If two languages makes you a translator,
then two hands makes you a concert pianist?
Wrong

You will see in these industry profiles that we seem to have extensive experience in many different fields, but to us these are all the same field: translation.

Translators are not merely bilingual. Our product is accurately and faithfully translated speech or text. The complete service that we offer includes defining client brief and desired outcomes; research; preparation and monitoring performance.

But the bulk of the expertise that we bring to the job is directed at untangling sentences in one language and rebuilding them as quickly as possible in another, accurately and faithfully.

It is this work that you are paying for, and it is a skill and area of expertise that takes years to master, after becoming completely bilingual.

Our “product” is not the people, or their credentials or ethnic background, and it certainly isn’t the fact that we have some experience in your field of expertise. Our product is the strings of words and we get them right, we get them perfectly natural, and we can prove to you that we’ve done it.

What makes us so different?
What makes us so different?
There are many factors that enable the translation of text and speech. Experienced practitioners are a key factor but by no means the only one. The practitioners must work within a framework of theory, policies and procedures that govern every aspect of research and preparation, drafting, checking and editing in the case of written work, and management of logistics and workload in the case of spoken work, and all the other elements of client relationship that assure successful outcomes.
Most importantly of all we are team, of which different members form a level of quality assurance and are therefore the most capable client advocate possible – questioning and challenging the planning and development of all translation work with fresh eyes and different levels of experience and expertise. This is the distinguishing feature of CPT. It is the reason 75% of our sales are repeat customers. This level of service and quality is simply not offered by “agencies” or “freelancers”.