Translation from English to Malay and from Malay to English
Professional Malay Translation
HumanTranslation provides professional high-quality Malay translation services that can be tailored to the customer’s needs. What steps do we take to ensure you get a quality translation?
- We employ native speakers of Malay (or English) to get the real language, not the one from textbooks.
- All of our translators have a relevant education as this is one of the elements of the puzzle called “a professional translator”.
- We regularly subject our translators’ work to peer review and give them feedback from editors so that they could improve their skills on a permanent basis. In fact, we take pride in our team and we invest in them as much as we can.
- We monitor our customers’ feedback to see how we can improve our services.
- Each of our translators has one or several areas of expertise, and we never assign a job to a translator who declares he or she can translate almost anything.
- HumanTranslation has guidelines for translators to follow to ensure high quality. In particular, the translator has to do the primary editing and quality assurance by himself.
- As soon as the text is ready, it is sent to the editor who makes a thorough check and sometimes modifies it to suit the customer’s requirements.
- Finally, the edited text is sent to the proofreader for final polishing. This three-step process is the only way to provide stable quality as the attention span and critical thinking of one person are limited. If three professionals say that the text is good, it has more chances to be really good.
- And, last but not least, we do accept texts for revision and correction. It happens sometimes that the customer does not realize his real expectations until he gets the translation and finds out that he has some other requirements.
The managers at HumanTranslation do stimulate our customers to think of their requirements in detail before they make an order to make sure we can satisfy your needs in one go. And we manage to do so in 99% of cases!
Certified Translation
We provide both standard and certified translation services. Certified translation is done by a certified translator who accompanies it with a statement to attest to the resulting translation accuracy and completeness.
Language Facts
- Malay is also referred to as Bahasa Melayu in Brunei and Singapore and Bahasa Malaysia in Malaysia itself. It is a language spoken by around 18 people across the globe, with 10 of them living in Malaysia.
- Malay can be considered a mixture of different languages as it has numerous borrowings from Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Persian, and English.
- English is widely used throughout the country, including official institutions, and the language of science and technology has plenty of English borrowings.
- Malay is also spoken in Indonesia, but it differs to a great degree, and even the same words can have different meanings.
Language Tips:
The Malay language has two groups of personal pronouns, formal and informal ones, and they are used depending on the person’s age, social position, and type of relations.
There are a lot of borrowed words in Malay, and some of them have local equivalents. If we care about language purity, we will choose Malay words. However, borrowed words are more popular and they are used more frequently. Sometimes it would be best to ask the customer about the preferred translation.
If the customer has space limitations or layout requirements, he should be made aware of the fact that the words and text in Malay will be longer than in English, so the original text or requirements will have to be modified.
