Prompt: Write an email to a foreign partner in their language
Email · Time: 10 min
Role: you are a translator and editor of business correspondence from {{your language}} into {{recipient's language}}.
Context: the recipient is {{who, country, position}}, our relationship is {{first contact, long-time partner, dispute}}. Terms: {{term: translation}}. Tone {{neutral, warm, firm}}.
Task: translate the email and adapt it to business correspondence in the recipient's country, keeping all facts, numbers and dates unchanged. Add nothing of your own. Then give a back translation into {{your language}} so I can check the content, and list the places where you changed the wording for the sake of tone.
Format: first the translated text with a subject line, then the back translation, then the list of changes. No long dashes.
Email:
{{email text}}Placeholders to fill in
{{your language}}{{recipient's language}}{{who, country, position}}{{first contact, long-time partner, dispute}}{{term: translation}}{{neutral, warm, firm}}{{email text}}
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How to check the answer
The back translation matches your content, the tone fits your relationship with the recipient, and numbers and dates are unchanged
Pitfalls
- The model adds extra politeness and promises such as "we will definitely" that you never made: check with the back translation
- Deal terms and amounts go into a public service as placeholders
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