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eLearning Translation Most Popular Target Languages

February 5, 2019

The majority of eLearning translation projects we take on start out with material in the English language. For the clients’ reasons unique to them, they require the eLearning material translated into another language. The target audiences might be located outside the United States (e.g., a non-US office location), or they can be aimed for non-English […]

How to Price eLearning Translation Projects

February 1, 2019

eLearning translation projects can entail multiple categories of language attention. Among these are: 1) Translation of text. Printed source material exists in whatever the source language might be. Text translation is priced according to the number of words by most professional translation companies. Keep in mind though that not all per word pricing is a […]

eLearning Translation Most Popular Target Languages

February 5, 2019

How to Price eLearning Translation Projects

February 1, 2019

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eLearning Translation Most Popular Target Languages

February 5, 2019

Below we list the most popular target languages for eLearning translation projects, based on requests we’ve received over the years. Summary information on each of the languages is included. While Spanish and French are among the most commonly requested target languages for translation of eLearning materials, the rest of the languages listed are in no particular order.

Spanish

Number of native speakers: 480 million
Primary geographic regions: Latin America, Spain, US

French

Number of native speakers: 78 million
Primary geographic regions: France, Canada, Africa

German

Number of native speakers: 90 million
Primary geographic regions: Germany, Austria, other European countries

Italian

Number of native speakers: 69 million
Primary geographic regions: Italy

Russian

Number of native speakers: 150 million
Primary geographic regions: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other neighboring post-Soviet states

Portuguese

Number of native speakers: 223 million
Primary geographic regions: Brazil, Portugal

Arabic

Number of native speakers: 310 million
Primary geographic regions: Countries of the Arab League, minorities in neighboring countries and some parts of Asia, Africa, Europe

Chinese

Number of native speakers: 1.2 billion
Primary geographic regions: People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Japanese

Number of native speakers: 125 million
Primary geographic regions: Japan

Korean

Number of native speakers: 77 million
Primary geographic regions: North and South Korea

How to Price eLearning Translation Projects

February 1, 2019

eLearning translation projects can entail multiple categories of language attention. Among these are:

1) Translation of text. Printed source material exists in whatever the source language might be.

Text translation is priced according to the number of words by most professional translation companies. Keep in mind though that not all per word pricing is a straight up comparison. Some per word rates include a higher standard such as proofreading by a second translator. Other per word rates include only translation with no proofreading.

2) Spoken audio. eLearning course materials sometimes have spoken instruction or narration.

Spoken audio such as narration must first be translated in written form to produce a script in the target language (the language translating into). Professional voiceover work can be priced according to the duration of the required audio. Another option is possible and that is adding sub-titles, written text that appears across the screen when the audio content remains untranslated in the source language.

Text translation is priced according to the number of words for most translation companies. Not all per word pricing is a straight up comparison.

3) Graphics and illustrations. Graphical elements sometimes have brief text segments associated with them. Translation and editing of the graphics text can be required.

Translation and editing of graphics can be priced based on the number of graphics, assuming an average calculation per image as to the degree of attention required.

4) Course integration. eLearning course material can require integration within a proprietary application (e.g., Articulate Storyline or Articulate Rise) once the various inputs are translated. Supplemental printed material (handouts) may require formatting within a desktop publishing application such as Adobe InDesign.

Course integration pricing scales with the scope of the course and the complexity of the translated inputs that require incorporation into the eLearning environment. The scope of this effort can be thought of as a hourly based pricing metric since a time requirement is implied.

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