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Translation is somewhere between science and art. It is not just looking up words in dictionaries and replacing the source words with appropriate target words. It is understanding a given text and transmitting it into another language in such a way that it becomes a text in its own right.
This is why a good translator translates into his/her native language in this way ensuring the quality (style, grammar, syntax etc.) of the final product.
A professional translator translates around 2000 words a day depending on the difficulty of text and the translator's personal experience in the subject area of the text. Taking into consideration that there are roughly 300 words on a standard A4 sheet, a translator can translate 6-7 pages a day.