Language Barrier and "Ancient" Texts Please Help
Hello my fellow weary scholars. I'm looking into some laboratory research that essentially has not been done since the 1920s and if further experimentation has been completed, most of it was done in countries outside the US in the early 2000s.
Thus I'm running not only sparse data sets that my advisor is reallllyyyy keen on trying to tie our current methods to, I cannot get all the information because a few papers are in Spanish, Japanese, and German. Unfortunately I took high school spanish which the final exam was just going to a restaurant and ordering food in Spanish. Needless to say I'm no polyglot.
*Does anyone have recommendations for translating academic papers well? Any AI you recommend? Paid service? I don't have time to binge Duolingo unfortunately and I'm at a pretty white school so low chance on going to a handful of bilingual colleauges.*
My PI is acting like knowing these narratives from pre-great depression era are going to make or break the data even though what we are attempting is markedly different, and the prior data is just nor readily avialable save for the 3 papers I've been able to scrunge up on the topic. I get that knowing whether we have been able to repeat or compare to the past is important but we are doing things so different now I'm not really sure its worth the time, BUUT I'll give it the good ole try. So any help much appreciated.