Student Talk / How to improve English writing? Learning through reading. [130]

There's another problem with translating.
Different languages come from different cultures, and therefore you must have a certain background in order to fully appreciate the beauty of the language.

Try translating Shakespeare into another language and you'll get what I mean.
Usually the translation would have more words (i.e. needs more words to clearly convey the same message)

Even if you disregard wordiness as a problem, the overall quality just doesn't seem to be on par with the original. The original may be an exceptionally well written piece of art, but I doubt the translation would be.