Given the nature of translation work, editing by a native speaker of the foreign language is in some cases a necessary stage, and the need can arise when translating both from and into Russian. Involving a native-speaking linguist is particularly relevant for texts where it is critical to find a fully adequate equivalent: a word or another language unit that matches the original in range and content of meaning.
A professional translator's glossary is constantly growing, and a specialist may have an excellent command of a very rich vocabulary. Yet however thorough the knowledge and however extensive the experience, native-speaker editing is needed wherever the fullness and variety of linguistic means shape the style of a text. Dialect words, polysemy, metaphor, wordplay, neologisms, slang and other features of language do not tolerate a mechanical search for equivalents, or do not allow for one at all. Often one simply has to feel and grasp the shades of meaning that the author puts into a particular word or phrase. It is the combination of these shades, the play of meanings and the contrast between them that can create the internal tension of a work and the dynamics of the author's thought in the text. A native speaker can sense all of this where a translator working from the original is not always prepared to. It is no coincidence that a considerable share of such texts is made up of fiction, journalism and advertising.
At our bureau, native-speaker editing is a necessary step at a certain stage of work on texts whose specifics call for the involvement of our colleagues abroad. The priority we follow in any task is absolute accuracy of translation while preserving the stylistic and other features of the text. Thanks to the high professionalism of our bureau's staff and our foreign colleagues, we always guarantee an exemplary result.