"Definitely agree that translations from actual users are leagues ahead of professional translator services, good thought to cultivate that." Not really. In re

"Definitely agree that translations from actual users are leagues ahead of professional translator services, good thought to cultivate that." Not really. In recent month I was very active in translating software and web site from English to German and found a lot of weird and partially wrong translations. Some of those are due to the context free way translation sometimes works. You get the original string and you have to translate it. For example "Sync", but is that a verb or a noun? In English it might not matter but in German it does. Also sometimes you get people with a dialect in, which use different words and even a different word order which might only be used by a small minority but it is not consensus in the language. I think the best approach would be to do both. Get professional translators and use direct feedback from users.