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read moreQuality is ingrained in everything we do and we're one of few to carry the ISO 17100 certification for translation service provision as well as ISO 9001. Translation and typesetting: A more in depth look at Typesetting in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and other right to left languages.

read moreAfter that - it's easy. You're in good hands: we have over 2000 expert translators, proofreaders and copywriters working with us across different time zones and in all dialects. Our clients range from public institutions, such as the UN, to businesses large and small throughout the world. In addition, we're one of the few firms to have accreditation for ISO 9001 and 17100 - and awesome staff who will listen, help, inform. No, this isn't sci-fi. There are no aliens for a start. In line with our ethos of keeping at the forefront of technology, you can have the latest in automated translation systems; combining the best of translation memory and machine translation tools with human pre- and post-editing.

read moreSwedish is spoken in Sweden and parts of Finland with a total number of native speakers estimated at around 9 million. In Finland it holds equal legal status with Finnish. It is part of the North Germanic language group and very close to Danish and Norwegian - the three are mutually intelligible to a large degree. The closest most of us come to speaking Swedish is clearly our long pilgrimage of sacrifice to Ikea. Apparently there is actually a loose naming system for Ikea's products - the founder of Ikea was dyslexic and wanted to name things in a way that was easy to remember - hence many products are named after places in Nordic countries.

read morePashto uses an alphabet that is a variety of the Arabic right-to-left alphabet and is written with Arabic Naskh script instead of the Persian Nastaleeq script (which is used by Dari - the second official language of Afghanistan). The Iranian language group, including Pashto, is a member of the Indo-European language group along with other branches such as Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Aryan. The first grammar book of Pashto verbs was written in India in the early 19th century, and given the brilliant title of "Riz al-Muhabat" (Training in Affection); such a misleading title perhaps speaks to some deeper truths about humanity across time periods and cultures - namely, that we all hate grammar so much that the most successful way to write a book about grammar is to make people think it's something else.

read moreKorean is a language isolate, meaning that there is no genealogical relationship with other languages. In the 1440s the Korean Hanja writing system, which was based on the Chinese script, was replaced with a phonetic alphabet called "Hangul" by King Sejong the Great. Korean also used to be written from top-to-bottom and right-to-left but these days it is written left-to-right in rows. Korean includes many "counting words" where you would use a different word depending on what you are counting. Translation and typesetting: A short look at the practical and cultural problems of multilingual typesetting.

read moreLatvian is a member of the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages together with Lithuanian. It is sometimes grouped with Slavic languages under the Balto-Slavic branch. Latvian is most closely related to Lithuanian, the only other living Baltic language. Only about 65% of Latvia's 2 million inhabitants speak Latvian as their first language with the remaining 35% speaking minority languages. Interestingly, Latvian spelling has almost perfect correspondence between the way things are written and the way they are pronounced, so you would probably be able to just pick up and read a Latvian text out loud pretty well without learning how to pronounce it.