Chinese communication

When you need a Chinese translation service, WorldAccent delivers. With nearly 20 years’ experience as a translation agency in the heart of cosmopolitan London, you can entrust your Chinese project to us.

We bring you Chinese translations which are accurate, appropriate and sensitive to the profile of your readership.

A project manager from our London based, multilingual team will look after your job from receipt through to delivery. Our Chinese translators will be fully briefed on the context of each assignment, including your target audience and the role of the document within your communication strategy.

A successful translation pays attention to style, linguistic connotations and cultural appropriateness. When translating from English to Chinese, WorldAccent employs only mother-tongue professional Chinese translators, selected according to their language skills, educational background, subject knowledge and experience.

Simplified or Traditional Chinese?

There are many different varieties of spoken Chinese, such as Mandarin, Wu and Cantonese, but they can all be written in one of two standard ways.

Which set of Chinese characters is appropriate for your target audience depends on where they are. Simplified Chinese is used mainly in the People’s Republic of China, while Traditional Chinese is used mainly in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

We can advise you on what is right for your project.

A complete Chinese translation service

As well as translation, WorldAccent offers a range of other Chinese language services including copywriting, proofreading and linguistic brand-name checks.

We can also provide Chinese typesetting – applying the same exacting standards to translating your visual design from English to Chinese. From advising on the language implications of your initial designs through to producing print-ready PDFs, our London based studio are well rehearsed in producing language-appropriate, elegant layouts. They also have all the technical Chinese DTP knowledge you would expect, from an in-depth understanding of Simplified and Traditional Chinese fonts to an authoritative knowledge of Quark Xpress, InDesign, Illustrator, Word, Photoshop, Excel, Powerpoint, Acrobat and more.

Naturally, translation of your multimedia project or website is available too. Whether your site contains HTML, XHTML, XML, JS or PHP, we can painlessly translate it to Chinese and provide you with code files ready to go.

Two Chinese translation points of interest:

  • Chinese scholar Yan Fu (1854-1921) said: “there are three difficulties in translation: faithfulness, understandability and elegance”.
  • There are over 800 million people who speak Mandarin as their first language.

WorldAccent offers a wide range of translation services in the world’s languages. Contact us via the buttons on the right and find out how we can help with your Chinese or multilingual project.