第二言語から自分の母語へと翻訳するほうが、その逆よりも間違いが少ないでしょう。の英語

If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes.

If you translate from your second language into your own native language, rather than the other way around, you're less likely to make mistakes.

Translating helps us to know our mother tongue better.

Translating helps us to know our mother tongue better.

It's easier for me to translate from Portuguese than Japanese.

to retranslate something into another foreign language

It is sometimes more difficult to translate than to write out of your own head.

One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages.

This translation seems to be a little off, but it is not significantly wrong.

a remark that a translator added to the translation to give more information

"Love your neighbour as yourself" is a quotation from the Bible.

It's better to be approximately right than completely wrong.

The translation varies a little from the original.

I quite like looking back at my sentences to check which ones were translated into other languages.

I find it much easier to speak French than English.

Rather than murder it in the translation, we shall appreciate it in the original.

At Tatoeba, it is more important that a translation sound natural than that it be strictly faithful to the original.

The best translation will vary more or less from the original.

In translation you must not adhere blindly to the original wording.

Translating languages is very difficult.

He speaks poorly, but translates well

He is a poor speaker, but a good translator.

I cannot say that the translation is accurate.

Fundamentally, you're not practicing anything by translating, so even if you say that you can't do it, once you've set your sights on a similar sentence you've seen before that is more natural yet does not quite convey the original sentence's nuances, translation proves to be an act that is quite addicting.

the act of making an initial translation

I like Esperanto better than German.

That translation took more time than I had guessed.

I might have a mistake with that translation.

There are people who translate and there are people who call each other names.

The word does not bear translation.