free translation: Working With Foreign Buyers? Beware Your Use of Free Translation Software. - 03/25/11 01:51 PM
Are you working with foreign buyers? 
Let's say that English is difficult for them, so you try to compensate by using one of the many free translation services on the internet.
That free software translation service may not be saying what you intend to communicate. 
Of course, you don't speak your buyer's language, so you have no idea what the actual translation conveys to your buyer, and that miscommunication might leave you looking incompetent, or worse. 
A Reverse Example of Poor Translation
Let's reverse the situation, and pretend that you are the buyer, and that you're looking at a home … (13 comments)

 
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