Bilingual captions that survive a governors’ meeting
Practical notes on matching Chinese and English labels in education performance packs.
Parent-governors who read Chinese first notice mistranslated form names immediately. Machine translation of “Form 5 Liberal Studies legacy cohort” has created more than one awkward silence. Build a glossary once, then reuse it across every chart caption.
Match number formats too. A percentage rounded differently in each language looks like two different facts. Decide rounding rules in the indicator sheet, not at 10 p.m. before the meeting.
When Filecornerbase prepares bilingual packs, captions are reviewed by a second person who was not the chart author. That small delay has caught more errors than any automated check we have tried.