Translation from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English
HumanTranslation, Your Reliable Partner in Chinese Translations
Are you looking for cheap and poor-quality Chinese translation services? Look elsewhere: we don’t specialize in them. If you aren’t, see below.
HumanTranslation is a translation agency that focuses on translation services from Chinese to English and back, yielding texts that would be affordable, accurate, and pleasant to read. If you want to expand globally, set ambitious business goals and reach them with the help of our seasoned translators and editors!
Take advantage of our pool of translation and localization experts who have polished their skills for years. Their invaluable experience will help you make the most of your cooperation with your Chinese (or English) business partners. We will deliver quality human-translated texts and assist you in planning large-scale translation projects connected with marketing campaigns or new equipment or software implementation.
Simplified and Traditional Chinese
We will translate into either of these as we have certified specialists that provide Traditional and Simplified Chinese translation services. If you struggle with the choice, there is a simple rule:
- Are you going to target the audience in Singapore, Malaysia, or Mainland China? Opt for the Simplified version.
- Your clients are mainly based in Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan? Traditional Chinese will be the right choice.
If you need to target all of these, you will need to order two translations. There is no way to quickly edit one version to convert it into another one.
Certified Chinese Translation
A certified translation comes with the translator’s affidavit with date, signature, and sometimes seal. It states that the translation was done accurately and no omissions were made. If you need to submit the documents to some official body, you will usually need a certified translation. We have Chinese and English translators who can provide the service to you.
Our Specializations
Our pool of specialists consists of translators with different areas of expertise, and we have been handling all kinds of texts over the years: from books to technical manuals, from pharmacology documentation to marketing texts and press releases, from drawings to legal and financial documentation for business.
Send your document to our manager to determine the area of specialization more precisely and assign it to the right specialist. There are cases when two areas of expertise are combined, for instance, a legal contract turns out to contain highly technical appendices. And there are legal translators who will not handle this as they take only the texts where they can ensure high quality.
Rush Fee
We don’t apply rush fees to our loyal clients. But even if this is your first translation with us that contains a few pages, we can usually handle it quite quickly without charging extra.
However, if you have a serious large-scale project that needs to be done really quickly, we may apply a rush fee to compensate our translators and editors for overtime.
Chinese Facts
- Chinese hieroglyphs were discovered on 3,000-year-old stones, making it one of the most ancient languages that is spoken nowadays.
- One-sixth of the world’s population speaks Chinese! It is second to none in this respect as compared to other languages.
- English speakers find learning Chinese quite a daunting adventure. It takes several years to reach some kind of fluency, and near-native proficiency will still be far away and not even looming on the horizon.
- This is tonal language, and what you say may depend on how you say it! It may be next to impossible for tone-deaf people.
- Chinese and Mandarin are sometimes used interchangeably, but Mandarin is actually just one of the dialects spoken in China.
- While English has a lot of tenses, Chinese has none. It means that you can focus on learning something else, for instance, the 2,500 characters you will need to read an average newspaper.
Arabic Tips:
Avoid overtranslation. Chinese is a very succinct language, and it is natural that you want to “unpack” the phrase and convey all shades of meaning to the reader. We advise focusing on natural-sounding language instead. In brief, anything that can be omitted should be omitted.
Chinese is a language where the meaning largely depends on the context. You may get a funny-sounding string of words if you translate each character separately, but you will not get a quality phrase without understanding the meaning as a whole.
Don’t forget to google proper nouns: sometimes you will get truly surprising results.
Standard Chinese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese? Well, it sometimes takes an interview with the client who orders the translation to make the right choice. Never make that choice yourself as it will result in the client’s failure to achieve the goal and overall disappointment.
