![]() Professional translators rely on their years of studying and practicing the syntax, morphology, orthography, semantics, terminology, and phonology to reproduce the intricate reality of one language in the terms of another. It communicates the meaning of the original foreign text as terminologically precisely, syntactically accurately, and stylistically truthfully as technically possible. Quality translation does not just substitute words from one language for those of another. Translation is about conveying the meanings. The same quality-driven choice applies to translation services. So, when we need medical help, education, legal counsel, catering, or plumbing we choose service providers based primarily on the quality of their service. Moreover, very often, services of comparable quality end up costing approximately the same anyway. Services tend to have very real and often immediate effect on our wellbeing, health, mood, appearance, and quality of life. That is because services vary considerably and our satisfaction with them depends largely on their quality. With services, on the other hand, we tend to look primarily at the quality (and sometimes convenience). ![]() That is because the goods-cars, TVs, gas, apples and oranges, especially when we are shopping for a specific brand, model, or kind-remain essentially the same regardless of where we buy them. We price-shop for goods and quality-shop for services. ![]() When buying translation, we are paying for the quality That, however, is hardly surprising, as the costs of creating first-rate certified translation are naturally very variable too. But what about the price of translating one page? Not everyone knows that the actual per-page prices of authentic, quality professional translations also vary considerably, running as low as $5 and as high as $80 per page. When people talk about translation prices, everyone understands that the cost of translating a postcard will be a lot different from the cost of translating a book. ![]()
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