Our service promise will ensure that you have one point of contact for all of your Italian translation requirements and is one of the reasons that Audio Technica, a supplier of top-end music products, chose us to provide them with high quality website translations for their new e-commerce website.

When Timberland wanted to deploy a process for the ongoing and simultaneous release of accurate, and fully localized content into, amongst other languages, Italian, in a timely manner to coincide with the launching of new product lines, they, too, chose Web-Translations.

All of our Italian translators are native Italians. They are trained professionals with at least three years of experience.

Your translators are carefully chosen to ensure that only the most suitably qualified translators and linguists undertake your projects. Specialist translators have backgrounds in marketing, law, medicine, leisure, finance, engineering, marketing and many other industries.

Italian Glossaries and Terminology

For ongoing or large projects, we will manage your language asset. This means you won't ever pay for a sentence to be translated twice! Also, with our system, your terminology is kept consistent throughout your literature.

We can collaborate with your Italian distributors/agents to ensure that the correct terminology is used and that the content is kept in your best interest.

We work to a documented quality procedure born from experience.

Confidentiality and security issues are taken very seriously. All employees and translators are bound by non-disclosure agreements.

Italian is part of the Indo-European language family. Specifically a Romance language, having descended from the ancient Latin which was spoken in the times of the Roman Empire, it is spoken by an approximate 63 million people.

Aside from in Italy, it is spoken in Switzerland, the Vatican City (though the official language is Latin) and in the republic of San Marino. Spoken Italian retains the distinction between the long and short consonants which existed in Latin, unlike most other Romance languages. In terms of the lexicon, Italian is regarded as the most synonymous with ancient Latin.

Interestingly, it is not just English youths who employ handy abbreviations when sending an SMS. In Italian, x is often used instead of per: This is because the multiplication operator, x, is pronounced per in Italian and so it is sometimes used to replace the word per, which means for. So, for example, 'per te' (for you) is shortened to 'x te' (comparable to the English, 4 U).

Words containing per can also have it replaced with x. In perché (meaning both 'why' and 'because') is often shortened to xché for instance. This usage is useful when jotting down quick notes or to fit more text into the low character limit of an SMS, but is derided in formal writing. Italians amiably refer to their own language as il parlar gentile or, in English, the gentle language.

Read more about the Italian language on Wikipedia.