Alright, let's cut through the usual "Kimi speaks 100 languages!" marketing fluff. I've been testing it with actual multi-language contracts and technical docs—think German/English T&Cs, Japanese/English patent filings, Chinese/English spec sheets. The raw translation is... fine. Better than some, worse than others.
But here’s the rub: the real challenge isn't translation, it's *context preservation*. If you just dump a 50-page bilingual PDF and ask "summarize this," Kimi tends to default to one language or, worse, produce a garbled hybrid. I've seen it conflate clauses from different language sections, which is a fast track to a contractual migraine.
My current, less-than-elegant workflow:
1. **Split before you chat.** Manually separate the languages into distinct documents or at least clearly demarcated sections before uploading. Yes, it's manual labor. No, I haven't found a prompt that reliably automates this.
2. **Command with extreme prejudice.** You must be aggressively specific: "Analyze **only** the German text in Section 2.1. Ignore all English text. List the delivery obligations." The "ignore all [other language] text" part is crucial.
3. **Comparison is a separate job.** Want a diff between the French and English SLA clauses? Extract them first, then feed them as a pair in a new session. Don't ask Kimi to do the extraction *and* the comparison in one go.
Has anyone cracked a more efficient method? I'm tired of playing traffic cop for every document. Are we just hitting a limit of the context window, or is there a prompt schema that actually works consistently? The sales pitch promises seamless multi-lingual analysis, but the reality feels like careful manual orchestration. Prove me wrong.
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