Languages Overview
You need:
- A service provider capable of translating or localizing in any language
- Linguistic quality that appropriately addresses the target audience
- Subject matter expertise in addition to translation expertise
Solution: McElroy’s extensive database of linguists
McElroy Translation provides services for all of the world’s major languages and locales, as well as for some of the more exotic languages and dialects. Fact: we have provided translations for more than 220 languages in the past seven years. Of course, some countries generate more translation work with the United States than others.
McElroy is capable of handling a heavy volume of work in a single or multiple languages. Fact: in the past two years we have translated more than 50 million words of Japanese, German, French, Chinese, and Spanish alone.
Our experience covers a broad range of subject matter and extensive technological capabilities. Subject matter expertise is just as important as linguistic expertise in many of the highly technical fields we translate.
With four decades of experience, McElroy Translation has established a strong position within the translator community. McElroy uses translation teams knowledgeable in the linguistic and cultural nuances that are required for good translation and localization.
Would You Like to Know More?
McElroy has begun a series of interviews with top translators to illustrate some of the distinctive features and challenges when translating into their target languages. We have already completed several interviews and will continue to add more languages. We believe this is a useful and very interesting library for clients and website visitors. Follow these links to learn more:
- English – many varieties, still one of the most translated languages
- Chinese – growing exponentially in use, especially for online content
- Dutch – Dutch is a Germanic language, and within this family it is a West Germanic language
- Finnish – two main varieties spoken, “standard language” (formal) and “spoken language”
- French – new words are continuously created rather than importing terms from other languages
- German – distinctive for its phrases expressed in a single long word
- Hindi – the official language of India, there are over 300 million speakers
- Italian – having a very complicated and sophisticated grammar and syntax
- Japanese – unique in having three character sets used together
- Korean – 80 million Korean speakers, large groups in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, US, CIS
- Portuguese – European and Brazilian variants are quite different
- Russian – word order is less strict, but punctuation more rigid than in English
- Spanish – the official language in twenty-seven countries, usage can be quite dissimilar
- Tagalog – the official language in the Philippines, translations can correctly contain English words
McElroy specializes in helping clients obtain translations of the rare and unusual, recent examples being Aramaic, Jawi Malay and Mon. Read about one particular request we had.
