Translation of Chat History

[Beeo08]

Hi, does anybody here know if it is necessary to have our chat history translated by an official translator like everything else? does that really matter?
I mean, if you do one page of chat history from every month since we met that's about 60 pages. Then if we do another small sample of whatsapp conversations, that can be another tonne of pages.

Just wondering what other people did? or what's acceptable?

 

[Fawzietrim]

Hi, does anybody here know if it is necessary to have our chat history translated by an official translator like everything else? does that really matter?
I mean, if you do one page of chat history from every month since we met that's about 60 pages. Then if we do another small sample of whatsapp conversations, that can be another tonne of pages.

Just wondering what other people did? or what's acceptable?

Just my personal experience.
I included a full one year of chats in arabic and i didnt translate anything.
I got the pr in 1.5 months all in all and my vo is known for being slow

 

[Beeo08]

1.5 months? that's really fast. or do you mean 1.5 years?

 

[ImABule]

1.5 months? that's really fast. or do you mean 1.5 years?

Timeline says 1.5 months

 

[nartcr]

Hi, does anybody here know if it is necessary to have our chat history translated by an official translator like everything else? does that really matter?
I mean, if you do one page of chat history from every month since we met that's about 60 pages. Then if we do another small sample of whatsapp conversations, that can be another tonne of pages.

Just wondering what other people did? or what's acceptable?

Translation doesnt matter for chat histories, however, do tell them you can provide translations if they request you, and that you are not doing it for cost reasons.

I printed out few conversations from every couple of months as proof, along with photos shows whatsapp messages/ skype /facetime conversations.

 

[flx2015]

Translation doesnt matter for chat histories, however, do tell them you can provide translations if they request you, and that you are not doing it for cost reasons.

I printed out few conversations from every couple of months as proof, along with photos shows whatsapp messages/ skype /facetime conversations.

i didn't translate either. the timestamps are more important than the actual messages.

 

[Beeo08]

Perfect. That's good to know. I was thinking that would end up being a big bill. I'm just exporting my whatsapp chat file and printing off sections of that. is that would you guys did for whatsapp as well?

 

[ImABule]

Perfect. That's good to know. I was thinking that would end up being a big bill. I'm just exporting my whatsapp chat file and printing off sections of that. is that would you guys did for whatsapp as well?

We provided the printout in Word format as it shows time stamps, but we also provided a lot of screenshots of the actual chat as exporting and copying into Word you can alter the messages.