Localisation

Familiarity with cultural peculiarities. Task of our native speakers

Translating a text well also always involves giving consideration to the formal peculiarities of the target language and the local, cultural specifics of the target region. A good translator is familiar with these peculiarities – and adapts his text contents accordingly. This adaptation process, which goes beyond mere language transfer, is called localisation. The objective: your text reads as if it were written directly in the target language and for the target region.

Nobody is more familiar with the cultural specifics of a language better than a native speaker. As a result, of course, the ZINDEL translators translate exclusively into their native language. Localisation work is also undertaken solely by native speakers.

Localisation of specialist texts

Precise specialist knowledge for complex tasks

The localisation of specialist texts is a complex process. Not only the context of the text has to be adapted. The technical characteristics in a country must also be known – and the text has to be adapted to these. Whether SI units are commonly used in a country has to be known, for example. Or whether units of measure such as kg or ms are converted into Cyrillic characters.

Usually, a translation that disregards these adaptations is inadequate. It generally cannot be used later on. And nor can the translation stored in the translation memory be reused.

At ZINDEL, precise localisation of your technical documentation is a matter of course: all of our translators, proof-readers and translation managers have the detailed special knowledge required for this.