Translation FAQs

More than 60 of the main global languages, most of which shown below.
Two lists: first by leading letter, then by region.

By leading letter:

Albanian  Amharic  Arabic  Azerbaijani
Belarus  Bengali  Bosnian  Bulgarian  Burmese
Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)  Croatian  Czech
Danish  Dari  Dutch
English  Estonian
Farsi (Persian)   Finnish
French
German  Greek  Gujurati
Hebrew  Hindi  Hungarian
Icelandic  Indonesian  Irish  Italian
Japanese
Korean  Kurdish
Latvian  Lithuanian
Macedonian  Malay  Malayalam  Mandarin (Chinese)
Norwegian
Oromo
Pashto  Polish  Portuguese (European and South American versions)  Punjabi
Romani  Romanian  Russian
Serbian  Slovakian  Slovenian  Somali  Spanish (European and South American versions)  Swahili  Swedish
Tagalog  Tamil  Thai  Tigrinya  Turkish  Tigrinya
Ukranian  Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yoruba
Zaqawa

By region:

Western Europe:  Dutch  English  French  German  Irish  Welsh
Northern Europe:  Danish  Estonian  Finnish  Icelandic  Latvian  Lithuanian  Norwegian  Swedish
Eastern Europe:  Belarus  Russian  Ukranian
Balkans:  Albanian  Bosnian  Bulgarian  Croatian  Macedonian  Serbian
Central Europe:  Czech  Hungarian  Polish  Romani  Romanian  Slovakian  Slovenian
Southern Europe:  Greek  Italian  Portuguese (European version)  Spanish
South Americas:  Portuguese (South American version)  Spanish (South American version)
Africa:  Oromo  Somali  Swahili  Tigrinya  Yoruba
India:  Bengali  Gujurati  Hindi  Malayalam  Punjabi  Tamil  Urdu
East Asia (Far East):  Cantonese  Japanese  Korean  Mandarin (Chinese)
West Asia (Middle East):  Arabic  Amharic  Azerbaijani  Dari  Farsi (Persian)  Hebrew  Kurdish  Pashto  Turkish  Zaqawa
South East Asia:  Burmese  Indonesian  Malay  Tagalog  Thai  Vietnamese

One or more professional native-speaker translator per job, from a combined total of approximately 3000. Selected from our own panel or from any of our 6 partner agencies around the world. All our translators work in one or more subject specialisms, they are are all professionally qualified and vetted.

This means you will have a translation solution which best fits your needs.

We always balance content with speed, which results in an average of about 2000 words a day of high calibre output, per translator. Meaning 10 A4 sides of regular-print A4 paper a day, or about 10,000 words a week.

For all languages.

It is regularly faster than 2000 words/day for general work.

For tight schedules and large projects, we manage teams of translators who liaise with one another and with our office to ensure consistency.

We are self-accredited via documented internal procedures to the international quality requirements of ISO 9001:2015. Among other quality controls, all translations are spot-checked or double-checked for accuracy.
To ensure consistency where it is needed, we use translation memory software for some industry sectors, eg finance, engineering, manufacturing. Not all sectors, though – for instance, for creative and media sectors which are more personalised, this is of less benefit.

For regular translation we charge by the 1000 words and pro-rata in between, based on a wordcount of the work done or an estimate of the work to do. We have different prices for different languages, and in total there are 4 charge bands covering the 60+ languages we do.

For shorter translation, however, we do have a minimum charge of a few tens of pounds for all languages – things such as landing pages, certificates and product labels. This minimum charge covers up to 400 words.

Therefore, how much it costs is quite variable and tends to be on a case-by-case basis.

Send your enquiry for translation via our Contact page so we can give you a fixed price.

For maximum authenticity and accuracy, your translation is done in the country where the target language of your document is the home language. To allocate the various languages to the appropriate countries, we work with our 6 partner agencies dotted across the globe – based in Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, Latvia.
Together we have more than 3000 native-speaker specialist translators to complete your work around the clock, making the most of the different time zones.

All business sectors are catered for, but in particular we specialise in legal/financial; manufacturing/engineering; website localisation, human resource and telecommunications.

German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese INTO English
and
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese FROM English.

We only use native speakers – so they translate into their mother tongue, which ensures their output is the most accurate and most authentic. (Anybody who translates into English is an English native speaker. Anyone who translates into another language will be a native speaker in that language).