Multilingual Translation ServicesMany languages, managed as one project
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The numbers behind our work Continuous translation work since 2002, with every project recorded in our own system since 2009. The figures below come from those records, not from estimates.
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▮Twenty vendors or one project?
Sending each language to its own vendor has a real advantage: every vendor answers directly for one language, and you know exactly whom to call. The price of that clarity is that nobody manages the project as a whole. You become the coordinator.
| Separate vendors | One project | |
| Accountability | Direct, one vendor per language | One contact answers for every language |
| Price | Each vendor prices alone: file preparation, minimum fees and project management paid per language | One quote: file preparation, terminology and DTP set-up done once and shared across languages |
| Source questions | The same question asked by several vendors, answered several times, not always the same way | Collected once, answered once, the answer applied to every language |
| Terminology | Each language builds its own; terms drift between languages | One approved glossary, applied to every language |
| Problems | Found by one vendor, unknown to the others | Found once, fixed for every language, handled by the team |
| Your workload | You coordinate files, queries, deadlines and invoices | We coordinate; you approve |
Separate vendors can still make sense: when you already have a strong in-country partner for one market, or a local reviewer whose sign-off is required. We can work alongside them, sharing the translation memory and glossary so that their language stays consistent with the rest. Which model fits which programme.
▮How we run a multilingual project
- One coordinator. One person who knows the whole project answers for every language, from the quote to the last delivery. urgent translation
- Preparation done once. Files are analysed and prepared once, the translation memory and glossary are set up once, and the layout is prepared once for every language, including right-to-left and non-Latin scripts.
- Shared terminology. Key terms are approved in the source and pivot languages first, then applied to every target language. A term decided in German does not come back differently in Dutch.
- One query sheet. Questions from every language go into one list. The answer is sent to every team, not only to the translator who asked.
- A team, not a list of suppliers. When a problem appears in one language, such as a source error, a broken file or a terminology conflict, it is checked in all the others and solved together.
- Consistency checked across languages. QA covers numbers, terms, tags and layout across all language versions, not only within each one.
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We work in Trados and memoQ, or in the client's own translation system, with client-specific translation memories and glossaries maintained across every project. AI drafts are produced with the whole document in view, not sentence by sentence through a machine translation API, so terminology, cross-references and tone hold from the first page to the last. We are not tied to one model: we test models on your own sample files. A named specialist reviews and approves every output. → How we manage projects |