Additionally, and to the possible detriment of the large number of JAT translators who translate into a foreign language but without full native ability in that language, JAT fails to mention that for some types of translation and in some markets, badly written target-language text is acceptable. I would like to draw my readers' attention to an article on the JAT website, Translating in the Right Direction issued as a press release from FIT, a worldwide translation organization, of which JAT is an associate member. The article is fairly clear about the FIT position on this issue. Most often, this is their native language. Most people, including translators, truly master only one language in a lifetime.
True bilingualism is rare indeed.
Translators are highly skilled linguists who generally enjoy learning foreign languages, and they do so with relative ease. They learn to read foreign languages, and in many cases even learn to speak them, but it is very difficult la learn how to write a foreign language so that it comes out error-free and looking like a native wrote it. Of course, there is an exception to every rule. In some language combinations, for example, languages of limited diffusion, a native speaker or the equivalent may simply not be available. In that case, the translator may consider having the work reviewed by someone who is a native speaker of the language into which the document was translated.