Dari translation services

Dari translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with building the Afghan glossary included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Dari linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that the vocabulary stays Afghan throughout rather than slipping into Iranian forms picked up from reference material.

Yes — Dari translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary built for Afghan audiences, so the words on screen and the words in the recording match.

Both are Persian, written in the same script and mutually intelligible, but they are not interchangeable in a finished text. Dari is the Persian of Afghanistan, with its own institutional terms, loanwords and month names; Farsi, as the name is used for our other service, is the Persian of Iran. We translate each for its own market.

It will be understood, but it will read as foreign: دانشگاه instead of پوهنتون, Iranian month names, Iranian loanwords. Adapting it means a native Dari linguist going through the vocabulary line by line, which is more than a proofread. If you know from the start that you need both markets, we plan two versions.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

We agree it at the brief. Dates can stay in the Gregorian calendar or be given in the Afghan solar calendar, whose months are Hamal, Sawr, Jawza and so on — not the Iranian Farvardin series. Whichever you choose is applied the same way in every file.

Yes. Afghan viewers abroad read the same Afghan Persian, so the vocabulary question does not change with the country they live in. We use Afghan usage by default and adjust only where your brief asks for it.

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.