000/ Carrier & Kemp

Translation. Eleven languages. Human only.

A translation is not finished when the words are right. It is finished when a native speaker stops noticing it was translated.

Eleven languages, every job read twice, and no machine output passed off as human work. We will tell you when a job does not need us.

  • 11 languages
  • Every job proofread by a second native
  • Established 2011

001/ The point

TheleaserunsuntiltheendofMarchandcannotbebrokenearly.

English

Same meaning, four structures. A machine gets three of these nearly right, and nearly right is what ends up in court.

002/ Work

  • Legal and contracts.

    Leases, terms, employment contracts, court bundles. Translated by a lawyer linguist, then checked.

    Checked by: a second legal translator

  • Technical and manuals.

    Installation guides, safety sheets, specifications. Glossary agreed with you before we start.

    Checked by: a subject specialist

  • Marketing and brand.

    Transcreation rather than translation. Your tone survives, the jokes get replaced with ones that land.

    Checked by: a native copywriter

  • Certified documents.

    Birth certificates, degrees, company filings, with a signed statement of accuracy for the Home Office or a court.

    Checked by: a sworn translator

003/ Languages

In house means we employ them. Vetted partner means we have used the same person for years and we name them on your file.

  • FrenchIn house
  • GermanIn house
  • SpanishIn house
  • ItalianIn house
  • PortugueseIn house
  • DutchIn house
  • PolishVetted partner, 9 years
  • CzechVetted partner, 6 years
  • SwedishVetted partner, 11 years
  • JapaneseVetted partner, 7 years
  • ArabicVetted partner, 5 years

004/ Process

  1. 01

    The file.

    Send it in any format. We come back with a word count, a price and a date, not a range.

    Within 2 hours
  2. 02

    The translator.

    One named person does the whole document. We never split a file across three people to hit a deadline.

    Day one to three
  3. 03

    The second pair of eyes.

    A different native speaker reads it against the original. This is not optional and it is not an upsell.

    Before delivery
  4. 04

    Delivery.

    In the same format you sent, with the layout intact. Certified work arrives signed and stamped by post as well.

    On the date

005/ Rates

General translationPer source word0.12 GBP2,000 words a day
Legal or technicalPer source word0.16 GBP1,500 words a day
TranscreationPer hour65 GBPQuoted per project
Certified documentPer page45 GBPTwo working days

Minimum charge 60 GBP. Rush work is 50 per cent more and we will tell you honestly whether it is needed.

006/ Honest

Machine output is fine for

  1. 01Understanding an email you received
  2. 02Internal notes nobody will act on
  3. 03A first pass you are going to have checked anyway
  4. 04Languages where you only need the gist

It has cost people money on

  1. 01A lease where a negation was dropped
  2. 02A safety sheet where a warning became a recommendation
  3. 03A brand line that was obscene in Dutch
  4. 04A certified document a court refused because no human signed it
“They sent back our German manual with forty queries about our own English. Half of them were things our engineers had got wrong.”
Ingrid Vossen, technical director

Send the file. We will translate the first paragraph free so you can judge the tone before you commit.

Quote back within two working hours. Sample paragraph within one day.