German Translation

Web-Translations have all the necessary skills and experience to translate any document from, or in to, German or any of the other 140 languages we work with.  Whether you have a birth certificate, word document, a pdf, some graphics that need localising or even an entire website and online payment system that need translating, your dedicated Web-Translations Project Manager will be able to help. 

Apitherapy is an online vendor of Royal Jelly, bee pollen and other such products who used Web-Translations to translate and localise their entire website in to German in order to boost their international presence.  DuracellDirect is a website supplying batteries for portable devices, operated by PSA Parts Ltd, who also entrusted the translation of their entire website into 18 languages, including German, to Web-Translations. 

Having worked with such clients, it is clear that Web-Translations have the necessary experience to be a one-stop-shop for all of your German translation requirements.

• All of our German translators are mother tongue speakers who live in-country.
They are vetted, trained freelance professionals with at least five years translation experience.
• Our service promise will ensure that you have one point of contact for all of your German translation requirements.
• Projects over 10,000 words can be reduced in price by up to 40%.
• All future German translation projects are also discounted because we manage your language asset.
• Specialist translators have backgrounds in law, medicine, leisure, finance, engineering and many other industries.
• Translated data can be designed for both on-line and off-line publishing in a variety of formats.

Get a free quotation today for your German translation needs.

Procedures and Standards

We work within a documented quality procedure born from experience. Where required we will adopt additional quality controls in order to align with client-side process.

Confidentiality

All employees and translators are bound by confidentiality and corporate nondisclosure agreements. Confidentiality and security issues are taken very seriously.

About the German Language

There are around 105 million native German speakers situated in Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and, obviously, Germany.  German is classified as a Western Germanic Language alongside English and Dutch.  It is one of the worlds major languages having come about because of the High German consonant shift in the Early Middle Ages (a result of the Barbarians invading and succeeding the Roman Empire). 

Many believe German is set to become one of the most popular languages on the internet in coming years.  Communities around the world that still speak German as a result of migrating previous generations can be found in Brazil, Namibia, Argentina and even parts of Romania.

German is classified as a pluricentric language - one that has many standardised versions in both its written and spoken form (i.e. English vs. American or South African English).  It is, however, an asymmetric pluricentric language because the standard used in Germany is often considered as dominant, owing to the sheer number of its speakers and their frequent unawareness of the Austrian and Swiss Standard German varieties.

As well as the standard 26 letter Latin alphabet, German makes use of three vowels with Umlauts (ä, ö and ü) as well as the Eszett, or scharfes S, ß which was introduced in place of ss after the German spelling reform in the late nineties.

Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch or Schwyzerdütsch)

A variety of German spoken by about 4 million people in Switzerland, occasionally appears in writing in novels, newspapers, personal letters and diaries.

Regional dialects of German, or Mundarten, also occasionally appear in writing; mainly in folk literature and comic books such as Asterix.

For written translations, High German (Hochdeutsch) is the version to use.  It began to emerge as the standard literary language during the 16th century. Completed in 1534, Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible marks the beginning of the standardization.  Based somewhat on spoken German, the lexicon he used later became the model for written German as we now know it.