The core of our business. In the majority of cases, this is why individuals, companies, NGOs, and other organizations approach us – they need something translated. All of the West European languages are covered, as well as Russian (Europe-Asia), Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Most quotes are ready within 24 hours.

An intrinsic part of the translation process. Most clients order proofreading by a second linguist in addition to the work by the original translator. In any case, translations are always proofread by the initial translator on the job.

Getting texts to acceptable standards in terms of style and usage is an increasingly large and important part of the volume of work we undertake. We edit English, Dutch, German, French, and Chinese on a daily basis. Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian appear no less in our workflow.

Agencies around the world also send us their texts to edit due to the quality we are able to guarantee.

We have had so many requests to rewrite content, that copywriting – the creation of new, original copy – was soon added to our offerings. We normally write copy in English and Dutch, including website, marketing, and press release texts.

Other languages for copywriting include Afrikaans, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

A major part of our business. We help recruit and interview native speakers in countries around the world for companies which want to assess the quality of the translations they have created. It’s a people-intensive task, requiring a lot of networking, communicating, and facilitating of processes all around the endeavour of translation.

This allows texts to be ‘validated’ for local populations, some of whose members help us by giving their views on the quality of the translations.

We have provided interpreters for several events, conferences, and engagements around the world. Languages have included English in combination with Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, and Spanish.

We also provide liaison/research services in any of the world’s languages, some of which have recently (2017) included Arabic, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, and Japanese.

A smaller department at Spectrum Translation, we can offer bespoke interpreting solutions for most engagements in most areas of the world.