A Quality Translation is…

💡Clear

💠 Accurate

🌸 Natural

✝️ Approved

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Preview: The two phases below provide an overview for a team to check the quality translation of OBS.

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Phase One: Language Community Check 💡🌸

Part 1: Prepare for Community Check 🍚

🗓️ 3-5 days

Part 2: Lead Community Checks 🎙️

🗓️ 1-3 days

Part 3: Make Revisions to Story ⌨️

🕛 60-90 minutes

Phase Two: Church Check 💠 ✝️

Part 1: Prepare for Church Check 🍚

Part 2: Lead Church Check 🎙️

Part 3: Make Revisions to Story ⌨️

Repeat Each Check: Perform checks for each story until all 50 OBS are church-approved.

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Keep in mind: Follow these suggestions to achieve a trustworthy translation.

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🌸 PHASE ONE

Part 1: Prepare for Language Community Check 🍚

Objectives:

1: To gather all necessary tools to conduct a language community check (Ph1P1) 2: To find willing participants in the target language (Ph1P1)

2: To find willing participants in the target language (Ph1P1)

👥 People

• Choose checkers to train on the process.
• Invite and gather many native speakers of the target language.
  • Include different genders, ages, positions, education levels, etc.
• Divide the community into different groups, so that one group can check for natural language and another group can check for clear meaning.

🎒 Materials

• A printout or recording of the OBS story
• translationQuestions, read more Purpose of translationQuestions
• A recorder to capture the community’s language suggestions

🗺️ Process

Train checkers on this process:

• Natural language check 🌸
  • Play or read the story to the community group.
  • Ask members to stop the story when the language is not natural.
  • Record how the members say the words or phrases to make it natural.
• Clear meaning check 💡
  • Play or read the entire story to the community group.
  • Ask corresponding translation questions to the group
  • Record any wrong or unclear answers as that indicates where the meaning is not clear

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Suggested Ministry Integration:

Invite people beyond the translation team to your community check — neighbors, youth, elders, market friends. Choose people who have never heard these stories in their heart language. Who will hear God's Word for the first time because you invited them?

🗣️ Oral tip: No one needs to read — just play or tell the story aloud and let people respond in their own words.

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Part 2: Lead a Language Community Check 🎙️

Objectives:

1: To check the translation for natural language (Ph1P2) 2: To check the translation for clear meaning (Ph1P2)

2: To check the translation for clear meaning (Ph1P2)

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