Poll: How often is your translation returned to you in order to approve the reviewer's changes? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How often is your translation returned to you in order to approve the reviewer's changes?".
This poll was originally submitted by Edwin den Boer. View the poll results »
| | | | Lieven Malaise 
Belgium
Local time: 12:02
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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My customers don't work that way. I have two customers that make reviewers assign a score to the reviewed translations, but that's it. The reviewer's version is the final version without further intervention of the translator.
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A small number of my customers (direct clients and translation agencies) ask for a ready-to-print service (and pay for it), so these texts are reviewed in-house. Regarding most of my customers I ignore if my work is proofread, reviewed or edited or not, with two exceptions and in these cases they do ask for my approval.
| | | | Liena V.
Latvia
Local time: 13:02
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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With one client – always. It's done on an online platform, so I can just take a quick look and easily accept or reject the changes in no time.
For others – rarely and sometimes I don't even know if there is any review at all.
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Ahmadreza Karami
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 15:02
English to Persian (Farsi)
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Most of my customers are positive about the result, as I sometimes explain and present a translated sample of their final translation while translating. This makes it so that any changes required would be addressed in early stages of the project.
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 12:02
French to English
My direct clients often ask me questions. I actually encourage it, because it's the best way of making sure they don't just make executive decisions and introduce mistakes. It's included in the price, in that I charge a fair bit over my agency rate.
Agency-wise, there's just one where I sometimes get a revised version of my translation. Not to approve but for information. The changes are mostly subjective.
When I worked in-house, we used to proofread each other's work... See more My direct clients often ask me questions. I actually encourage it, because it's the best way of making sure they don't just make executive decisions and introduce mistakes. It's included in the price, in that I charge a fair bit over my agency rate.
Agency-wise, there's just one where I sometimes get a revised version of my translation. Not to approve but for information. The changes are mostly subjective.
When I worked in-house, we used to proofread each other's work and go through the corrections together, and that was very fruitful. We'd discuss all of the proofreader's suggestions and the end product was always better. We all learned a lot from each other. ▲ Collapse
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But it does happen. It depends on the agency's set procedures. A couple of agencies have the custom of returning the reviewed documents and asking for my approval, or I review a translation, which gets forwarded to the translator for approval.
It's a bit waste of time, but it might be fair enough, because sometimes reviewers actually make incorrect changes.
But I have learned to forget about that - as long as I get paid for my part and the client still continues to send me work, I'm... See more But it does happen. It depends on the agency's set procedures. A couple of agencies have the custom of returning the reviewed documents and asking for my approval, or I review a translation, which gets forwarded to the translator for approval.
It's a bit waste of time, but it might be fair enough, because sometimes reviewers actually make incorrect changes.
But I have learned to forget about that - as long as I get paid for my part and the client still continues to send me work, I'm fine.  ▲ Collapse
| | | | Liena V.
Latvia
Local time: 13:02
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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Yetta Jensen Bogarde wrote:
It's a bit waste of time, but it might be fair enough, because sometimes reviewers actually make incorrect changes.
I agree. It typically happens when the reviewer is an employee of the end client and no expert in languages or there are random reviewers who may not be very familiar with the client's style/terminology and only cause inconsistencies with their corrections. I am not excited about it but I can see the use. The worst is when I just receive a "feedback" full of preferential changes and no say over the final version or have to waste my time commenting everything.
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Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Costa Rica
Local time: 05:02
Member (Oct 2026)
English to Spanish
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When I have translated some texts, I have received an email with a short message from my colleague or editor about how to improve the translation. Sometimes, I can agree or disagree with those changes, so I let them know my opinion.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 12:02
Spanish to English
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Very rarely. I can recall it occurring once or twice back in the day, when I occasionally still worked with agencies, but not for several years now.
[Edited at 2025-04-26 07:14 GMT]
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