Arabic translation services

Arabic translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, varying with volume, subject and turnaround. Send your files for a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Arabic linguists translate in the right variety — Modern Standard Arabic or a regional one — and a second reviews every text so it reads naturally for your market.

Yes — Arabic translation, right-to-left subtitling and voice over from one team, so your whole project stays consistent.

Yes — right-to-left is core to our audiovisual work. We deliver subtitles, captions and on-screen text laid out RTL, with correct bidirectional handling for mixed Arabic and Latin content.

Modern Standard Arabic is understood across the entire Arabic-speaking world and is the usual choice for corporate, documentary, and pan-regional video. A regional variant connects more directly with one country and suits advertising and consumer campaigns. We advise on the right fit before the work begins.

It varies by content type, and either direction is possible. That's why the safe assumption is that it will not match. Where text has to fit a fixed space, such as an interface, a packaging panel, or a subtitle, we flag the constraint before translating rather than trimming afterwards.

Yes. Right-to-left presentation affects far more than the text direction, including alignment, punctuation placement, the direction of tables and charts, and how numbers and Latin script sit inside an Arabic sentence. Send us the working files and we will return them laid out correctly.

It handles predictable, repetitive text tolerably and degrades sharply outside that. Diacritics are usually absent from written Arabic, which leaves ambiguity a human resolves from context, and machine output frequently defaults to a register that reads as stiff or unidiomatic. Our Arabic translations are produced and reviewed by native linguists.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.