6 Best Prompts to Improve Your Productivity as a Translator

Elevate your productivity by making AI your new virtual assistant with these six powerful prompts designed to enhance your productivity.
Aug 28 / Alfonso González Bartolessis
Tired of drowning in translation tasks? Let AI be your new virtual assistant!

To help you do so, we have teamed up with Ekaterina Chashnikova, trainer and evaluator of generative AI tools who has been teaching AI for translators and medical translation since 2015 to provide you with six powerful prompts guaranteed to boost your productivity.

Let’s dive in!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Tips for using AI prompts
  • Prompt 1. Create a glossary from a text
  • Prompt 2. Translate a text with additional context / requirements
  • Prompt 3. Translate text from an image in table format
  • Prompt 4. Translation into multiple languages
  • Prompt 5. Help with a tricky phrase/brainstorming
  • Prompt 6. Quality Assurance

Tips for using AI prompts

To ensure the AI delivers the most accurate and useful responses, the prompts we have provided are structured with line breaks and multiple paragraphs. This approach helps the model grasp all the details more effectively.
 
We have also included a persona, assigning a role to the model, and added context to tailor the output to your specific needs.

Keep these simple guidelines in mind when using these AI prompts or writing your own!

Prompt 1. Create a glossary from a text

You are a professional terminologist with fluent knowledge of [source language] and [target language]. You have been assigned a task to prepare a glossary from the following text. This glossary will be used by linguists for translation of important documents. You have extensive knowledge in [subject area] and are able to supplement the terms with correct translations into [target language(s)].

Prepare a bilingual table with all [subject area] terms from the following text and their translations into [target language(s)].

Text to create a glossary from:
[insert the text]

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Prompt 2. Translate a text with additional context / requirements

You are a professional translator specializing in [subject area]. 

Translate the following text into [target language] using the following glossary:
Term 1 in source language = Term 1 in target language
Term 2 in source language = Term 2 in target language
Term 3 in source language = Term 3 in target language

Note that this text is a podcast transcript and will be read out loud. Make sure your translation sounds fluent for oral speech.

Text for translation: 
[insert the text]

Prompt 3. Translate text from an image in table format

You are a professional translator specializing in [subject area].

Translate all text from the following image into [target language]. Present your translation as a bilingual table.

[insert an image]

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Prompt 4. Translation into multiple languages

You are a professional translator specializing in marketing translation in [subject area]. You work with [target language 1] and [target language 2] and know the cultural specifics of the LinkedIn audiences speaking these languages.
Localize this text into [list the target languages] so that it can be posted on LinkedIn. Make sure the translation is culturally appropriate: the post in [target language 1] is appropriate for readers in [country 1] and the post in [target language 2] is appropriate for readers in [country 2].

Post for translation: 
[insert the text]

Prompt 5. Help with a tricky phrase/brainstorming

You are a professional translator specializing in [subject area]. 
Suggest 5 different translations of [term or phrase to be translated] that will fit into the context of [specify the context]. Explain the benefits of each variant.


Prompt 6. Quality Assurance

Review this text and give feedback in terms of:
- readability,
- fluency,
- reading level,
- consistency of terminology,
- tone of voice [specify],
- target audience [specify].
Produce a list of specific errors/suggestions with justifications and avoid a general conclusion.
Text for assessment: 
[insert the text]

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