First, I want to apologize for the confusing signals you have encountered: at the moment, as the ProZ site is getting its facelift, there happen to be two links for those needing help with translation. I'm guessing that you wound up clicking on the link to the KudoZ section of ProZ, titled "ask a pro."

Actually, KudoZ' mission is providing translators who have terminology questions with some help. Translating a whole text of several paragraphs is really a translation job, not support for fellow translators helping each other out. I'd recommend a couple of other ProZ links instead:

1. Get a good French to English translator to handle your job. There are many excellent translators on ProZ. In the case of your text, which really also requires the talents of a good copywriter, this would be especially important. To find one in the language combination you require (i.e., French to English), go to the following URL:

http://www.proz.com/v3/index.php3?sp=wi&sid=

and select French as the "source" language and English as the target one. You may enter other criteria on the following page.

2. You can also find a translator by placing an ad on ProZ. To do this, "Search for pros" on the **lefthand** side of the this or the main page:

http://www.proz.com/

3. I just counted and find you have 267 words in your text, which would come to a mere US $37.38 if you use our fastest and easiest solution: contracting directly for a translation of your text through ProZ's InstantJobs (http://www.proz.com/ijp).

3. If you can't afford a translator, use an online automatic translator. For example:

http://www.freetranslations.com/

A word of warning: an automatic translator only gives an approximate translation of the original. To check if the text is adequately rendered, I'd recommend doing a back translation (translating it back into the original language before making use of it.

Again, I apologize for the mixed signals. If I can be of any further assistance to you, please feel free to contact me. I trust you will find what you need through ProZ!

Yours truly,

Yolanda Stern Broad, Ph.D.
Moderator, ProZ French to English Community

Some corrections. ProZ really is getting a facelift, and I find that one of the links I gave you, above, has now been given a more permanent URL.

1. To find translators:
http://www.proz.com/index.php3?sp=wi&sid=

The InstantJobs URL remains the same.

Best regards,


Yolanda Stern Broad, Ph.D.
Moderator, ProZ French to English Community