Translation Languages
We translate into and out of 52 languages. Eight of them carry enough of our work to have a page of their own, with the clients, document types and language-specific issues that come with them.
A language pair is not a commodity. The translator who handles German railway braking manuals is not the translator who handles a Hungarian court submission, and neither is the right choice for Simplified Chinese product labelling. What we can genuinely resource — and how deeply — differs by language, and the pages below say so plainly.
Every translation, in every language, goes through the same ISO 17100:2015 process: a subject-matter qualified translator, then mandatory independent revision by a second qualified linguist. Terminology is held in a client-specific glossary and translation memory, so the wording you approve once stays consistent across releases and across languages.
If your language is not listed with its own page, it is almost certainly still covered — the full list is further down. Tell us the pair and the document type and we will tell you honestly what we can resource and how quickly.
Languages with a dedicated page
Each page sets out the clients we have worked with in that language, the document types we handle most, and the specific problems that language creates in translation.
Our most requested target language and a frequent source. UK, US and Irish conventions handled separately, not interchangeably.
The dominant source language in European industrial and machinery documentation. Our deepest technical resource.
Technical, regulatory and legal French, including documentation that must satisfy French market-language requirements.
Machinery, manufacturing and legal Italian — Italy is one of the largest sources of industrial documentation in Europe.
European and Latin American Spanish handled as separate variants, not one language with minor differences.
Our founding language, worked with since 1999. Certified translations and deep technical and legal coverage.
Simplified and Traditional Chinese for manufacturing, electronics and regulatory documentation.
Technical documentation, patents and regulatory filings, with the script and layout handled properly.
Full language coverage
The languages we work in regularly, grouped by region. Pairs not listed here are often still possible — ask.
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Flemish, Irish.
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian.
Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian.
Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, Turkish, Maltese.
Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Moldovan.
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi.
How we resource a language pair
The same five steps apply whether the pair is German–English or Hungarian–Japanese.
Translators work into their strongest language, not out of it. This is the single biggest determinant of whether a text reads as originally written.
A professional or academic background in the field — mechanical engineering, law, medicine, finance — not general language proficiency.
A second qualified linguist compares source and target in full. Required by ISO 17100:2015, and the reason most errors never reach you.
Approved terms are stored per client and per language, so the wording you signed off last year is still used this year.
Text expansion, non-Latin scripts, right-to-left direction and font substitution are handled at DTP stage, not left for you to discover.
Related reading
Structural checks, terminology spot-checks and how to brief a bilingual reviewer so you get useful answers.
Which form of certification your authority actually requires, and how it differs by country.
How parallel delivery across 2 to 34 languages is sequenced, and where multilingual launches usually slip.
What to fix in the source before translation starts, so it costs less and comes back cleaner in every language.
Which languages do you need?
Tell us the pair, the document type and the deadline. We will tell you what we can resource and prepare a proposal within one business hour.