Translation and Covid-19: Multilingual Sources and Translation Platforms

12 Jan Translation and Covid-19: Multilingual Sources and Translation Platforms

Translation and covid-19: the pandemic has put translators and linguists in front of a new challenge: translating correctly new scientific and technical terms to make the pandemic understandable for everyone.

1) Translation platoforms
2) Multilingual glossaries
3) Linguistic resources

During the whole course of 2020, traslation and covid had to be developed. Several multilingual resources have spread online and have proved to be useful to quickly and reliably translate the technical terms mostly used by the different institutions.

Translation platforms 

So here are some institutional sources where to find the right multilingual resources, useful to translate quickly and reliably the technical terms related to Covid19 mostly used by institutions:

• The official World Health Organization website offers constantly updated resources available in 7 different languages
• Epicentro, a network certified by WHO as a member of the “Vaccine Safety Net”, provides reliable information in several languages
• The IOM – UN Migration has published an informative brochure about prevention in 39 languages
• The European Commission’s Coronavirus page is available in 24 languages

Multilingual glossaries

Here are some precious links to multilingual glossaries of the translation and covid field:

• IATE, the terminology database of the European Union, the translation of 8 million terms is available in 24 languages
• The Swiss Federal Administration has made available TERMDAT, a multilingual term database with fact sheets translated into 5 languages
• Non-profit organization Translators without Borders has made available a technical glossary, useful for industry interpreters, to translate the most commonly used keywords related to Covid-19
• The translation platform Smartcat launched CovidTM, a collaborative language resource open to all industry professionals

Linguistic resources 

Now let’s close up this in-depth analysis with a couple of links to other useful resources for translating Covid-19:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes available a great load of multilingual information on anti-infection provision
• LanguageAid APS, a free translation platform, created with the aim of supporting from a linguistic point of view the operators who are dedicated to the reception of migrants
• The Jumamap portal, an interactive platform that makes general information about the coronavirus available in 15 different languages
• On EMERGENCY ONG Onlus’s YouTube channel there are several informative and simplified videos to make any official information more accessible to everyone