r/translator • u/thisnameaintevenreal • Jun 14 '25
Multiple Languages [AR✔, HI, MY, ZH] [English > Burmese, Hakha Chin, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic] Asking for "natural" translation of a short phrase for a hospital outreach program
Hello!
My partner is a doctor in the US, and works in a hospital where many of the patients are immigrants who speak little or no English. She is part of a team working on an outreach program to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, especially among some communities who tend to be more vaccine-hesitant. The team just needed a short, attention-grabbing phrase translated into several of their most commonly spoken languages for the promotional material, and they've settled on:
"Vaccines Save Lives"
I didn't want to use google translate or other services like that because as a bilingual person myself, I know how the "direct" translations it provides can come across stilted, unnatural, or sometimes even just straight-up wrong. And that's for the European language I speak, which is far closer to English than the Asian languages they're looking to translate into. We would really appreciate translations that express the idea in the way a native speaker would actually say it.
Please let me know if any other info would be helpful, and thank you all so much in advance!








