Competitive Translation Price List

The table below gives rates per 1,000 words (or characters) of each foreign or English language source text. Because each language can be translated into or from English, into rates and from rates are given for each group of languages. Each standard rate is followed by a rate for translating patent texts and by our minimum charge.

INTO ENGLISH			S = Standard; P = Patent; Min = Minimum Charge	FROM ENGLISH
S	P	Min	S = Standard; P = Patent; Min = Minimum Charge	S	P	Min
83	98	50	French, Italian, Spanish	110	129	60
104	122	50	German, Dutch	110	129	60
87	102	50	Portuguese	137	161	60
110	129	50	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish	145	170	60
128	150	50	Russian,Ukrainian,	137	161	60
136	160	60	Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovene, Serbo-Croat	146	172	70
136	160	60	Czech, Slovak, Polish	137	161	70
124	146	60	Finnish	164	193	70
136	160	70	Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish	137	161	80
126	148	70	Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu	151	177	80
134	158	90	Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Tagalog	164	193	100
118	139	60	Chinese, Japanse characters	134	137	80
210	247	90	Korean*, Thai characters	210	247	100

Effective from 1st Jan 2012

Rates per 1,000 source text words or characters

†Per 1,000 Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Thai characters

Our rates include printing your translation on paper and sending it to you by email and/or fax, post, or DX. VAT is excluded. We may decline to translate a text. We may charge more if it is hand-written or has poor legibility. We can usually format to your requirements. Our standard and patent rates include check-reading each translation against its source text, when it reaches our office, for a maximum of five minutes per page.

Variations. Add 12.5% to our standard rate if you opt for secure translating which includes procedures to ensure secrecy – either an undertaking binding HLL and an undertaking binding the translator or a Deed of Confidentiality executed by the translator and by HLL. Both stipulate the transmission of the text and the return of the translation (on paper and/or disc) together with all final and draft copies of each by Special or Recorded Delivery Post and the erasure of all relevant, computer-stored material.

Add 80% to our rates if you would like two independent translations of your text, each of them check-read.