Translation language pairs
Translation is priced per word, which hides the fact that the work is not the same from one language to the next. A script may mirror the page, stack marks that clip, refuse to break lines without a dictionary, or grow the text by a third and break your table. These pages set out, pair by pair, what actually changes.
The handover
Finished files
Production-ready output in the format your printer, platform or workshop actually needs — press PDF, editable source, CAD file, font binary or deck, as the work requires.
Editable sources
The working files, not just the export, so your team can change the work later without coming back to us.
Full rights
Copyright transfers to you on final payment. Nothing we make for you is resold or reused elsewhere.
Two revision rounds
Included in the quoted price. Corrections are logged against the draft rather than argued over on a call.
Five steps, and you approve the first three
01 · Brief
You tell us what the finished thing has to do, and send whatever material you already have.
02 · Scope & price
A written scope, a fixed figure and a delivery date, usually within one working day.
03 · Structure
You sign off the architecture before production starts, so nothing large is built on a wrong assumption.
04 · Production
Work arrives in stages as it finishes, not all at the end, with two revision rounds included.
05 · Handover
Files, sources and rights in your hands, and the invoice closed.
Often commissioned together
- Curriculum & syllabus development
- Coaching institute material
- Workbook & practice set development
- Teacher guides & solution manuals
- Ghostwriting services
- Book production & publishing
- Editing & proofreading
- Translation services
- Subtitling & captions
- Investor pitch deck design
- Company profile writing & design
- Business plan writing
Why each pair has its own page
Because the work is not the same. Arabic and Hebrew mirror the whole layout, including tables and diagram reading order. German compounds break column widths. Thai, Chinese and Khmer have no spaces between words, so line breaking needs a dictionary. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam stack vowel signs that clip at ordinary line height. Burmese still circulates in the non-Unicode Zawgyi encoding. Turkish has a dotless i that breaks automatic capitalisation.
None of that is visible in a word count, and all of it decides whether the file you get back can go to press. So each page states the script, the direction, the length change and the specific production problem, and we quote with those in view.
One claim we do not make: that machine translation is used as a first draft. It is not. In a script you cannot read, the errors machine output makes are precisely the ones you will never catch — and a certificate of accuracy has to mean something.
32 pairs with their own page
These are the pairs we are asked for most often. Each page names the script, the reading direction, how much the text grows or shrinks, and the specific production problem that script creates — because that is where translation projects actually fail. A hundred and fifty languages are available; ask for any pair not listed.
Indian languages
South Asia
East Asia
South-East Asia
Europe
Middle East and Africa
Script, direction and length change
Length change is measured against the English source and matters most for tables, buttons, captions and fixed-width layouts.
| Language | Script | Direction | Length vs English |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil | Tamil script | left to right | 15 to 25 per cent longer than English |
| Hindi | Devanagari | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Arabic | Arabic script | right to left | 20 to 25 per cent shorter in character count but wider on the line |
| Urdu | Nastaliq script | right to left | 20 to 25 per cent shorter in character count |
| Bengali | Bengali script | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Telugu | Telugu script | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent longer than English |
| Kannada | Kannada script | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent longer than English |
| Malayalam | Malayalam script | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent longer than English |
| Marathi | Devanagari | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Gujarati | Gujarati script | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi script | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Nepali | Devanagari | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Sinhala | Sinhala script | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent longer than English |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Simplified Han characters | left to right | 40 to 60 per cent shorter in character count |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Traditional Han characters | left to right | 40 to 60 per cent shorter in character count |
| Japanese | Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana | left to right, or vertical | 40 to 60 per cent shorter in character count |
| Korean | Hangul | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent shorter in character count |
| Thai | Thai script | left to right | 10 to 20 per cent shorter in character count |
| Vietnamese | Latin with diacritics | left to right | 10 to 15 per cent longer than English |
| Indonesian | Latin | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Malay | Latin | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Burmese | Myanmar script | left to right | 15 to 25 per cent longer than English |
| Khmer | Khmer script | left to right | 20 to 30 per cent longer than English |
| French | Latin | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| German | Latin | left to right | 25 to 35 per cent longer than English |
| Spanish | Latin | left to right | 20 to 25 per cent longer than English |
| Portuguese | Latin | left to right | 20 to 25 per cent longer than English |
| Russian | Cyrillic | left to right | 10 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Turkish | Latin with Turkish letters | left to right | 15 to 20 per cent longer than English |
| Hebrew | Hebrew script | right to left | 20 to 30 per cent shorter in character count |
| Persian | Perso-Arabic script | right to left | 20 to 25 per cent shorter in character count |
| Swahili | Latin | left to right | 10 to 20 per cent longer than English |
Before you commission
How much does textbook writing services cost?
Prices are fixed in writing before work begins. Scope, language count and turnaround move the figure; volume across a programme brings it down. Send the brief and you have a number within a working day.
How long does it take?
Most single deliverables run three to fourteen weeks depending on length and complexity. Programmes are staged so early parts reach you while later parts are still in production. You get a date with the quote.
Who does the work?
A specialist from our school & college course books team, with an editor and a production person on the same project. Everyone is bound by the same confidentiality terms.
Do I own the result?
Yes. Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production-ready files on final payment. Nothing is resold or reused.
Can it be produced in other languages?
Yes — any of a hundred-plus languages, typeset in the same studio so layout and page numbers match across editions.
Do you work with clients outside India?
Yes. Publishers, institutions and founders in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and Japan. Work is delivered by email and shared drive and quoted in US dollars.
Tell us what you need made
Send the brief and we reply with a scope, a fixed price and a date — usually within one working day. Whole programmes are quoted the same way as single titles.
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