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Translation, más o menos...


You want to attract English-speaking customers to your business. You've had your marketing materials - your brochure, your window display, your menus, your website - all translated into English BUT... you still don't have many new customers yet. Maybe your new English materials aren't as good as they could be.

I'm learning a new language now - Castellano, if you're interested - and being understood in another language and being fluent are two very different things.

The other day, I told a policeman that I had lost my postman ("He perdido mi cartero.") when I wanted to say that I had lost my wallet ("He perdido mi cartera.") One letter can make the difference between being treated seriously and being treated as a joke. He realised what I meant but oh, did we both chuckle!

To attract your new customers, your translation must be perfect, idiomatic English and for that you either need to employ a top-class interpreter in the first place OR you need me, to polish up your translation, use correct English grammar and phrasing and take out the accidentally funny stuff.

It isn't enough to use Google translate or Babel Fish or to rely on the English you learned years ago in school. I can't translate for you, but I can take your mediocre translation and turn it into perfect English which will attract your new customers instead of turning them away.

Email me with your requirements - type of business, approximate length of text, desired style, deadline - and I'll reply with a free (¡gratuita!) quote within one working day.