Galician translation services

Galician translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with the tense review included as part of the second-linguist pass 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 Galician linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking among other things that no English or Spanish compound tense has been carried across where Galician uses a simple one.

Yes — Galician translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so the subtitles and the recorded narration tell the viewer the same thing in the same tenses.

Its ordinary conjugation has no compound tenses: where English says *I have sent*, Galician says Enviei, and where English says *I had sent*, it says enviara. A construction with ter plus a participle exists, but it expresses repetition or emphasis rather than doing the job of the English perfect.

The meaning shifts. *Teño enviado o ficheiro* reads closer to *I have sent the file more than once* than to *I have sent the file*. Nothing on the page looks broken, which is why the error survives a visual check and is found only when a native linguist reads for 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.

Yes, and we tell you at the brief that it raises the risk of Spanish structures — compound tenses first among them — coming through into the Galician. Where an English or other original exists, we prefer to work from it and use the Spanish only as a reference.

The official standard: the orthographic and morphological norms of the Real Academia Galega, with its dictionary as the lexical reference. It is what we use for corporate, commercial and broadcast work unless your project asks for something else.

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.