Who can translate in 38 languages at once?

Your company has finally decided to enter new markets – to expand its international presence. Suddenly there’s tons of stuff to translate: documents, software, web pages and more besides, and you’ve got to find good linguists who can translate all of it. Not into one language, but into thirty-eight! Where on earth are you going to find thirty-eight great translators? It sounds like an insurmountable problem, doesn’t it? But, never fear. Keep calm, because we’re here to help you. As a corporate translation agency, it’s our raison d’être!*

Just send us copies of your original text, and we’ll do the rest. And not only the translation. We also offer editing and localising (more about localising later). We can create your web site in multiple languages, produce print-ready catalogues (in InDesign or Quark), and translate product sheets, service portfolios and everything else in between.

We’ve been in this business for twenty-two years. As I write this, we’ve just received orders from two of our long-term clients. One for translation into thirty-eight languages and the other into more than twenty. Translations are needed in all European languages plus all major world languages. Knowledge of the subject matter is essential. In today’s case, it’s FMCG and safety apparel.

We specialise in working with organisations that need immense amounts of translation and localisation – and fast! We are supported by cutting-edge technology and a fantastic team of dedicated linguists, projectmanagers and terminologists.

The files you send us are kept on our server so that they can be re-used at anytime. This means that if we translate something once, it never needs translating again.

Meanwhile, back at our thirty-eight translator example: Imagine you manage to find the thirty-eight best translators in the fields of FMCG and safety apparel, and one of them gets sick. The translation has to be postponed for a couple of months. You find a new translator, but this person uses slightly different words and expressions, and you’re left with an inconsistent translation. Readers have to make wild guesses about the meaning of incomprehensible terminology. The translation is worse than useless.

With our state of the art technology, we never lose previously translated segments (sentences, expressions or terms). If new translators join our team, they have access to all previously translated information. If you work with a well-organised translation agency, consistency is a given: you’ll see the same consistent translation of thousands of pages whenever you place an order.

How it works

Customers upload the source documents, send them by e-mail or give us access to their system. One of the largest premium computer hardware manufacturers in the world, for example, needs to localise its knowledge base. With access to their system, we can do all the translation online. Another client sends a file exported in .xls or .csv format with strict guidelines for us to follow. Others need so many documents in so many languages that they send a translation matrix of the source language documents or upload a complex file structure for us to browse through and analyse (source-language file formats and volumes vary, but we can process and analyse all of them). We then prepare a quote and start the project. If questions arise, we discuss them with our clients and provide support for our translators. Our goal is to provide your business with translation solutions, tailored-made to communicate your message in a professional manner.