How to Translate a Cuban Birth Certificate into English for Immigration
Channel: Texan Translation
Date: 2022-04-25

Margaret and Marco Hanson of Texan Translation talk through the creation of a certified translation during this recorded webinar. Using an actual Cuban birth certificate (which has been Photoshopped to change all identifying details), they describe a typical workflow and thought process for dealing with many translation challenges, such as how to best render the names of government entities that don't exist in both the source language and target language cultures, what to do with mistakes in the original document, differences between stamps and seals, how to compare in Google search the relative frequency of alternate phrasings, etc. This lesson is intended for professional and aspiring translators everywhere working in the English-Spanish language pair.