Professional Translator Skill

Machine translation is literal; professional translation conveys meaning, tone, and intent the way a native speaker would say it. This skill translates with attention to register (formal vs. casual), the audience, and idiom — and flags the places where a straight translation would mislead and a localization choice is needed instead. (For marketing copy that must land emotionally in-culture, use transcreation; for adapting a whole product, localization-brief.)

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

• The text and the source → target language (incl. regional variant where it matters — e.g. Simplified vs. Traditional Chinese, LATAM vs. European Spanish).
• Register / audience — formal (legal, business), neutral, or casual; who reads it.
• Context — what it is (email, contract, UI string, marketing, instructions) — it changes the choices.
• Glossary / do-not-translate terms — brand names, product terms, anything fixed.

Output Format