Alice Gerber

# Translation to English (professional style)

I am compelled to express extreme dissatisfaction with the collaboration with this client. It is extremely regrettable to have wasted time and resources. The task was to translate video material from Romanian to Ukrainian.

The problem arose because the client, having absolutely no understanding of the context of the video material, insisted on a completely different interpretation of the content.

I will provide a specific example: in a fragment where the speaker expresses concern ("I am still worried about this, no") and gives a brief description of a young person: "Once, a person, young, healthy, strong" (original Romanian: "Vreodată, un om, un tânăr, cabradu, puternic"), after which there is a short question: "Arrest?".

In this specific situation, after describing the young man as young and strong, but at the same time homeless and illiterate, Speaker 1 asks about a possible arrest, to which he receives a clear answer: "Nothing" (in Romanian "Nimic"). This answer unequivocally refutes the assumption of a criminal past. The speaker clearly indicates that the young man's problems are related to illiteracy and lack of housing, not legal violations.

The video material that was translated is available at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqxFIgd5Gr4 (time segment 17:58), where the phrases "Areșt?" and "Nimic" can be clearly heard, which literally means "Nothing [happened]" or "There was no arrest" — a direct denial of the fact of an arrest.

It is worth noting that the client was provided with a complete transcript of the original text in Romanian, broken down minute by minute, from the beginning to the end of the video material. However, despite the availability of this documentation, the client made no effort to verify the context (even from the provided original) and continued to insist on their incorrect interpretation of the video's content.

There were many similar cases of improper understanding. I categorically do not recommend collaborating with this client. Such an experience leads to excessive psychological stress, creates an extremely negative impression of professional interaction, and, above all, may end with an unjustified negative review from a person who completely ignores the factual context of the video material, inventing their own interpretation and unjustifiably insisting on its correctness.