Document translation
finance, technical, legal, HR
Annual report, fund prospectus, machine manual, commercial lease, compliance memo, exhibition catalogue: the file goes to a linguist who already works in the field, and a second one reads it through before it reaches you.
2
Linguists on every file
2 000
Words per day per translator
70+
Working languages on the list
1 hr
To get a price and a deadline
What the Grand Duchy sends us
Every job goes to someone who has already written on the subject. That is how your readers tell a usable text from a merely correct one.
Industry and metals
Work instructions, safety data sheets, maintenance schedules, site rules, acceptance reports. In the south of the country the plants buy their equipment abroad and sell their output there too: the documentation runs both ways.
Logistics and transport
Waybills, storage conditions, customs procedures, service contracts, loading plans. Air freight at Findel and the intermodal terminal at Bettembourg bring together shippers with no language in common.
Health and life sciences
Package leaflets, trial protocols, consent forms, reports, correspondence with the competent authorities. A text proofread by someone outside the field shows on page one, and it comes back marked up.
Contracts and company law
General terms, leases, shareholders' agreements, articles of association, insurance policies, loss notifications. When a company based here deals with a German partner, two legal systems meet in one document, and the wording has to follow the one that governs it.
Communication and marketing
Websites, campaigns, press releases, activity reports, customer letters. A message that works in French cannot be pushed word for word into German: it gets rewritten so that it lands the same way.
Finance and investment funds
Prospectuses, management regulations, annual reports, information documents, compliance memos. The management companies based here publish for investors spread over several continents, and every version binds the firm.
The term list matters more than raw talent
A report that names the same line item three different ways across its chapters loses its readers, and sometimes its credibility. So we open a term list on the first job, have your specialists confirm it, and pick it up again on every order after that.
Here a document rarely travels in only two languages. An internal note goes out in French, German and English because the team is built like the country: trilingual at the counter, English-speaking in the meeting room. All three versions have to be equally precise.
Whatever shape the file had on arrival, it has again on return: a word processor document, a spreadsheet, a page layout, a site export. No reassembling, no restyling at your end.
- Term list confirmed by your own people
- Translation memory kept for your company alone
- A second linguist before every delivery
- Same format going out as coming in
Four working principles
A little method at the start, and the number of comments at delivery drops from the second job onwards.
Into the mother tongue
People write in the language of their childhood. A German speaker for German, a French speaker for French, and for English someone who has always spoken it, not someone who picked it up at university.
A reviser who argues
The second linguist is not hunting typos but misreadings. He works against the original and challenges the first one's choices instead of waving them through.
Stored work stays stored
Anything translated for you and signed off by you stays tied to your company. It reappears word for word on the next job, and you are not charged for it twice.
A file you can use as is
Your own document is where we work, not a fresh page. Styles, numbering, captions, cross-references and contents pages all come through the translation standing.
Where your file goes once it reaches us
From quote to delivery your contact never changes, and the name is written on the quote.
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Opening and counting
The file is opened, the words are counted, the repetition rate is measured and the field is pinned down. Anything already sitting in memory drops out of what you pay for.
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Priced quote in 1 hour
You see the figure, the delivery date and who has been earmarked for the job. Should the subject need a skill we must go out and source, that is said before we take the work on.
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Translate, then challenge
The first linguist writes; the second reads the original alongside and disputes anything that looks doubtful. Whatever stays open is settled between the two of them.
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Delivery and feedback
Back it comes in the shape it arrived in, term list alongside. One exchange of comments sits inside the price and adds no line to it.
A report or a contract to translate?
Attach the file to your message. Figure, deadline and the linguist taking it on are known before the hour is out.
Six guarantees on every job
The right specialist
A fund prospectus, a rolling mill manual and a commercial lease call for three different profiles. The right one is fixed before the order becomes firm.
Term list handed over
The glossary your jobs have grown belongs to you. We hand it over in an open format, and it stays usable even if you take your texts elsewhere one day.
Repetitions deducted
Where a catalogue, a product family or a run of near-twin manuals repeats itself verbatim, those stretches are not billed at the full rate. How much comes off is written out on the quote.
No open tools
Not one of your files is pasted into a free translation site. They sit on machines and servers that a signed undertaking covers.
The date holds
The delivery date is written on the quote. If something threatens it, you hear about it beforehand and not the day after.
Confidential from the quote on
Confidentiality starts when the quote leaves us, meaning before you have ordered anything. Deals in progress and unfiled patents make that a condition.
Frequently asked questions
How is the price worked out?
From the word count of the source file, the subject field and the language pair, with repetitions deducted. Once approved, the figure does not move, unless the text itself changes in the meantime. The full grid sits on the Prices page.
French from here, or French from France?
The question comes up more often than people expect. The office names and abbreviations in a text written for a commune in this country are not those of a text aimed at France. The same applies to German, whose administrative vocabulary here differs from the usage across the Moselle. Tell us where the text will be read: that is what picks the translator.
Do you translate website pages?
Yes, either through exported files or through access to your admin interface. Each text returns to its own slot, markup intact, and we do not forget what stays out of sight: title tags, descriptions, image alternative text.
What pace on a large volume?
One linguist covers 2 000 words in a working day. Going faster means splitting the volume, which calls for a single glossary and a single reviser, otherwise the voice of the text changes from chapter to chapter. You get the date before we start.
Do you use machine translation?
Not behind your back. Where a body of text repeats itself heavily, a machine may take the first pass, and the quote then says in plain words that humans edited the output. Contracts, prospectuses, sworn documents and anything bound for publication are kept clear of it.
Get your free quote within the hour
A document or a date is all we need. You get the price, the deadline and the form of certification Luxembourg authorities will expect. You decide afterwards.