Flemish translation services

Flemish translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with checking which language version is the reference 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 Flemish linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, and for staff-facing material in Flanders that review treats the Dutch as the version that prevails and checks any other language versions against it.

Yes — Flemish translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so a training video, its subtitles and the handbook that goes with it use the same Dutch terms.

If you have an operating site in the Dutch-language region of Belgium, yes. The Flemish decree of 19 July 1973 requires Dutch in employment relations and for all documents intended for staff. Versions in other languages can be added, and employee representatives can ask for them in some cases, but the Dutch version has to exist.

The Dutch version prevails. That is set out in the decree itself, which is why we treat the Dutch as the reference text rather than as a translation of it: any ambiguity is resolved in the Dutch first, and the other language versions are then aligned with it.

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

The decree covers employers with an operating site in the Dutch-language region. Brussels is bilingual and follows different rules, and the municipalities with language facilities are treated separately as well. We ask where your staff are based at the brief, because it changes which language version your material needs.

No. Flemish is the Dutch of Flanders: one standard language, with its own Belgian usage in vocabulary and in speech. For Flemish audiences we translate into Dutch as it is written in Belgium, and the voice is cast from Flanders when there is a recording.

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.