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Adaptation vs Localization
دھاگا پوسٹ کرنے والے: Carole V.
Carole V.
Carole V.
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May 28, 2018

Dear colleagues,

in your experience, do you consider an adaptation request is different from a localization one? To what extent, do you use a different methodology and/or apply a different rate?
To me this seems pretty much the same, i.e. adapting a text for a specific market (country or region or target group). In my case I work on French variants (Luxembourg, Switzerland) and mostly rely on comparing specifics from some similar source texts.

Many thanks for your... See more
Dear colleagues,

in your experience, do you consider an adaptation request is different from a localization one? To what extent, do you use a different methodology and/or apply a different rate?
To me this seems pretty much the same, i.e. adapting a text for a specific market (country or region or target group). In my case I work on French variants (Luxembourg, Switzerland) and mostly rely on comparing specifics from some similar source texts.

Many thanks for your opinion and best practices!
Carole ▲ Collapse
 


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