Translation Resource - Annual Report Terms

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July 9, 2008· Filed Under Work  Tags: , , , , ,

I had to do a short translation today about a forthcoming financial congress. One of the terms stumped me a little so I had a hunt around the web and came across this interesting .pdf document from the Abaxbank:

Abaxbank Annual Report 2001- Parallel Translation - English/Italian

I know its from 2001, but the interesting thing about it, is that it’s a parallel translation with the English and Italian sections, generally, sitting next to each other. This means that it is a very handy resource for translating. You simply search for the Italian or English term you need, and hey presto, there it should be, sitting right next to the equivalent version in the language you need.

UPDATE 10 July 2008

Thanks to Cristian for spotting errors in the Italian within the document linked to above. Please see his comment below for details. I also examined the English in the document and I have found a few errors too - they are mainly spelling errors which should be picked up by a spell checker.

Please also note that I am passing a copy of this document to a university professor who specialises the analysis of financial reports and similar documents. I shall ask him to check the document for errors too. Should we discover serious errors, either they will be listed, or the document will be removed. I have to admit to being a little surprised at finding any errors at all - I would not expect a bank to publish a document of this nature that is not 99.99% error free.

I shall be distributing this to my Banking and Financial Markets master students, of that you can be sure - once the number and nature of the errors have been established. The above document may still prove useful for anyone who needs to brush up on their financial terminology for an English language meeting in which financial facts and figures are to be discussed.

I hope it proves useful to someone.

Should the above link die, let me know, and I’ll do what I can to help you out.

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4 Responses to “Translation Resource - Annual Report Terms”

  1. cristian said on July 10th, 2008 11:59 am

    Very interesting. But there are a couple of bad grammar errors in the italian parts, lol.

  2. AlexR said on July 10th, 2008 1:25 pm

    Ciao Cristian,

    Interesting too, to hear about the bad grammar errors - a shame - can you say what they are?

    Thanks,

    Alex

  3. cristian said on July 10th, 2008 7:30 pm

    Page 3 and 65, “un’eccellente risultato” and “un’aumento”.
    The apostrophes are an error, it should have been “un eccellente risultato” and “un aumento”, because “risultato” and “aumento” are “male” words. The apostrophe is needed only with “female” words that begins with a vowel: it means that you cut off the final “a” from the article “una”; “un’auto”, for example. No need to do that with “male” words, since the male article “un” is a full word, not a “uno” withjout the “o”. It’s a common error

    Also, “fin ora”, page 5, should be “finora”.

    Sorry, I did’nt want to play the teacher, I just thought that it’s funny that they made such a good work with the translation but they made such a trivial error in their own mothertongue.

  4. AlexR said on July 10th, 2008 11:41 pm

    Thanks for looking Cristian - I also had a closer look after you mentioned the errors, and I will amend my post accordingly.

    Kind regards,

    Alex

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