Translate text so it sounds native, not translated
Translates and localizes text for a specific audience while keeping meaning and tone.
The prompt
Translate the text below.
From → to: [SOURCE LANGUAGE] → [TARGET LANGUAGE and region, e.g. "Spanish (Mexico)"]
Audience and context: [e.g. "customers on our website", "formal letter to a government office", "casual message to a friend"]
Tone: [formal / neutral / friendly / marketing]
Terms to keep untranslated: [brand names, product names, technical terms]
Text:
[PASTE TEXT]
Rules:
- Translate meaning, not word-for-word. It should read as if written by a native speaker in that region.
- Adapt idioms, units, dates, and cultural references when a literal version would confuse the reader.
- Keep formatting (headings, lists, links) intact.
Return:
1. Translation.
2. Notes — any idioms, puns, or culturally sensitive phrases you adapted, and anything ambiguous in the original that I should confirm.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- SOURCE LANGUAGE
- TARGET LANGUAGE and region, e.g. "Spanish (Mexico)"
- formal / neutral / friendly / marketing
- brand names, product names, technical terms
- PASTE TEXT
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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