Translation services for business and organisations

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Chinese translation

When you need a Chinese translation service, WorldAccent delivers. With 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.

Chinese translation expertise

WorldAccent are experts in Chinese translation and typesetting, with more than 20 years’ experience in the field. We can help you to communicate effectively in Chinese to your readership.

Based in central London, we offer a comprehensive Chinese translation service to business and the third sector. We translate the widest range of the written word for print or the web for all kinds of companies, agencies and institutions.

Find out how we can meet your organisation’s Chinese translation requirements. To contact us or obtain a free quote, choose one of the options to the right.

Beijing street signs in Chinese and English
Beijing street signs in Chinese and English. WorldAccent can help you through the twists and turns of Chinese translation.

Chinese translation: London to Beijing

Our project managers may talk to the world but they are based in London, meaning they understand your way of working. You can have all the convenience of a point of contact in the UK, while having at your disposal over 20 years of experience spanning the globe.

We are proud to live and work in London – one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the industrialised world with more than 300 languages spoken. The Chinese community is one of London’s oldest, dating back to the mid 1800’s. Today over 60,000 people of Chinese origins live in London.

Whether you need to talk to a Chinese community in the UK or the man in the street in Beijing, you can be sure that our Chinese translation will always be appropriate and targeted.

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 which type of Chinese is right for your project.

A complete Chinese translation service

As well as translation, WorldAccent offers a range of other Chinese language services including Chinese copywriting, Chinese proofreading and Chinese 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, website translation is available too. We can translate your multimedia or web source files into 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.

Chinese translation, London project management and flawless communication

Get in touch today to find out how this winning combination can meet your firm’s Chinese translation needs. You can phone or email us – or even ask us to ring you back. Just click on your preferred contact method at the top right of the page.

Need more than one language to be translated or typeset? WorldAccent also offers a wide range of multilingual typesetting and translation services spanning the world’s languages. Contact us now to discuss your organisation’s translation requirements.

Providing high quality Chinese translation for business and organisations since 1989