Hi Yolanda, I recently accessed jobs on my second language pair to see if I could contribute and was surprised to see the poor quality of the translations already in place. Even as a non-native speaker, but with excellent knowledge of the target language, I could see errors in interpretation, syntax, comprehension and style, etc. These translations had been jumped on by non-native speakers who had "bagged" most of the long translation. It is then a mammouth task for the native language speaker to pull this together to make sense of it and probably it is easier and fairer to the client if the native speaker re-writes it. There are certain non-native target language translators who jump in to do as much as possible knowing they will get points for it even if somebody has to virtually rewrite the whole thing (for less points). It is happening on a daily basis. The fact that they can't edit/proofread or ccommit the translations once a native speaker has intervened is good, but contrary to what has been said above, I think it is fairer if the original text is left longer for only native speakers to do as much of the original translation as possible before offering it out to non-native speakers. I do appreciate that some non-native speakers are truly bilingual with the required level to make a good contribution, but in these instances, it definitely has not been the case.