Translation
General, technical, advertising, audiovisual and legal texts
We work with a network of translators with linguistic, conceptual and specific knowledge of the terminology of every speciality.
- Technical translation: Every industrial branch has its technical terminology. That is why it is essential to provide an efficient and quality translation service that guarantees that the documentation will be well understood by the readers, such as machinery instruction manuals, product safety data sheets, medical and pharmaceutical texts, etc.
- Advertising translation: Advertising sector texts require a special treatment. The translator has a much more complex job, since he or she must capture the message and translate it in such a way that the target of the translation not only receives the same information as the recipient of the original text, but also the same sensations and reactions. Cultural references, puns, images, cannot be translated literally, since they will either be misunderstood or the meaning lost, and all the humour and intention of the original message will be missed. The message must adapt perfectly to the culture of the target language. Moreover, the oral message must be perfectly complemented by the visual medium.
- Audiovisual translation: In audiovisual translation and adaptation, the type of text constitutes a whole that cannot be separated from the image for which they have been created. Moreover, in this type of translations you have to adapt cultural references and maintain languages registers, among other specificities. Particular care must be taken with dubbing, subtitling, audio description, localisation of videogames, etc.
- Legal translation:Legal, judicial and financial documents require special care due to their critical nature, which is why the translation must reflect the full contents of the original in detail. Legal and judicial language requires great linguistic accuracy, an understanding of its specific archaisms and an in-depth knowledge of legal topics and terminology and legal procedures.Our translations offer precision and accuracy.
All jobs have two phases:
- Translation by a specialised translator
- Review and proofreading of the translated text
Proofreading
General, technical, advertising, legal and audiovisual texts
In all texts, spelling and typography must be checked, although mistakes in the application of the rules of written language must also be detected and corrected: incorrect morphosyntax, semantic inconsistencies, lack of precision, unsuitable turns of phrase, clichés, etc. Solutions that cannot be obtained by referring to a dictionary or the word processor’s spell-checker.
There are different levels of proofreading:
- Spelling and typography proofreading: spelling errors are corrected and the overall aspect of the typographic text is addressed (accentuation, structure of the chapter, etc.).
- Style proofreading: all grammar and syntactic errors, besides spelling and typography, are corrected.
- Special proofreading: It includes concepts such as chapter development or structure, and even remodelling.
Writing
Webs, blogs, the social media, reports, articles, pamphlets, three-page leaflets, catalogues, etc.
We take ideas, a series of documents or texts and write new documents and optimise texts for websites, blogs and the social media. We adapt and modify original documents to reach the target audience more easily.
All texts are proofread for spelling, typography and style.
Linguistic maintenance of websites, blogs and social media
In the following languages: Catalan, Spanish, German, English and French.
Websites, blogs and social media contain information that must be updated periodically to adapt it to market needs, or else to offer current news about the company, the launch of new products, campaigns, etc.
We offer a website, blog and social media maintenance service that includes writing, proofreading and translation to keep them permanently and totally updated.
Transcription of audio and video tapes
The transcription service, apart from the actual typing, also includes the proofreading service. The document delivered to the client goes through a process in which spelling, typography and style are all checked, unless indicated otherwise.