Top 7 Questions To Ask Translation Company

In my previous blog, I discussed how to choose a translation agency. After you have shortlisted a few translation services companies, now it is the time to select the best from the rest.

To make your search easier, I have listed some of the questions which you must ask translation services provider. This will further enable you to find a company that best suits your interests.

Here is a list of some of the basic yet very important questions which you must have answers to before handing over your work to any agency:

Question No. 1

Ask the translation company about how they charge? Do they charge as per words or per page?

Question No. 2

Ask the translation company further whether they charge as per word of the source language or the target language? For instance, if you are getting English text translated into Chinese language, then English is the source text.

Usually Chinese version of the same text takes less space than the English original text. Hence your one paragraph of English might become just two or three lines in Chinese version.

Question No. 3

It is important to inquire the agency about the qualifications and specializations of the translators and how they hire them. Moreover, find out if the translator is a native speaker of the language you want your translations in. After all, the result of the translations majorly depends on how fluent the translators are in the language.

Question No. 4

If you require specific translations such as legal translations, financial or medical translations; do make sure that the translators hold specialization in different fields such as law, engineering, medicine, computers, accounting, finance, insurance, marketing and so on.

Question No. 5

Does the price quoted by the translation company also include proof-reading services by other translator to ensure the best quality work?

Question No. 6

Ask them if they can provide a trial translation and an estimate of the best rate possible?

Question No. 7

Ask if the translation company fails to provide work within deadline, are they going to charge extra?

Whenever you approach your shortlisted translation companies be it Calgary translation services provider or translation Regina company, do ask the representative of the companies these questions. This will help you make the right decision.