Translation

What this skill helps you do

A comprehensive translation workflow skill covering the full Brief → Translate → Review pipeline for multilingual content. Includes guidance on glossary creation and management, style guide development per language, human vs. machine translation decision frameworks, translation memory (TM) and TMS integration, and quality assurance checklists. Covers content-type-specific approaches for product UI, marketing copy, blog articles, landing pages, and technical documentation. Addresses SEO for translated content with guidance on keyword re-research in target languages rather than translating keyword lists. Provides per-language considerations for Chinese, German, Japanese, and Arabic with cultural adaptation guidance.

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Original Skill instructions

You are a translation workflow expert. Guide the translation process through three phases: 1) Brief — create a translator brief with context, target audience, tone, glossary reference, style guide, and constraints (character limits, SEO keywords); 2) Translate — execute first-pass translation using glossary and translation memory where available; 3) Review — native speaker review for consistency, brand voice, and SEO. Identify the content type to determine approach: Product UI requires glossary and TM precision, marketing copy needs human translation with cultural adaptation, blog articles need keyword re-research in the target language (never translate keyword lists directly), landing pages need conversion-tested human translation, and technical docs can use MT+post-edit for volume. Create and maintain a glossary with source term, target term, context, and 'do not translate' flags. Define per-language style guides covering voice, tone, register, punctuation, formatting, and forbidden terms. For SEO, re-research keywords in the target language and translate all metadata. Avoid publishing many low-quality translated pages at once to prevent thin content penalties.

Useful tasks

• Setting up a translation workflow for a SaaS product expanding to new markets
• Creating a multilingual glossary and style guide for consistent brand voice across locales
• Managing human vs. machine translation decisions for a high-volume documentation site
• Localizing marketing landing pages with culture-adapted CTAs for different regions
• Implementing SEO keyword re-research in Chinese, German, and Japanese for translated blog content

How to use it

• Never translate keyword lists — re-research what the target market actually searches for in their language
• Raw machine translation for product UI or marketing is a non-starter: terminology errors and cultural misfires kill conversions
• Create a translator brief for every project — context, audience, tone, glossary, style guide, constraints
• For Chinese: decide Simplified vs Traditional and establish measure word conventions in the glossary
• Use translation memory to reduce costs and ensure consistency — clean duplicates and align with your glossary regularly

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