A Quality Translation is…

💡Clear/Understandable

💠 Accurate/Trustworthy

🌸 Natural/Appealing

⛪ Approved/Appropriate

<aside> 🔍 Preview: The two phases below provide an overview for a team to check the quality translation of OBS.

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Phase One: Language Community Check 💡🌸

Part 1: Prepare for Community Check 🍚

🗓️ 3-5 days

Part 2: Lead Community Checks 🎙️

🗓️ 1-3 days

Part 3: Make Revisions to Story ⌨️

🕛 60-90 minutes

Phase Two: Church Check 💠 ⛪

Part 1: Prepare for Church Check 🍚

Part 2: Lead Church Check 🎙️

Part 3: Make Revisions to Story ⌨️

Repeat Each Check: Perform checks for each story until all 50 OBS are church-approved.

<aside> ✅ Keep in mind: Follow these suggestions to achieve a trustworthy translation.

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<aside> 💡 🌸 PHASE ONE

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Part 1: Prepare for Language Community Check 🍚

Objectives:

• To gather all necessary tools to conduct a language community check
• To find willing participants in the target language

👥 People

• Choose checkers from the translation team to train on the process.
• Invite and gather many native speakers of the target language.
  • Include different genders, ages, positions, education levels, etc.
• Divide the community into different groups, so that one group can check for natural/appealing language and another group can check for clear/understandable meaning.

🎒 Materials

• A printout or recording of the OBS story
• translationQuestions, read more Purpose of translationQuestions
• A recorder to capture the community’s language suggestions

🗺️ Process

Train checkers from the translation team on this process:

• Natural/Appealing language check 🌸
  • Play or read the story to the community group.
  • Ask members to stop the story when the language is not natural.
  • Record how the members say the words or phrases to make it natural.
• Clear/Understandable meaning check 💡
  • Play or read the entire story to the community group.
  • Ask corresponding translation questions to the group
  • Record any wrong or unclear answers as that indicates where the meaning is not clear

Part 2: Lead a Language Community Check 🎙️

Objectives:

• To check the translation for natural/appealing language
• To check the translation for clear/understandable meaning

🗺️ Process

• Natural/appealing language check 🌸
  • Play or read the story to the community group.
  • Ask members to stop the story when the language is not how they would say it.
  • Record how the members say the words or phrases to make it sound like a speaker of their language.

🗺️ Process

• Clear/understandable meaning check 💡
  • Play or read the entire story to the community group.
  • Ask corresponding translation questions to the group
  • Record any wrong or unclear answers as that indicates where the meaning is not clear

Part 3: Make Revisions to the Story ⌨️

Objective:

• To revise the translation for a story whose language is more natural and whose meaning is clearer.