Samoan translation services

Samoan translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with establishing who your material addresses 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 Samoan linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that respect vocabulary is used consistently for every chief, pastor or guest your material addresses, and everyday Samoan everywhere else.

Yes — Samoan translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so the subtitles and the recorded narration address your audience in the same way.

It is Samoan respect vocabulary: words that replace everyday ones when you speak to or about people of rank. To eat is ʻai in everyday Samoan but taumafa or tausami in respect, and to come is sau but afio mai, maliu mai or susū mai depending on who is arriving.

If it greets, thanks or addresses community leaders, church ministers or honoured guests, yes — those lines need it. If it speaks only to a general audience, everyday Samoan applies throughout. We look at the script and agree at the brief where respect vocabulary belongs.

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. A native linguist reads it and tells you whether chiefs, pastors and guests are addressed with the right vocabulary and whether that holds across files, before you reuse it in new material.

The written language is the same, and standard Samoan is our default for all of them. What can change is how formal the greeting and the closing should be for a particular community, so we ask who the audience is at the brief.

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.