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Dear Publishers, Authors and Interested Parties,

Best of the day to you and I wish you the best wherever you may be.

I am writing to you because I understand you may be in need of the services of a specialized professional translator and would like to offer my services in that regard. I specialize in the translation of large works from Russian into English that require a perfect end product under tight time constraints and where there is no room for error. As a translator of books and large literary works I also offer my services stylizing and editing to help improve and raise the level of the end product with the target audience in mind.

I have been serving Russian clients from around the world for years now and have developed a large portfolio in the book publishing sphere, having to date translated hundreds of books in the widest range of subject categories possible: from fiction and autobiographies to huge specialized scientific articles, movie scripts and specialized historical and professionally targeted materials ranging from particle physics to neurophysiology. I am currently seeking new projects in the sphere of book translation and preparation for publishing and offer very attractive pricing.

If you are interested please let me know and I will send you more details and my biography, resume and portfolio of previous books I have successfully translated. I am also a professional radio presenter and book reader and can turn your book into an audio masterpiece if you are interested and offer voice recording services in English. Please let me know if you would like a sound sample.

Thank you for your consideration.

John
+7-901-718-8391
jar2@jar2.com

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Warning about translation bureaus: Currently there is a scam where unethical translation bureaus are running books through Google and then offering them to native speakers for proofreading at a small cost of say 100 rubles a page and presenting them as translations done by native speakers at costs at about 1 000 rubles a page. The problem is that Google and other on-line translation "services" regularly make huge semantic and contextual errors in texts that only a human translator who knows both languages can understand and properly translate 85% of cases where similar synonyms are possible machine translators make errors, sometimes very serious ones. The advent of AI has only made this condition worse where the AI will re-write entire sections due to the wrong synonym being used. For the fraudsters this will come back to haunt them but the customers are left with then having to have their work translated again. Another scam is being carried out usually by members of the scientific community who claim to write research papers in English and merely need to have them proofread when in fact they simply ran their paper through Google and seek to obtain a translation in perfect English for the price of proofreading which is of course much much cheaper.  

Personally I am currently looking for a translation project and any other Internet based work and would be happy to hear from you if you have a large project of 100 pages or more. I will be posting a short list of some of my past work in the near future (as soon as I compile it), if you are interested please write to me at jar2@jar2.com. If you would like to support me, the site and my journalistic work please make a donation on the donation page either to the Sberbank cards or to PayPal which will also help my son recover from the attempt on his life.

There are too  many nuances  involved in properly translating books (other than those that are perhaps of a strictly dry technical nature) and the historical significance in some cases can not be quantified not to mention that actual meanings and subtexts which the author intended to communicate but which are then lost are never in fact actualized. Actual meaning (with its associated connotations, subtexts, cultural and contextual nuances and shades of the true communicated truth of the words at hand) in significance and importance is of course first and foremost when quantifying the importance of the aspects of translations, and it is important to underline that in this case only someone with an educated level of native (or near-native) fluency is qualified to even attempt to carry out such an endeavor. However, meaning is by far not the only factor involved in translating books, with every genre also having its own specificities, but before I continue I would like to touch upon an aspect which is connected with meaning which only a native speaker is qualified to assess, determine and carry out in real time and that is connotation, which I have never seen a non-native speaker capable of correctly determining in all cases. The English language, in particular, is rich in synonyms (perhaps too much so) and every translator knows that from one seemingly benign word there can be dozens of synonyms each with its own shades of meaning, context and connotation and this is where the native speaker reigns supreme for the simple fact that even for the most qualified and experienced non-native translator or interpreter choosing the right synonym when attempting to translate into English can be a daunting if not impossible task requiring at minimum checking in a dictionary and even then with connotations having cultural and popular influences which change with the times shading their meaning, the proper selection is evasive.  

Moving on to the other aspects of book translation that make a native professional indispensable are all of the semantic, grammatical, technical and other aspects that can be studied and theorized on for decades but which a non-native speaker can truly never attain complete mastery in (and for a native speaker requires extensive writing experience in varying fields such as journalism, literature and even poetry), these include: cohesion; elision; the proper transition of logical thought blocks; contextualization; presentation; the proper formality or dignity of words, phrases and constructions; and the proper tone, language, formality and language use associated with particular target audiences. Then there are the more benign but no-less-important factors and aspects connected to: vocabulary usage; spelling; capitalization; punctuation; grammar; tense usage; usage of modals and conditionals; regionalization; "type" of English; paragraphing: use of micro/macro thought markers; and even the proper selection of fonts, spacing and even text alignment (as required by publishers when submitting material for assessment or publication) and finally the overall determination as to readability and the acceptability for target audiences.   

In the penultimate paragraph I mentioned that journalistic and writing experience are essential for the native speaker translator and in the last paragraph there is mention of knowledge which is in the domain of native English teachers, native professional trained writers and those with extensive experience in book publishing. Of all of the aforementioned (what I consider to be necessary) qualifications, plus over 30 years of experience with the Russian language and its specificities, I am unique in that I possess them all and have extensive experience and a verifiable portfolio of wide-ranging, translated and published books (available on request), therefore if you require a time-sensitive book translation and a translator who will give you a professional finished product that does not require further editing or work and meets or exceeds your demands and expectations, then I am the person you have been seeking. I am very affordable so please contact me for  a quote at:  jar2@jar2.com or +7-901-718-8391  - I am located in the Russian Federation. Oh, and with my experience in international radio broadcasting as the Voice of Russia, I am also qualified to read your work and turn it into an audio book. 

Here's the voice: 

Personal/Work/Harlots_Ghost_Extract.MP3

1 ABOUT VOR.mp3

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