Advice needed

Question

Hello everyone!I recently have been involved in a website localization from Russian into English. I did the translation, but i don't feel sure that it's mistakesproof. I would be grateful if someone could take the time and have a look at it and probably point out mistakes, or anything that might be difficult to understand or can be improved. The english version of the website is at www.onwebinar.comAny advice appreciated!Thanks in advance!Nick

Englishmaven · Accepted Answer

Your site looks great, and I am impressed with your English. I do have a couple of suggestions.

Under Businesses, say training, not trainings.

On your home page, don't put a : after "includes. Also, put the first parenthesis on the second line, so it is more logically in front of "whiteboard."

The service includes: video broadcasting, private chat, public chat, shared resources area ( whiteboard, slide show presentation, desktop sharing, files and links), polling tools, videoconferencing

Under Getting started:

Download and install application Speaker
Say "the install application speaker"

I'm a little confused by the use of "webinars." Do you mean webinar page? Or maybe webinar pages?

If you can't see the "Install now" button, or automatic installation fails,
Insert "the" before "automatic installation."
...button, or the automatic installation fails

(For instructions how to install the application see the readme file).

For instructions on how to install...

Students poll, student assessment tools
Say student polls (more than one poll by students)

Student's polls (one student)

Students' polls (more than one student)

I have to leave. I copied your page. I'll go back and look at the rest as soon as I can.

Englishmaven · Answer

Hi. I'm back.

How do I get started
You need a question mark.

I think you mean webinars like seminars, and that is probably right.

When you start the application, you will see a schedule with your webinars, add a new conference by clicking on the button Create. (webinars. Add)

"contains following elements:"
contains the following elements:

Conference – use this screen if you would like to organize an audio or video-conference, or you have several presenters in the meeting. Take advantage of Question - Answer mode on this screen to allow your attendees ask questions in audio/visual communication.

attendees, who (delete the comma: attendees who

If you allow them to broadcast, they will become your co-presenters and will be able to comment along with the webinar in voice. Please, when the video is not necessary, turn off your webcam and communicate in voice.

Note: The quality of video broadcasting depends on the bandwidth of web-conference attendees.

Presenter, co-presenter and attendees are recommended to use headsets in order to control the volume and avoid echo, which may appear when using speakers. (The echo may occur. It can't appear.)

Please, make sure your web-conference attendees understand (delete the comma here) that joining the web-conference requires them to have the latest version of Adobe® Flash® Player installed.
On your video-broadcasting page allow access to (insert "a" or "the") peer-to-peer network. (This dialogue window appears when connecting to a webinar in a browser):

I'll be back tomorrow. Hope this is helping you.

Nikolas · Answer

Hello,
Thank you vry much!
I'm glad to receive your comments and grateful to you for the advice! that really helps me a lot! I'll definetly correct the mistakes you pointed out.
I'm also glad that you liked the website)
Webinars are online based seminars. But the is also a webinar page which is a page with webianrs listed, like a schedule. What woud be the most appropriate way to refer to the page? Webinar schedule page? (the page is at http://webinar.onwebinar.com/). Unfortunately this part uses module that has not been localized in English yet. I'm working on that and hope I will be done within the next week.

Advice needed

Top answer

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

Related Questions