Translation from English to Russian and from Russian to English
Reliable Translation Services
Do you need a reliable Russian translation services provider? Well, HumanTranslation could be just what you are looking for.
No matter whether you need English-Russian or Russian-English translation services, we will assign them to the best native speaker of the target language from our pool of time-proven specialists.
How do we ensure reliability of our services?
- Our managers control the translation process at each stage to ensure the project will be delivered on time and its quality will meet your expectations.
- No matter how skillful and experienced the translator may be, we always remember that humans are not robots, so they make mistakes. We have a stringent quality assurance process in place to reduce the possibility of any inaccuracies in the final text.
- We have highly-qualified editors who know how to polish the text to make it shine.
- Our managers know what questions to ask you to ensure you get what you want. These may be the matters of target audience, style, tone, or any other focus that may seem relevant.
- We stay in touch with the translator and customer throughout the translation (if needed) to make sure all aspects are clarified.
- We keep within the budget, offering the best value we reasonably can.
- HumanTranslation is, funny though it may seem, is all about human translation! You may rest assured that you will not get a machine translation quickly edited and polished to look good.
- Finally, a specialized text is translated by an expert with the relevant expertise in the subject, and this is our strict rule. No medical translations made by a legal translator.
All these rules elaborated throughout years of working in the industry make it possible for us to deliver more than you expect and keep our customers satisfied.
Certified Russian Translation
If you need certified Russian translation services, HumanTranslation can be your reliable provider. We have translators with relevant credentials who can provide certified translations made according to special rules.
In what cases do you need certified document translation? Well, if the translation is expected to be submitted to an official institution, like college, court or tax authority, or a person acting in any official capacity, like an attorney or your representative of any kind, you will need a certified translation.
If the document is intended for internal use only and will be distributed, for example, to company employees or stakeholders only, a standard translation will do in most cases.
What is the difference between standard and certified translation?
Well, when you need to submit your document to an official, the latter usually has to make a decision based on its contents. This requires to be reasonably assured that the document contains no misrepresentations or omissions due to unreliable translation. That’s why a certified translation is accompanied with a special statement (also known as affidavit).
The statement is composed by the translator and contains guarantees of completeness and accuracy of the text in the target language and absence of any omissions, misrepresentations of facts, or any corrections that could mislead the official in any way. The statement usually contains the translator’s initials, signature, and seal. Needless to say, the expert should be authorized to make certified translations.
Need certified russian translation? Contact our manager now.
Language Facts
- Russian is a major widespread language that is the mother tongue of approximately 154 million people, and it occupies 8th place in the world.
- Russian has the status of an official language in four countries: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
- International Space Station computers use both English and Russian, and it’s no wonder that astronauts learn both languages as part of their training.
- Well-known Russian borrowings include sputnik, samovar, taiga, mammoth, and, of course, the renowned (or notorious?) vodka.
- There are words in Russian that can hardly be translated, and one of these is Pochemuchka. It usually refers to children aged about five who ask a lot of questions beginning with Why (Pochemu), but it can also denote an adult person who does the same.
- Russian is considered one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. And while basic command of the language is quite a feasible task, mastering the language thoroughly with all its richness and vocabulary is sometimes a challenge even for native speakers, let alone foreigners!
- All Russian words that begin with a are loaned words.
- Russian words can have three letters e in a row, which looks quite unusual! For instance, змееед (snake-eagle).
Language Tips:
As the Russian sentence can be built in an absolutely chaotic way from the viewpoint of more structured languages like English, you should look for logical stress in the sentence to translate it correctly. Remember that new information tends to appear at the end of the Russian sentence, while you will normally put it at the start in English (A man entered the gate. – В калитку вошел мужчина.)
Context and common sense are everything, while dictionary meaning is nothing – if you really want to translate appropriately. For instance, take the Russian word тоска. The common dictionary meaning would be depression or melancholy. And it would be easier to prove the customer you translated correctly than if you rely on common sense! However, the expression тоска зеленая is not about any deep-rooted melancholy but rather about feeling bored as there is nothing exciting to do. And this is just one example to show that Russian is all about reading between (and beyond!) the words, and strict glossaries may sometimes be more confusing than useful.
Punctuation in Russian and English differs a lot, which means there is almost no use trying to check it using some automatic QA tool. These things have to be checked manually by competent editors and proofreaders to ensure a high-quality text.
