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Example of Good Editing No. 4

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Richard Alex Jenkins

Example of English Editing for a Non-Native Customer


Original Text:


Company X presented a webinar on The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) for the Middle East Market: A Special Look into Arabic Localization.


This webinar is beneficial for companies who are looking to localize their projects into the Arabic language for the Middle Eastern market.

So, we'll cover the effective abstracts and the Summary of the Webinar in this article.


Including sharing with you some insights about the Arabic language, giving you a quick introduction to the Arabic diacritics and how they can play a big role in your localization projects, talking about the different Arabic Dialects and how to group them, and what's the recommended Dialects to use as opposite to the modern standard Arabic.


Basic Five facts about the Arabic language:

We conducted a survey for the audience participating in the webinar, and we found that the most famous information about Arabic is a right left language, everybody said Arabic is a right to left language.

And then some people said that it's an official language in more than 20 countries. Then More than 400 million speakers and there are no capital letters in Arabic. Actually, some of the audiences knew some good information about the Arabic language and this was great.


Let's talk about these facts in details


Arabic is a Right to left “RTL” language.

Yes, Arabic is not a left to right language like English. Arabic is a right to left language where writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left. Also as known, Arabic is a bi-directional language with both writing scripts with different directions (left to right and right to left).

And this could happen when writing numbers, in the Latin chips, in the Arabic script.


Official language in more than 20 countries

Arabic nowadays, is the official language in more than 20 countries, and considered as the sixth most spoken language in the world.


Arabic has more than 400 million speakers

Arabic is one of the most widely-spoken languages and the most common RTL language with an estimated 422 million speakers worldwide.




The aim is to strip down the text without losing any meaning.

The edited text gets straight to the point and cuts out pleasantries, awkwardness and clutter.



Edited Text:


Company X presents its webinar to The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) for the Middle East Market: A Special Look into Arabic Localization.


This webinar is beneficial to companies looking to localize projects into Arabic for the Middle Eastern market.


The effective points of the webinar are covered in this article. It shares insights into Arabic, plus an introduction to language diacritics and how they work in localization projects. It also discusses varieties and how to group them, as well as the dialects that can be used in place of modern standard Arabic.


Five basic facts about Arabic

After conducting a survey of the audience, the most well-known fact is its right-to-left orientation. Everybody commented on this.


Arabic is an official language in more than 20 countries, with more than 400 million speakers.


There are no capital letters in Arabic.


Some members of the audience knew other interesting facts about Arabic.


Facts in Detail


Arabic is a right to left (RTL) language

Arabic is the opposite of English. As a right-to-left language, it starts from the right of the page and continues to the left. It's also a bi-directional language that can run from two different directions (left to right and right to left).


This sometimes happens when writing numbers in Latin characters in the Arabic script.


It's the official language in more than 20 countries

Arabic is the official language in more than 20 countries and the sixth most spoken language in the world.


Arabic has more than 400 million speakers worldwide

Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and the most common RTL language, with an estimated 422 million speakers around the world.



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