Foreign Language Translation Verification Services

How do you know if your translation is working? Sometimes, even accuracy is not enough. Marketing materials, press releases and ad copy fail if they do not persuade.

Our own translation quality assurance relies on in-country native speakers, qualified to write for the audiences and markets they know, supervised by a project management team that embraces customer requirements. Workflow supports the give and take required to make good translation great.

As an international business, we have years of expertise and insight to help our clients vet concepts and cultural context and to provide information so they can make the right choices in new markets.

Translation Check
We check, certify and back-translate multilingual materials whatever the source, so long as you have files in both source and target languages. We can correct and certify translated content from any source by applying our quality assurance methods to the work of translators who are outside our quality control circle.

When we receive your translation, we check and mark it using the tracking feature for 10 different categories in MS Word. With each error, the correction and correction status is also included. Your document will be ready to go once you accept changes in the Word edit function, and you’ll have a detailed change file for your own follow up.

If your translation is less that 97% accurate—which is the point where it is less expensive to retranslate than it is to edit—we will suspend the project and recommend retranslation.

If you are able to provide a creative summary and information on your communication goals and audience characteristics, we can also provide a summary evaluation too.

Back Translation
A translation translated back into the original translation is called a back translation. This is commonly used by advertising directors who want to give their clients and creative team an idea of how their materials are working in the target language. It is also a useful method for checking errors and can be used to supplement or substitute a translation check. Call 1-800-872-6752 to discuss your project.

Custom Projects
We have years of experience designing custom solutions for even the most uncommon linguistic requests. Contact us to discuss your next project. Chances are, we’ve already worked on something similar. Please consider our expertise as your planning resource. Contact us.