| Administrative | decisions, official correspondence, social security files, civil registration documents… |
|---|---|
| Financial | annual reports, investment documentation, banking correspondence, financial disputes… |
| Legal | court documents, contracts, notarial deeds, decisions, legal opinions… |
| Medical | expert medical reports, insurance files, package leaflets, medical device documentation… |
| Technical | manuals, specifications, test reports, compliance and assessment documentation… |
Administrative
A decision, a notification or a social insurance file almost always arrives with a deadline already running. I translate these documents into the language of the administration that will read them, cantonal, federal or Belgian, depending on where the document will be read, which you tell me when you order. Civil status records, residence files and register extracts follow the same rule, and the quote states a firm deadline. More on administrative translation.
Financial
A translated financial report is read by someone about to decide: invest, lend, audit accounts. Every line of a balance sheet carries the name that the accounting standards of the country give it, Belgian, Swiss, French or international; I take that name and never invent one. Amounts, percentages and thousands separators are proofread one by one. Annual reports, fund documentation and banking correspondence belong here: financial translation, with the note on amount separators (in French).
Legal
A legal translation has to hold up against the opposing party, the judge or the administration. The vocabulary follows the applicable law: a contract under Dutch law keeps its Dutch concepts, a Belgian judgment is rendered in Belgian judicial French. Quoted texts come from their official version. Pleadings, judgments, contracts, notarial deeds and legal opinions are translated this way: legal translation, with the note on “vonnis” and “arrest” (in French).
Medical
A translated medical report is used to decide on a pension, a reimbursement or fitness for work. Expert reports, disability insurance files, package leaflets and medical device documentation call for the official name of a diagnosis or a class of drugs, never a neighbouring term. Doses, units, dates and test results are proofread separately, and every document received stays confidential: medical translation.
Technical
A technical manual is read by someone who is about to assemble, adjust, test or certify. Maintenance manuals, specifications, test reports and declarations of conformity require measurements, tolerances and units checked separately from the text. When an applicable standard fixes a term in the target language, I use that one. The document comes back in its own format, with tables and captions in place: technical translation.
Beyond these 5 fields, I also translate corporate documentation and communications: annual reviews, presentations, brochures, web pages, internal procedures, business correspondence…
The details: services.
From 9 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
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