Japanese Translation Services
The importance of the Japanese language has grown vastly within the past thirty years; within that time-span Tokyo has become the leading financial centre in South East Asia, Japan has become a world leader in technology and its robust manufacturing and IT based companies have expanded vastly, with major manufacturing plants and IT headquarters worldwide. Because of this worldwide Japanese prominence, the demand for Japanese translation services has grown commensurately; there are, however, very high barriers for entry to companies who wish to offer Japanese translation services and these stem from the complexity of the language itself.
The Japanese language is spoken by some 140 million people and is the ninth most spoken language worldwide. The complexity of the language stems from the fact that it is agglutinative in its construction (it is based upon ‘stem’ words that are modified by affixes to indicate such variations as diminutives, tenses and plurals etc). Importantly, Japanese is also highly honorific; there are various modes of usage that denote respect and whose correct usage is mandatory. Additionally, there are many different levels of respect to be shown such as ‘humble’ and ‘polite’ speech and the correct usage depends on such diverse factors as age, social rank, work rank and circumstance of conversation.
The complexity of executing a Japanese translation is further added to due to the fact that Japanese language is written using a mixture of three different scripts, whilst this difficulty is compounded by the fact that there are various commonly spoken dialects in use. All of these factors present high entry barriers to any company wishing to provide quality Japanese translation services.
Almost without exception then, perfect translations in Japanese can only be undertaken by native Japanese speakers and here at Lingo24 we have a network of Japanese speakers who are not only qualified in their own field of linguistics, but are also vastly experienced or qualified in the different areas of common demand for translations, such as; Finance, Engineering and the Sciences.
If you have a Japanese translation project, you only get one chance to get it done correctly so it makes sense to choose a company with an established track record of producing quality, cost effective Japanese translations. Why not give us a call to find out how we can help you with your Japanese translation requirements…you will soon discover just what it is that makes us so well trusted with clients valuable translations.