Words of clients
I have met many translators in four decades of marketing and communications, but rarely did I feel so at ease during a press conference.
Babel Linguistics is the most effective translation and localization crew that Q LTD has worked with in its 43-year history, and we have worked with many throughout North America. Their intelligence, creativity, and professionalism are exceptional. We recommend Babel Linguistics to everyone who needs excellent linguistic services.
We can always count on Babel Linguistics to provide expert counsel and guidance in support of our global naming and verbal identity consulting engagements. You deal with a team of true experts. Smart, savvy and results-focused, Babel Linguistics are mission-critical to our operations.
We are so pleased with the quality and quick turnarounds for our Community of Businesses. The work of Babel Linguistics reveals an informed and professional team who knows well that good translation means more than yoking words together.
Idea Engineering is very impressed with the translation and Spanish copywriting assistance we've had from Babel Linguistics. The team has an excellent understanding of audience and purpose rather than just literal or unacculturated translation. And we also really appreciate the process, including great communication and fast turnaround as needed.
Babel Linguistics combines the highest level of professionalism and expertise with flexibility and personal responsiveness. They are truly committed to making your requests their top priority and they approach their work with each client as a dedicated partner. They stepped in at a difficult point in my book project and saved the day!
We rely on the team at Babel Linguistics to quickly and effectively turn around layout marketing pieces about our products in North America, in both French-Canadian and Spanish languages. It has been quite a few years of great service and we continue to feel fortunate to have such a trusted and experienced partner.
Thank you so much for your dedicated and punctual translation and marketing support during our reporting assignment throughout the US — a journey of fourteen months on the American roads, from one state to another!
Very grateful for your impressive fact-checking. Heine always comes up with the right word or research to assist my work day or night!
featured work
University of Chicago Press
Le Figaro
Beijing International Book Fair
Services
- Translation services
Book translation: literary (fiction/nonfiction) & highly technical (medical books/manuals/guides, diverse industries). We also specialize in leveraging translation services with new media, including brands and documentation, software/apps, gaming, marketing and training materials, film subtitles, video, and e-learning content in multiple languages.
- Certified Translation
Official documents required by government/USCIS or educational entities: academic transcripts, degrees, divorce decrees, birth records, CJIS-FBI records. Express service available — e-mail your document(s) and details.
- Genealogical Translation
Originals, photocopies, scans, or microfilm copies performed by expert team members. We decipher/translate manuscripts from old Castilian, Latin, and German script — including 17th–19th century documents with handwriting variants written before German spelling was standardized.
- Localization
Localizing and testing software, video games, medical devices, apps and websites — including user interfaces, online help, technical & marketing materials — in the target market's language, culture and regulatory context. We work with text, caption, video, voice, audio, and structured & unstructured data.
- Interpreting
Consecutive and simultaneous modes, onsite, video, and phone (OPI), local and nationwide. Conferences, webinars, conventions, depositions, mediation, patient assessments, press meetings, hearings, Title IX, school IEP + teacher/parent training meetings, and employee training.
- Staff Language Training
Customized language training programs (e.g. ESL, Spanish) for corporate teams, designed to improve communication and cultural competency in target languages for business environments.
- Linguistic Screening
Linguistic analysis, research, and verification — creating culturally and linguistically appropriate foreign content within brand strategies, web pages, apps, marketing materials, and visual identities that help your organization communicate, transform, and evolve.
- Copywriting
We build projects around thoroughly researched, solidly planned content, crafting the words that propel your ideas and doing the groundwork for your branding in a foreign language/culture. Includes comprehensive linguistic analysis of your branding choices for specific languages.
- Naming
Understanding each client's unique competitive situation to test names of products, services, taglines, and visual identities for foreign or local markets. We partner with information architects, marketing, advertising, and trademark specialists through every step of this process.
- Copyediting
We check for errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and usage, ensure style consistency throughout the document, and clear up confusing and awkward writing by rephrasing, adapting, and fact checking.
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