.

• Next step: Clear up incomprehensible parts of the text yourself, here's where your English knowledge, or that of one of your other employees, comes into fruition. Now, bear with me, hire a native-speaker, at best a student (they are cheap, sometimes free if you offer them an internship) to review and clean-up your text. And that's it! Not convinced....

• I judge that sending any length of text to a freelance translator will take at least twice as long as a trained employee who is familiar with the texts and the functionality of the translation program and whose task it is to merely check over the text for accuracy and grammar. You should, of course, make sure your student/apprentice has the proper credentials.

• Even if you decide against this method, consider machine-translating your text and proofreading it yourself for anything that simply isn't right. Then send it to a translation company for proofreading. Proofreading is after all cheaper than translating.
   

• If you still prefer to have a freelance translator translate your documents, click here.

• Or if you wish to have a translation agency translate your documents, then have a look at my recommendations:

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