Contract Translation Resources

[heifeng]

Hello, apparently hell is about to freeze over because somehow I have gotten suckered into doing some bit of dreaded dull contract translation. Are there any good references that have a Chinese English version of this, or just a website with this type of law/contract terminology. It's not that complicated of a contract for anyone is somewhat familiar with contracts, so I am pretty sure some generic English/Chinese translations must be out there that I can use as reference material. This is just fairly basic type of 代理招商合作协议书.....

[roddy]

No. Translate it yourself. Nobody has already done my work for me and put it online, so why should you get off

Deep breath, I'll pm you a section of what I'm translating so you can see why I'm allowed to be in a foul mood.

I've never come across anything reliable enough to be worth bookmarking. You occassionally can get versions of standard official contracts - government mandated stuff usually - but in all honesty it doesn't mean the translations are any good and a company I used to work for used to recommend retranslating them, despite in one case being responsible for the 'official' translation.

If a Google / Baidu doesn't turn anything up, you're probably out of luck I'm afraid.

Roddy

[gato]

See here for some bilingual contracts you can download

http://www.chineselawyer.com.cn/html/lovells/index.asp.htm

and here for contracts in English

http://www.onecle.com/

[liuzhou]

I'm not putting that stuff on the interwebnet either!

I've been translating the same document twice a year for the last six years for the same local government dept. and receiving a generous reward twice a year for accessing "My Documents" and reprinting.

You want me to screw that up?!? That's a lot of beer and noodles!

(Sorry got to go to retranslate the Mayor's speech for tomorrow's National Day banquet. Same as last year with a few adjusted figures!)

[studentyoung]

Don't ask me to teach you English, go here for free English lessons:

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/chappelles_show/extras/chap_soundboard.jhtml

Xixi! Don’t ask me to help you translate the contract, but please check the links below for some free and useful materials.

www.yesed.com

http://www.profanyi.com/article.asp?id=139

Thanks!

[lucky77]

this is a very good service. I'm an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles and I've used them before. There is a simple English-Mandarin translation service that is free, but for some services you have to pay. Check them out either way. I have used both the free translator and I have also purchased their legal contract translation service, both of which I am very pleased with. Good luck!

www.worldlingo.com

[heifeng]

Thanks guys!

I actually forgot I posted this a few weeks ago before the 10-1 holiday. Yeah, It turned out to be one of those projects I started to work on and then got it cut and changed a billion times.... but has now resurfaced, so I shall be making use of those links and resources supplied.

Don't worry I wasn't looking for any quick answers or to copy or anything terrible like that, just asking for some resources since I think that contract language sounds a little bit more formal and, well, 'legal'.

Ok, thanks again! If I do happen to find anything worth bookmarking I will mention it.

Deep breath, I'll pm you a section of what I'm translating so you can see why I'm allowed to be in a foul mood.

Roddy, you didn't send anything!! I want to see what your foul mood was about!!!

hey studentyoung do you have a problem with my Chapelle show link!?! haha j/k i'll check out your links too =P