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 mistakes and some advice

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

#2 A client sent me a machine-translated German text which he could not make any sense of. It was only after I had translated it literally back into English that it became clear what was meant. The literal translation back from German to English said "...the North Sea sludge apartments...". What was actually meant was "North Sea mud flats...". 

#3 During one conference interpreting assignment, I got to know a German mayor rather well, and after the session I complemented him on his relaxed delivery which made it easier for the interpreters to do their job properly.

Apparently, he was rather experienced in working abroad through interpreters and knew that he should not speak too fast. He then proceeded to tell me of a visit to Poland which at that time was still communist. He deliberately kept his sentences short to make the official interpreter's job easier. However, her interpretations seemed to be considerably longer than his sentences. When he asked her afterwards why that was, she replied:

"Oh, I did not say what you said, but said what you should have said." 

#4 Advice on using search engines. A search engine creates listings from the contents of web pages. Popular examples include Google, AltaVista, Lycos and Ask Jeeves. Search engines use software called a spider to crawl over your site looking for keywords known as Metatags or Meta descriptions. These keywords are then used to create your webstore's listing. Using search engines well is essential to online promotion.

It's worth spending between £50 and £100 with a specialist agency that will register your website as effectively as possible with all the best search engines and web directories. Just try typing "registering my website" into a search engine to find more details. We can provide this service.