A brief introduction to our Language translation services for new visitors to our sites.
- Translation
- Face to face Interpreting
- Telephone Interpreting
- British Sign Language (BSL)
- Voiceovers
- Web site translation and localisation
- Multilingual document translation
There are many tools that can provide a ‘quick and dirty’ translation out there these days but when accuracy matters there’s still no substitue for Profesional Translation Services. For example you wouldn’t want to see some of the following mistakes on your business’s marketing materials! Not everyone gets it right – here are a few random examples.
Sign at a Chinese Zoo: Please don’t hurt the animals while teasing them
“To Take Notice of Safe; The Slippery are Very Crafty”. – a road sign on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace
“Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.” -on a Swiss restaurant menu
“Please take advantage of the chambermaids” – on a Romainian hotel brochure.
“If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager.” -sign in an Athens hotel.
“We take your bags and send them in all directions.” – on a sign at a Scandinavian airport
And of course the classic:
“Please leave your values at the front desk.”
-sign in a hotel in Paris.
Prestige Network is a leading provider of legal language services, providing legal translation services and legal interpreting services in more than 200 languages.
One of our most popular services is providing langauage services for the legal sector. So much so that we have dedicated sections of our new website highlighting our legal translation services and legal interpreting services. We work with Police, solicitors, courts, general disputes, fraud investigation, insurance companies and all other parts of the legal sector to provide high quality legal translation services.
We also offer Legal Translation for websites as well as interpreting from any language to another, ranging from Polish to British Sign Language (BSL) for the legal sector.
There is a growing feeling within the language services profession that government agencies could get their fingers burnt by all too frequently opting for the cheapest provider when they award language contracts.
There is an increasing tendency for public sector organisations to go out to tender for language services – particularly the larger ones – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it’s the procurement processes’ apparent reliance entirely on cost which is causing the most grief within the language services industry.
Poor quality, unreliable services could ultimately cost the Public sector more as a result of having to reschedule appointments with more likelihood of costly mistakes. When the services include Medical interpreting or Police interpreting the quality and reliability of service should be a major consideration.
Prestige Network’s new legal translation services website showcases various language services available and their possible applications – legal translation, legal interpreter, court translation, solicitors, commercial.
The site is designed with ‘service finder’ and ‘quote enquiry/quote request’ facilities built into the site to make it as user-friendly for the legal profession as possible. It recognises and delivers the legal profession’s customised requirements.
Salome Wagh, Prestige Network’s sales manager, said: “We believe that extensive knowledge and experience – nearly 20 years working alongside the legal profession throughout the UK – teamed with accredited standards of professionalism and quality control put Prestige Network’s language services to the legal profession in a league of their own.”
More details about Prestige Network’s legal service is on www.legaltranslationservices.co.uk
Despite worldwide economic gloom and doom Thatcham-based family business language services company Prestige Network is celebrating financial success with the announcement that its turnover has soared 65% in the last 12 months.
Shohreh Fleming, Chief Executive Officer, and Shawn Khorassani, Business Development Director
Prestige Network caters for language and communications needs in the private andpublic sector (including the NHS, local government departments, charities, the police and other public organisations).
The company – run by brother and sister Shohreh Fleming and Shawn Khorassani, along with Shohreh’s husband Anthony – has seen its turnover to the end of the last financial year soar to a phenomenal £3 million.
They now employ 25 staff and 5,000 specialist language freelancers based all over the UK, who speak and translate more than 400 languages.
The trio feel optimistic about their future and are confident that they can carry on growing, despite the recession. Shohreh said: “Our staff are invaluable to us, so we ensure it’s a happy place to work. It’s a great pleasure to ensure employment during difficult economic times.”
Translation Services – Prestige Network