Translation

Quickly, accurately

We specialise in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English. And we apply the same stringent quality standards to all 60+ languages which we cover, including Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and African. See our languages here.

Need to switch between languages? In today’s fast-paced world, you need equally fast-paced translation.
Done in the right context, with the right specialist skilled translator.
Often making use of translation software or editing algorithm-based output.

And as always, our vetted, experienced translators have extensive knowledge not only in their language, but also their subject specialism.

How does it all work?

To ensure full accuracy, each translator translates only into their mother tongue.

For English work, our translator team is based in the UK and, for non-English work, is dotted across the globe and we are linked via our 6 partner offices.

And you, like us, probably have customers, clients, tenants, employees, buyers or group companies who are non-British. But who don’t all speak English well.
So when you use their language, you tap into their emotions and make them feel comfortable, more trusting. Which makes them more likely to work with you and buy or safely use your service or product.

The language OF the customer is the language FOR the customer.

Of course, you yourself may be the customer, buyer, service provider or document user, so the document will be translated into your language.

Some of our typical translation solutions are:

product range manuals, user instructions
witness statements, immigration papers, accident reports
certified stamp of accuracy accepted by government and legal bodies
medical reports and assessments
tenancy correspondence / building (dis)repairs
financial statements and declarations
websites, landing pages, corporate video scripts
birth / marriage / death certificates, wills and probate
patent research, property development
human resource manuals
…and everything in between

Translation FAQs

What languages do you offer?

More than 60 of the main global languages, most of which are 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

Who does the translation?

One or more professional native-speaker translator per job, from a combined total of approximately 5000. 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.

How long does it take?

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.

What quality control do you benefit from?

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.

How much does it cost?

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.

Where is the translation done?

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 (alphabetical order) Egypt, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Spain.
Together we have more than 5000 native-speaker specialist translators to complete your work around the clock, making the most of the different time zones.

What subjects do you specialise in?

All business sectors are catered for, but in particular we specialise in automotive; corporate; law/financial/insurance; manufacturing; medico-legal; social housing; website localisation; human resource and telecommunications.

What languages do you specialise in?

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

Are your translators native speakers?

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).