<p>Talking about grammar, this version is perfectly fine. The problem is the word choice.</p>

<p>As a native speaker, my translation would be "通过母语获取信息比产品价格更重要".</p>

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2017-02-14T10:05:36.180Z
potential confusion .... it may be taken as "通过母语获取信息, 比通过母语获取产品价格更重要".
Henry HO
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2017-01-14T14:14:56.220Z
2017-01-14T14:14:56.220Z
hpwsue
<p>I am using a 3rd party translation company called Gengo to translate phrases and am trying to measure their ability to translate a phrase in English to Chinese, where flow and native quality are the most important.</p>

<p>Given the sentence:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Getting information in my own language is more important than the
  price of the product.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Is this translation of high quality in terms of grammar structure?</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>透過我自己的語言取得資訊比產品的價格還重要。</p>
</blockquote>

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2017-01-13T20:56:31.630Z
compare to Google Translate result:  "以我自己的語言獲取信息比產品的價格更重要.  "there's not much different. Both results seem acceptable but not quite reaching human editor level yet. Why not run a list of phrases of different degree of complexity, so we can compare Gengo and Google more accurately?
Tang Ho
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2017-01-18T12:11:51.883Z
I think the original sentence is ambiguous. Interpretation 1: I use my language to communicate, and I get the information (in any language). Interpretation 2: I get the information by any means, and the information is in my language.
wks
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2017-02-13T23:29:06.170Z
It depends on who are the readers. The translation company gives you the one more native to Taiwanese rather than Chinese.
Lucius Hu
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2017-02-14T10:06:24.053Z
potential confusion .... it may be mistaken as "透過我自己的語言取得資訊, 比透過我自己的語言取得產品的價格還重要."
Henry HO
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is this translation in Chinese of grammatical quality and flow?
# is this translation in Chinese of grammatical quality and flow?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-13)

I am using a 3rd party translation company called Gengo to translate phrases and am trying to measure their ability to translate a phrase in English to Chinese, where flow and native quality are the most important.

Given the sentence:

> Getting information in my own language is more important than the
> price of the product.

Is this translation of high quality in terms of grammar structure?

> 透過我自己的語言取得資訊比產品的價格還重要。

**Tags:** translation

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: compare to Google Translate result:  "以我自己的語言獲取信息比產品的價格更重要.  "there's not much different. Both results seem acceptable but not quite reaching human editor level yet. Why not run a list of phrases of different degree of complexity, so we can compare Gengo and Google more accurately?  
> **username_2**: I think the original sentence is ambiguous. Interpretation 1: I use my language to communicate, and I get the information (in any language). Interpretation 2: I get the information by any means, and the information is in my language.  
> **username_3**: It depends on who are the readers. The translation company gives you the one more native to Taiwanese rather than Chinese.  
> **username_4**: potential confusion .... it may be mistaken as "透過我自己的語言取得資訊, 比透過我自己的語言取得產品的價格還重要."  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_5 on 2017-01-14. Score: 1

Talking about grammar, this version is perfectly fine. The problem is the word choice.

As a native speaker, my translation would be "通过母语获取信息比产品价格更重要".

> **Comments:**
> **username_4**: potential confusion .... it may be taken as "通过母语获取信息, 比通过母语获取产品价格更重要".  

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