Accurate, Professional, Confidential, On time translation

Clear, unambiguous translation is crucial to the quality of foreign communication. Poor quality translations can result in misunderstandings, delays, lost business and even lawsuits.

Staff or agents with a knowledge of languages can often understand the gist of a foreign text or deal with simple correspondence. However, because a person speaks a language fluently, it does not necessarily mean that he/she can translate documents into the language, especially ones of a complex legal or technical nature. We have many years experience of translating documents of all kinds, into and from all major world languages, so why not entrust our professional translators?

We provide a fast, high quality, confidential translation service at competitive rates. We will work with your staff to ensure we understand your company and its products. We will build up glossaries, both manually and with specialised software, thereby ensuring that key words and phrases are translated consistently in all your main languages, every time.

We can manage your multilingual projects, from conception and design through to delivery of the final translated documents. We will localise your software, product and sales literature to ensure that they are tailored to the relevant markets.

For a fixed-price quotation, simply send us the texts and we will get straight back to you.

Interpreting - Meeting your requirements

For meetings, works councils, exhibitions, guided tours, court work and conferences, we provide the complete interpreting service.

Our team of well-qualified interpreters comprises both experienced local linguists, who can respond quickly to provide consecutive interpreting at a meeting or for a videoconference call, and international interpreters who work worldwide to provide simultaneous interpreting at major international conferences and workshops.

We can provide all the interpreting equipment you may need, including sound-proofed booths, a full sound and amplification system, cordless
headsets, microphones, recording equipment and tour-guide systems.

Language information and mistakes

• Although Hindi is rated as the third most widely spoken language in the world, English is actually the most commonly used in India. It is the official language for trade and tourism, government, the media and secondary and university education. Officially more than 200,000 Indians have English as their mother tongue. Furthermore, large numbers (40 million plus) use it as their daily working language.

• The world's most translated item is the Holy Bible. The current version is the product of a number of translations and re-translations all undertaken by monks in the Middle Ages, mostly from Latin. It is said that a monk might have devoted his entire monastic life to translating and crafting his allocated book.

• NASA's Voyager which is now heading at great speed towards the nearest galaxy has a message on board for any aliens who may stumble across it. The message was devised by a team of experts and had to communicate in the simplest way some essential information about us earthlings. This taxed the brains of the NASA team for more than two years before they came up with something considered suitable. It has to be hoped that the Alien Translation Company given the task of interpreting this take an appreciably shorter time to make sense of it and get the work back!

• In German, it is important to spell the small word "sie" correctly, it means "she" or "they". When spelt with a capital "S", however, it is the polite address form for "you". Accordingly, the following German sentence: 
 
Wenn die Seitenwände aus Metall bestehen und starr montiert sind, können
Sie durch ein nichtmetallisches Material ersetzt werden.

This means in English:

"When the sidewalls are made from metal and rigidly mounted, you could be replaced by a non-metallic material."