Bosque to English and English to Bosque translation

Troikaa Translation Services is packed with expertise and foresight to provide you top class and high end Basque translation, both from the personal as well as business perspective. Our native Basque translators are experienced enough to partake their subject knowledge in the arena of technical, certified, medical, legal or general Basque translation with much ease. Translation from Basque to English or English to Basque is a complete fun and enjoying experience for us.
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Interpretation Services by Professional interpretor

Our Interpretation service is carried out by seasoned and professionally trained interpreter. You don’t need to worry about the clarity of the language. Interpretation is crisp and clear, with no stammering or breaks in the flow.
You can choose our interpretation services which are offered to and from over 130 local, regional, national and international dialects viz, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and many more.
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Language Typing and Typesetting services Indian languages

We offer very refined and high quality language typing in more than 130 languages spoken across the world in Unicode and non-Unicode fonts or TTF fonts. These include English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Punjabi, Malayalam, Arabic, Italian, German, Kannada, Latin, Norwegian and many more.
Language typing services includes various processes. The processes are efficiently managed by our enthusiastic language typists, who have complete control over QWERTY keyboards. Our typist first analyses the language needs and thereafter focuses on the word strength before committing to client. Furthermore, it ensures stringent quality measures by undertaking proofreading and editing of the text typed by the language typist.


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Translation proofreading and editing Services

Troikaa Translation Services offer impeccable and top class proof reading and editing services for more than 130 languages. We adhere to international quality norms and add value to your work. With tremendous potential of outsourcing in the area of publishing, proof reading and editing of the text is done to ensure and maintain rigorous quality checks.
Our proofreader and editors are trained in carrying out high quality, fast and turnkey proof reading and editing processes for practically all subject matters and in all areas of interest.

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: Transcription and voice over services

Description Transcription and dictation are emerging as new terrain of earning, expanding every day and bring innovations at work. However, these innovations can cause lot of discrepancies in the general flow of content that will not lead to any conscious learning. Therefore, transcription and translation need to be carried out in a cautious manner, leaving no loose points that cause any jerk.

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Finance/Banking/Accounting Language translators

Whether your language translation need is large or small, Troikaa Translation Services is always there to assist you with your document translation requests. We translate many types of documents into over 100 languages on a daily basis, including:
• Employee Handbooks
• Legal Contracts
• Technical Manuals
• Website Content
• Software Content
• Brochures and Catalogs
• Reports
• Procedures
• Birth and Death Certificates
• Marriage Certificates and Divorce Decrees
• and all types of other documents
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Burmese/Chinese/Mandarin telecom translation native

We use only professional, human translators for all document translations. All our translators are native speakers, and only translate into their native language to ensure the highest-quality translation possible. We are very serious about quality and always employ only the best translators.
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Dari/Farsi/Persian Agriculture/Biotechnology transate

Our translation team has worked on thousands of foreign-language document translation projects in subject matters ranging from business, insurance, and advertising, to law, government, software, education, literature, and many others. We specialize in providing document translation services for a number of languages, including Spanish, English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and dozens of others..
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Indonesian/Japanese/Korean Business product tranlation

Large translation projects are often complex and may involve the coordination of a team of translators. These projects often involve editors, managing glossaries, frequent updates and revisions, establishing quality procedures, and follow-up changes. We are prepared to help you out in all aspects of your translation project including: medical translation, technical translation and legal translation!

Birth/Death/marriage/Divorce/licence Certificate translation

Troikaa Translation Services is fastest growing translation services provider, dedicated to providing high quality professional language translation - at excellent prices. We will translate your Birth/Death/marriage/Divorce/ Licenece certificate to any language
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Malay/Pashto/Singhalese Chemical Translation

Our global base of 4,00 professional in-country translators are ready to translate your documents whatever your need. From website translation, technical manuals, HR documents, to signage or even standalone documents, Troikaa Translation can provide your translation, whatever the deadline. For more details contact : info@troikaa.co.in, troikaaindia@gmail.com
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Translation For Government Thai/Vietnamese

As the world becomes smaller, governments worldwide need accurate, quick and cost effective translation and interpreting services. Troikaa Translation really suited to meet all your needs. We're used to handling large scale projects for all kinds of government organisations and have translated everything you can imagine - internal memos, training documents, highly sensitive material, whole websites and everything in between.
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Consumer product Quality translation Catalan/Danish

Translation quality is something that relies upon a thorough project set-up. Some of the measures used when assessing translation quality are taken against certain pre-approved reference documents such as style guides and glossaries, which need to be created and put into place for use during the translation.
Our Quality Plan contains all the steps needed to set up a new project. It covers all the linguistic elements of translation quality and offers a quality guarantee only when all of the steps in the Quality Plan have been adhered to.

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Software Localization Dutch/Flemish transalion

Description Software Localisation is the process of transforming software's locale, interface and support documentation to a target language according to its cultural context and business practices. The look and feel of the localized software is kept identical to the parent software. Localisation is sometimes referred to as L10N (L 10 N) for short. The "10" is for the ten letters between the "L" and the "N."
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Certified Sworn Translation French/Finnish

We can provide you certified translation in any formats and after translation we will email the documents as well as deliver the hard files to you via courier. This will assure that you get the original certified documents.
We can translate certified documents from and to over 130 languages including but not limited to German, Spanish, French, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and other Indian as well as International languages.

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Pashto/Pushto English personel letter/email translation

We provide high-quality services to individuals and all types of companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies around the world. We work nationwide and worldwide.

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Translation Website content Korean language

Our team is comprised of in-house and freelance linguists, translators, interpreters, proofreaders, quality assurance managers, and web programmers, all with a solid professional background in language translation and interpreting.
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Mohd Shadab
Troikaa Translation Services
(India)
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lternate Email: troikaaindia@gmail.com
website : www.troikaa.co.in

low cost/ nominal rates / translation at only $ 0.05 per word

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Mohd Shadab
Troikaa Translation Services
(India)
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lternate Email: troikaaindia@gmail.com
website : www.troikaa.co.in

All Language translation Agency

We provide translation, Localization, transcription,
interpretation and voice-over services. Industries, Automotive Translation, Financial Translation, Medical / Lifescience Translation, Legal Translation, Manufacturing, Translation, Design & Advertising Translation, IT Hardware & Software Translation
Games & Multimedia Translation, For Business, Technical Translation, Marketing Translation, Employee Handbooks, Document Translation, Website Translation
For Individuals, Personal Letters & Emails, Legal Correspondence, Outsourcing Translation, Multilingual Publishing, Subtitling Services, Teleinterpretation, Language Transcription, Pricing and Service, Troikaa Blog, Indian Languages, Assamese, Bengali Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam , Marathi, Nepalese, Oriya , Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu Urdu, Asian Languages, Burmese , Chinese (Mandarin/ Cantonese) Dari Farsi (Persian) | Indonesian Japanese Korean Malay Pushto Singhalese Thai , Vietnamese, European Languages, Catalan Danish Dutch Flemish Finnish French German Greek Italian Norwegian Portuguese Spanish Swedish
Contact us if you have any further enquiry :

Regards
Mohd Shadab
Troikaa Translation Services
(India)
contact : +91-11-9278417331
lternate Email: troikaaindia@gmail.com
website : www.troikaa.co.in


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Guide to using translation agency

When you need a training manual, legal contract or scientific report translated into a foreign language, you can turn to a document translation company instead of freelancer to ensure that you are going to get a high-quality product. Reputable translation companies are known to produce high-quality translations across different fields of specialization including but not limited to law, business, health and medicine, engineering, and the arts. You can rest assure that translation companies will deliver accurate translations regardless of your field. Below are some tips maximize the benefits that you get from document translation services.
1. Evaluate different quotes online Instant quotes are now being offered by translation firms online. Others may require you to send the details of your project and provide a more detailed quote in a span of 24 hours. This can help you compare different companies so that you are getting the most attractive rate. Just make sure you review the terms and conditions or FAQs section of the company’s website so you understand their pricing structure, fees and surcharges that may apply to your services.
2. Review the number of available languages and dialects. Some companies provide general translations while others may offer translations for a specific region or group. You might want to localize your documents if you are targeting a very specific region. A lot of meaning can be lost if a translation is not done for a specific region or group.
3. Use their customer support services. A lot of translation service companies have round the clock customer support services. These services are a convenient way for you to ask for the status of your project and relay additional instructions to your translators. The service will help you coordinate the translation project to the actual operations of your business.
4. Ask for a cultural competency assessment. Cultural competency assessment can provide some insights into the culture, language, and trends in your target region. Others will offer these service for free while some may ask a fee for this. Inquire if the company of your choice offers this since the knowledge that you gain from this report can be used to better conduct your business overseas.
5. Review their guarantee of quality. Many document translation service companies offer some type of quality guarantee that ensures the final document will be fully understandable by a native speaker. Make sure you understand how their guarantee works, and what accreditations or certifications their translators have. This will ensure that you get the results you want consistently.
Using document translation services offers several advantages over outsourcing your work to an independent translator, and you can make your experience even better by learning about the company and taking advantage of customer service support and other services. Take the time to use these guidelines when reviewing different translation companies in order to get the most value out of your money.

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Professional Translation Service Is The Best Way To Go

: Many don’t fully understand what’s involved in the translation process; therefore, you should be well informed before choosing a translation company. Translation Process Well designed translation process is one of the keys for a successful translation project. Our system divides translation process into milestones enabling us to deliver translated documents faster and with a higher quality. The secure, on-line environment enables you to submit documents, obtain instant quote and track the status of the translation process online.
Your dedicated Project Manager is working in the same system overlooking the project progress and on-time delivery.
Any change requests made during the quality check can be submitted Online and will be forwarded instantly to a translator who was working on the translation of the document.
Our translation process enhanced by the latest technological advances allows us to deliver the highest quality service for affordable price.
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Games/Multimedia translation Asian languages

: Our experience in the games industry is unrivalled, working with distributors and developers to ensure deadlines are met. Troikaa, with its continuous quality improvement, total customer satisfaction and steady growth, stands tall in a difficult market, against hard-hitting competitors.

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Technical Translation/translator required Hindi Languages

We specialize in providing technical translation. We use native speakers with technical background to work on your documents for translation. Our technical translators have a minimum of 3-5 years of translation experience. We use native and qualified translators with technical background. We rather collaborate with these translators for many years now. Today Troikaa has developed its own translation memory for major industries like the Automobile, Engineering, etc. We use them to the advantage of our prospective clients. When we use translation memory, you reduce time and cost in translating your technical document. This also benefits in maintaining consistency across documents results in professional documentation work.

We can share our client reference to establish our quality and delivery capabilities. call us at +91-9278417331 , +91-9868012730 to kick start the project.

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Marketing Translation services Japanese/Korean

Troikaa provides high quality, fast turnaround marketing translations at competitive rates. Our award winning translation service is easy to use and trusted by the world's leading companies. Websites Brochures, Flyers, Exhibitions Packaging Email campaigns, PPC and search engine content, Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator,PC and Mac applications
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Human resource Policies/workplace translating agency India

Troikaa provides high quality, fast turnaround translations at competitive rates. Our award winning translation service is easy to use and trusted by the world's leading companies when communicating with their diverse workforce.All our translators are professionally qualified, native speakers and project allocation is based on a translator's expertise. All translations are proofread and edited by a second translator to guarantee the highest quality. Eg : Employee Handbooks, Codes of Conduct , Business Ethics, Health & Safety Manuals , MSDSs , Job Descriptions, Emails , Recruitment Adverts, Newsletters .
We can share our client reference to establish our quality and delivery capabilities. Please write to us info@troikaa.co.in

Website/Content translation Indian market Hindi/sanskrit

Content management system with multi- language interface, Troikaa CMS. Introducing, Troikaa Multilingual Content Management system that enables you to manage multilingual content. Reach global audiences in their local language; manage your marketing content through Troikaa CMS, a multi lingual content management system. More than ever the product manufacturers or service organizations understand the need to have web sites than run multiple languages and enable conversations and messaging in the visitors native language. Multilingual websites also offer greatly increased inbound links from search engines.

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Assamese/Bengali/Gujarati Medical Translation Vendor

Troikaa offers professional translation services for Assamese/Bengali/Gujarati to English and English to assamese/Bengali/Gujarati language. When using our translation services you draw upon the expertise and professionalism of our carefully selected team of Assamese translators. These committed professionals are all qualified and experienced veterans who guarantee 100% satisfaction with their work. We are the convenient one-stop shop for all your translation needs. Each translator specializes in a different field such as legal, financial, medical, birth and death certificates, marriage certificates and divorce decrees, diplomas and transcripts, and any other Assamese document you may need translated.Our prices are among the most competitive on the market. For the level of service we offer plus the outstanding translation you receive, our prices assure value for money. You can find out immediately how much your translation project will cost you, using our
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Translation Hindi/Kannada/Malayalam software/IT Domain

The translation is carried out in such a manner that the meaning of the original text is not compromised and special attention is given to include the exact terms used by the client in the language that the document is being composed in. Also, you can avail services like getting specific software designed in Bengali or related works. We promise to give you complete assurance of quality in any type of work we do at Troikaa, in terms of accuracy, meeting deadlines and efficacy.
We have excellent language software engineers and experienced & quality assurance editors who can localize any software product or website. We can professionally translate any Bengali or English website, irrespective of the fact that whether it is a static HTML website or an advanced Java/PHP/Perl driven website. We are living in the age of Globalization where you definitely would want to localize your product and website into desire language ! It is highly cost-effective investment and an easy way to expand your business in quick time. Instant Quote: info@troikaa.co.in or visit www.troikaa.co.in

Marathi/Nepalese/oriya Translators Manufacturing industry

We also offer services for Marathi/Nepalese/Oriya to English interpretation, voice-over, transcriptions, multilingual market research and multilingual search engine optimization. No matter what your translation needs are, we are here to serve you. Our prices are among the most competitive ones in the market. For the level of service we offer with the outstanding Marathi translation you receive, our price assures absolute value for money. You can find out immediately how much your translation project will actually cost you, using our
We can share our client reference to establish our quality and delivery capabilities. Please write to us troikaaindia@gmail.com if you are interested to talk any of our clients. You can also use our free quote to know our rates or
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Punjabi/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu Translation Engineering Document

we have an organized and complete strength as far as our delegation is concerned. We have specialized teams who have expertise in a specific area like law, medicine, engineering, marketing, etc. These specific teams are given specific assignments depending upon the nature of job required by client for translation. We can share our client reference to establish our quality and delivery capabilities. Please write to us troikaa.tran@yahoo.com.

: Telecom/hardware/software translation agency USA

With a strong background in the Telecom/IT sector, it is not surprising that leading technology companies trust troikaa.co.in to provide a complete localization service. With our dedicated technology team with good number of clients overseas,


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Translation require Indic/Indian Languages

We provide translation, Localization, transcription,
interpretation and voice-over services for over 77 languages 24 hours a day,7 days a week,and 365 days a year. Troikaa provide Translation in all mention industries and field for eg : Outsourcing Translation, Multilingual Publishing, Subtitling Services,Teleinterpretation, Language Transcription, Automotive Translation,Financial Translation , Medical / Lifescience Translation, Legal Translation, Manufacturing Translation, Design & Advertising Translation, IT Hardware & Software Translation
Games & Multimedia Translation, Technical Translation, Marketing Translation
Employee Handbooks, Document Translation, Website Translation, Personal Letters & Emails, Legal Correspondence.

Troikaa an expert partner you can trust. mail us at : info@troikaa.co.in or visit www.troikaa.co.in

Outsource Translation Indic/Asian languages India

We at Troikaa are one stop translation Service provider for our clients, We provide Services in Translation and Localization,Pharma, Biotech, Healthcare, CRO document translation, Instruction manuals, Training manuals, Marketing materials (brochures, product leaflets, etc),Exhibition materials,Banking, Financial, Legal and other related documents, Product package translation,Web site / Multimedia localization, Software Localization, Software module, Help manual, training manual, Multi lingual Voiceovers, Interpretation Services, Language Transcription Services, DTP /Multi Lingual New Media Publishing and more..
Assamese | Bengali | Gujarati | Hindi | Kannada | Malayalam | Marathi | Nepalese | Oriya | Punjabi | Tamil | Telugu | Urdu
Burmese | Chinese (Mandarin/ Cantonese) | Dari | Farsi (Persian) | Indonesian | Japanese | Korean | Malay | Pushto | Singhalese | Thai | Vietnamese

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Automobile translation Vendors needed Bengali/Hindi

Today Troikaa is one of the leading provider of translation content to the Automotive industry worldwide. The company is associated with some top and big names in the automotive industry. Automobile Manuals Translation, Web Site Translation, Service Manuals Translation, Translation of Service Bulletin Communications, eLearning Training Translation, Training Manual Translation, Intranet Translation, Dealer Portal Translation, Catalog Translation, Marketing and Promotional Translation, Event Materials Translation Product packaging.

To request a quote or for more information about our automotive translation capabilities, contact us today:

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Translation outsource Assamese Language

Translation outsource Assamese Language. Our team is comprised of in-house and freelance linguists, translators, interpreters, proofreaders, quality assurance managers, and web programmers, all with a solid professional background in language translation and interpreting.

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Financial translation Service provider Kannada/Malayalam

We have extensive translation experience in the Finance sector, working with leading banks and financial institutes to deliver their portfolio of services to business and individual clients. We provide translation into 150 languages.Expertise.
Financial Reports , Mergers and Acquisitions , Annual Reports , Financial Marketing Material , Website Translation , Financial Agreements
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Translation Medical/Lifescience European Languages

Troikaa also provides medical translation services with focus on certified translation services to medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations(CRO's). eg : Biotechnology Companies, Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Medical Devices Companies, Clinical Research Organizations (CRO's)
To learn more about our medical translation services, or to request a quote or a proposal, please call us at +91-9278417331 or write to us at info@troikaa.co.in.

Translate Legal document by Experts Tamil/Telugu

As a leader in translation services, we have had the opportunity to work with industries leader in legal related fields. We have developed our own legal terminology which we share for our customer requirements. By sharing we spend less time translating, save considerable amount of money and maintain consistency on documents. International Contract, Insurance, Maritime, Taxation, Criminal, Business and Corporate, Realestate, Commercial, Contract translations, Confidentiality agreements, Court and witness transcripts, Depositions, Regulations and laws, Government and legal ruling reports, Letters of credit, Litigation, Legal disclaimers, Licenses translation, Patent and trademark filings, Registration documents translation, Legal certifications and statements, Affidavits, Technical documents to support litigation efforts, Expert reports translation
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Manufacturing Industry Translations German/Spanish

Troikaa works with leading manufacturers around the world to help them promote their services in new markets and work with an increasingly diverse global workforce. Eg : Technical manual, Employee Handbooks, health and safety, Material safety data sheets, packaging material
Catalan | Danish | Dutch | Flemish | Finnish | French |German | Greek | Italian | Norwegian | Portuguese | Spanish | Swedish
Burmese | Chinese (Mandarin/ Cantonese) | Dari | Farsi (Persian) | Indonesian | Japanese | Korean | Malay | Pushto | Singhalese | Thai | Vietnamese

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Translate Marketing/ Advertising Material in European Market

Understanding creative concepts and maintaining targeted messages is vital to the success of international sales and marketing campaigns. We are able to provide accurate and culturally adapted translation into 150 . Our Expertise : Website Translation, Flyers and Promotions, Corporate Brochures , Search Engine Optimisation, International Advertising, International PPC Advertising, Multi-Lingual Packaging , Photoshop, Quark, Flash, etc.

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0 Why most businesses need a translation agency, not a freelancer

There’s a fairly common belief among freelance translators that translation agencies are, at best, something you necessarily grow out of as your career develops and, at worst, a plague to the translation industry. The problem with this belief is that it assumes that all translation agencies are nothing more than paper-shufflers passing e-mails back and forth between translator and customer. Unfortunately, this is true for a great many translation agencies, but as not all freelancers are created equal, so, too, are there great differences between “quality” translation agencies and the chop-shops.
So why exactly should a business prefer a translation agency over cutting out the middleman and going with a freelance translator? Well, it’s much the same question as whether to hire a law office with a team of lawyers or hire just one individual lawyer or, indeed, create a legal affairs office within the company (or any combination of these three basic solutions). In fact, it’s much the same as deciding whether (and how) to outsource any function a company needs for its operations.
The main problem with a business going direct to a freelance translator is that, like with most lawyers, freelancers are specialized in just a few fields and just a few (or one) language pairs. So if a business has a frequent need for fairly urgent translations in a variety of languages, they are going to need to hire several freelancers, not just one. So the problem becomes how to select and then manage all of those freelancers. Does the business know how to assess the quality of a freelance translator’s work? Maybe, but more than likely not. And do they set up a specific office to organize and manage translations and translators? Or do they let everyone in the company fend for themselves when they need a translation done? I think you start to see the problem, as well as the parallels with other business functions….
So sure, some businesses may find that it’s best for them to go direct to the freelance translators (or to do so for specific types of projects), but given the highly specialized skill set needed to execute and manage translation projects, I would say that most businesses would be better served by a high-quality translation agency that can advise them on how best to manage their translation needs, in much the same way that many businesses would be best served by an external law office with a team of lawyers.
And this is before considering the translation-specific issue of proofreading. What about that? If it’s better to cut out the middleman, should a business also arrange for their own proofreaders? Or does the freelancer handle that? If the freelancer handles it, does that mean proofreading one’s own work? Personally, I would hope not (but that’s a topic for another blog post…). Or do we arrange for a proofreader and bill the cost to the customer? If so, then we’re already on our way to becoming agencies ourselves….
Anyway, this is why I think we freelance translators should be careful about bashing translation agencies generally and should focus our efforts on promoting “quality” translation agencies and perhaps even raising awareness about the great many chop-shops out there and how to recognize them. That segment of translation agencies is something of a plague for our industry.

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Accidental Death of a Language

Accidental Death of a Language



On February 4th 2010, most of the world’s press reported the death of the Bo language. With the passing of Boa Sr, the last surviving speaker of the language, Bo became extinct. Sadly, this was of no surprise to linguists and anthropologists around the world as the death knell for Bo had been sounded around forty years ago when Boa Sr’s parents passed away. From that point on, Boa Sr was no longer able to speak to anyone else in her native tongue. She was linguistically completely and utterly alone.

With her death, another piece of the human linguistic puzzle disappeared. Unfortunately, the loss of Bo is a blow to our understanding of the Great Andamanese language family, to which Bo belonged. What is interesting about this language family and the Andaman Islands themselves is the fact that some of these languages are believed to be over 60,000 years old. In fact, Bo Sr’s death breaks an alleged link to a culture over 60,000 years old.

The loss of Bo, and the subsequent extinction of all the other Great Andamanese languages, is extremely sad but nonetheless inevitable. As Jean Aitchison said in her Language Change: Progress or Decay (2001:4):

Language, then, like everything else, gradually transforms itself over the centuries. There is nothing surprising in this. In a world where humans grow old, tadpoles change into frogs, and milk turns into cheese, it would be strange if language alone remained unaltered.

There is little we can do to escape the inevitable. Languages change, languages are born, language die. Unfortunately, we live in times where the rate of language death is staggeringly fast. Of the world’s 6,500 or so languages, 3,000 are expected to die within less than one hundred years’ time. There are few cases of successful language revitalisation, Welsh and Hebrew being two remarkable examples. David Crystal in Language Death (2000) gives six factors which may help revitalise a dying language. He suggests the speakers of a dying language:

1. increase their prestige within a dominant community
2. increase their wealth
3. increase their power in the eyes of the dominant community
4. have a strong presence in the education system
5. write down the language
6. make use of electronic technology

If it is possible for a language to be reinvigorated, revitalised and perhaps brought back from near death then the job of linguists is to always support such initiatives. If we are able to preserve language life then by all means let us preserve it. However, sometimes this is not possible and then perhaps our most important task as linguists is to analyse, describe and document; set the dying language down so that we can use knowledge about it to further research into the general understanding of the human condition.

Pune calling aspiring translators

When a farmer in south India reads a manual of his newly bought tractor in his mother tongue he may not be aware that it was one of the translators in Pune who carried out the work.

Though the translation industry in the country is still in its infancy compared to the $15-billion world market, it has high growth prospects in India with a potential to generate about 500,000 jobs in the country. And Pune is at the forefront of this segment.

With major multinational companies from auto and IT sector opening their shops, Pune has become a major client base for the translation industry.

"Many foreign companies are operating in the country, particularly in Pune. They are in need of translators but apart from the freelancers there are very few companies that operate in the translation industry in the country," said Sandeep Nulkar, chairman and managing director of Pune-based Bureau for Interpretation and Translation Services whose client base includes auto majors like Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, John Deere and SAP, Infosys, Bharat Forge among others.

"Many IT companies come up with software products targeted for the offshore market and the details of the product need to be customised for that region. This opens up a lot of scope for translators in the country," said Nulkar.

According to Ravi Kumar, board member and founder president of Indian Translators Association, though no study has been conducted to find the exact language market size, considering various parameters it may already be a $500-million business in the country.

"Based on NASSCOM reports that India is sharing 5.2 per cent of the ITES market, and according to the growth pattern depicted by common sense advisory, if we take India's share as 5 per cent of the world market, currently language market size in Indian languages may be taken to be approximately $500 million," he said.

The National Knowledge Commission headed by Sam Pitroda had observed that the translation industry has the potential to generate more than 500,000 jobs in India and educational courses on various languages should be given the thrust.

" In India there is a need for specialised courses on languages to tap the potential of the growing corporate demand. Specialised translation technique has to be adopted and students have to made aware about this," said Cinde Delauvaux, a language professional from France who is in the city to conduct a workshop for aspiring French translators.

"Another new trend is that foreign companies that used to approach firms in UK for translating a language to English is reaching out to Indian companies as part of their cost cutting measure," said Nulkar.


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