New French-language Inspection Agreement for your review

[Kate Tarasenko]

Hello, French-speaking Members!

Attached is a PDF of our preliminary French-language Home Inspection Agreement. It would be great if any of you would be willing to go through it to catch mistakes, word-usage errors, etc., before we post the finalized version to the Agreements page for easy download.

If you have any comments, please post them in this thread, or you may email me directly at kate@internachi.org.

Please indicate the original text/punctuation, along with your suggested change, and a brief explanation so that we can double-check things on our end.

I'll be posting a French translation of our Code of Ethics shortly.

Thanks!

[Christian F. Mettel]

I believe the dollar sign is placed after the amount.

i.e. "____________$"

Hope this helps

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by ktarasenko

Hello, French-speaking Members!

Attached is a PDF of our preliminary French-language Home Inspection Agreement. It would be great if any of you would be willing to go through it to catch mistakes, word-usage errors, etc., before we post the finalized version to the Agreements page for easy download.

If you have any comments, please post them in this thread, or you may email me directly at kate@internachi.org.

Please indicate the original text/punctuation, along with your suggested change, and a brief explanation so that we can double-check things on our end.

I'll be posting a French translation of our Code of Ethics shortly.

Thanks!

Did you use Babel Fish for the translation...

[Joseph A. Ferry]

Paragraphe sept qui lit:

"Les parties conviennent que n'importe quel litige provenant de son accord sera classé
dedans seulement dans la cour ayant la juridiction dans le comté dans lequel l'inspecteur a ses affaires principales."

devrait être récrit:

"Les parties conviennent que n'importe quel conflit doit être apporté dans l'arbitrage."

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by jferry1

Paragraphe sept qui lit:

"Les parties conviennent que n'importe quel litige provenant de son accord sera classé
dedans seulement dans la cour ayant la juridiction dans le comté dans lequel l'inspecteur a ses affaires principales."

devrait être récrit:

"Les parties conviennent que n'importe quel conflit doit être apporté dans l'arbitrage."

Joe,

Your French above is not proper which is why a professional translator is needed for proper translation.

I added a paragraph to iNACHI agreement being in Québec and all:

1. Le CLIENT confirme sa volonté que cet acte et tous autres documents s’y rattachant, y compris le Rapport d’Inspection, soient rédigés en Français. The Client confirms that it is their wish that this Inspection Agreement and all other relating documents including the Inspection Report, have been and shall be drawn in French.

[Marc-Andre Beauchemin]

Kate,
this could be a valentine gift to you from : MOI!

Marc-Andre from Brossard,Quebec Canada.

[Marc-Andre Beauchemin]

Marcel,
Just looked at your translation L'entente (convention) d'inspection and I must say that it looks good.
Thank you !

Marc-Andre.

[Kate Tarasenko]

Re:

I believe the dollar sign is placed after the amount.

i.e. "____________$"

Hi, Christian -- Is this true? Some native English-speaking/writing people put the dollar sign in the wrong spot (after the digits instead of before), so I'm just double-checking -- thanks for your input!

Did you use Babel Fish for the translation...

Marcel -- We used a live human being for these translations, but we decided we need more help from someone whose technical know-how is a bit more advanced.
Also:

The Client confirms that it is their wish that this Inspection Agreement and all other relating documents including the Inspection Report, have been and shall be drawn in French.

This is a good paragraph to have inserted. However, you are missing a comma after the word "documents."

Thanks again!

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by mbeauchemin

Kate,
this could be a valentine gift to you from : MOI!

Marc-Andre from Brossard,Quebec Canada.

Just wondering what your wife and kids would think of that Valentine to Kate from : MOI (Marc-André Beauchemin)!

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by ktarasenko

Marcel -- We used a live human being for these translations, but we decided we need more help from someone whose technical know-how is a bit more advanced.
Also:

This is a good paragraph to have inserted. However, you are missing a comma after the word "documents."

Thanks again!

Kate,

This only confirms that English translator(s) should be used to translate French to English; but also, that French translator (s) should be used to translate English to French.

As you most likely know, there was much more than a missing comma in previous French translation's posts of late.

Cheers,

[Kate Tarasenko]

Yes, Marcel -- native speakers make the best translators. Thanks for forwarding our info to Rosemary!

Also, would you mind e-mailing me the Inspectors Agreement that you said you posted on the Forum a while back? It would be nice to have that version to review.

Thanks!

P.S. As far as Marc's "valentine" to me goes, I'm just assuming that all you French-Quebecois are a romantic bunch, and that was just an everyday endearment!

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by ktarasenko

P.S. As far as Marc's "valentine" to me goes, I'm just assuming that all you French-Quebecois are a romantic bunch, and that was just an everyday endearment!

You're a quick learner.

I've re-attached the agreement; it is an earlier version translated with a paragraph added.

[Kate Tarasenko]

Thanks so much for your help, Marcel!

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Thanks to Marcel and every one else who added info .
Thanks to NACHI for doing this .
As I am sure you know Canada is Both French and English and it will be great to have NACHI in Both Languages .
Unfortunately I only speak one but my Kids where raised to both .
Thanks to all... Roy

[Marc-Andre Beauchemin]

Marcel happy valentines to you also, it could also be a gift for you!
I'll make sure my wife and kids know!

MA