Afrikaans translations by specialised translators (native speakers): Adaptation, localisation, transcreation, and creative services

Creative, passionate, conscientious. ConText® is a specialist language service provider for Afrikaans translation, a translation agency that takes a rapid, unbureaucratic approach to business relationships based on trust to the benefit of our clients. We have the flexibility and expertise to adapt to your individual requirements.

Our specialised Afrikaans translators transfer all the content from your manuscript into the target language while preserving the original sense and meaning. Apart from that, our translators formulate the Afrikaans translation for the intended target audience while retaining the style and undertone of the original.

This gives you top-quality Afrikaans text in an accurate translation that reads like an original. We have not only mastered the art of Afrikaans translation; translation is our passion – something we believe you will notice in the result.

Highly-qualified Afrikaans translation agency – saving costs with cutting-edge translation technology

ConText® translators reuse previously verified sentences while also ensuring that any client terminology lists are applied consistently throughout the translation with the aid of state-of-the-art translation technology (CAT tools as well as translation memory and data mining technology).

This keeps the language style consistent in all Afrikaans translations from ConText®. Our databases store predefined terminology lists as well as comments and corrections to be included in all Afrikaans translations.

Highly specialised Afrikaans translation experts

We translate and localise specialised texts from German and English into Afrikaans and from Afrikaans into German, or other languages.

The rapid rate of technological and scientific progress requires increasing depth of specialisation from translators.

Our specialist areas include business, law, IT, banking, construction, architecture, chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, pharmaceuticals, marketing, communications, and advertising. ConText® services include quality assurance from our in-house proofreaders.

Our quality, your assurance – translations into Afrikaans at ISO 17100:2015 international quality standard

The ConText® translation agency uses project management software developed in-house from order receipt to delivery of the final translation.

We provide a web portal for registered clients to place complex translation and localisation orders for Afrikaans, upload the original documents, and download the translated texts.

An Afrikaans project comprises individual client jobs such as translation, proofreading, localisation in multiple language combinations, and DTP.

We use CAT tools such as Trados, MemoQ, Transit and Translation Workspace to generate automated translation analysis if requested.

All Afrikaans translations comply with the ISO 17100:2015 international quality standard to ensure completeness and form.

ConText® also supplies official translations from certified Afrikaans translators.

Transcreation – localising the message behind your brand

Brands vie for attention in reaching the target audience. Imagine you have recently run a successful sales campaign in South Africa, and you would like to repeat that for other markets. It usually takes good transcreation to carry your message out to consumers in all the world’s markets.

Advertising messages often contain a subtext that needs to be decoded correctly by the audience in the target market. The art of transcreation involves adapting the message your brand conveys while keeping your brand identity intact in every local market. Translators often take a more liberal and creative approach to this kind of job, as the texts – and visuals in many cases – need to be adapted for your message to hit the mark in an intercultural context.

Transcreation plays an essential role in successful intercultural advertising, communication and product marketing, as it ensures that the message is conveyed as intended to the target audience in each market.

Full-service package for Afrikaans

In addition to translation, adaptation, localisation and proofreading, our services extend to consultancy, editorial services, media and graphic design, and print contract management.

We are also happy to take care of the complete package that includes everything from specialist translations into Afrikaans by native speakers to international typesetting and proofreading to design, print and delivery including organisation, while keeping within the agreed budget and schedule.

Content creation: We write success stories in Afrikaans – finer, faster, with a bit more “Oomph!”

Our Afrikaans translators, Afrikaans copywriters and Afrikaans authors help put your thoughts into words.
We prepare and translate the following projects and materials from and into Afrikaans:

Websites, SEO texts and landing pages
Product descriptions for online shops
E-mail newsletters
Press releases
Advertising slogans
Video scripts
Brochures and leaflets
Advertisements and posters
Social media contributions
Multilingual product descriptions

How much overhead do you have in your translation orders?

How quickly and flexibly can your translation agency respond to requests for Afrikaans? How simple and straightforward is it to process a small order? How easily can you communicate with your contact person?

Working with ConText® makes it all easy. We do not have the huge unwieldy internal bureaucracy of large agencies, a bureaucratic machine that takes time and expense to set into motion for each Afrikaans translation order; we can react flexibly and quickly to client demands.

Interested? Get in touch!

Or just send us your text to be translated by e-mail and we will make you an offer for Afrikaans.

ConText®
Hindenburgstraße 10
55118 Mainz
Germany

Tel.: +49 (6131) 55 434-0
Fax: +49 (6131) 55 434-20
E-mail: welcome(at)context.de

The Afrikaans language – characteristics and spread

Did you know that Afrikaans, formerly known as Cape Dutch or Dutch Colonial, is one of the eleven official languages of South Africa? Afrikaans belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European family, and originates from Dutch.

Afrikaans is mainly spoken in South Africa, but also by smaller groups in other Southern African countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi and Zambia.

Afrikaans is spoken in three major dialect areas. The largest is western Afrikaans as spoken in the Western and Northern Cape Provinces, where around ninety percent of the “Cape Coloureds” speak Afrikaans. Afrikaans is spoken mainly by Europeans in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in the Eastern Cape, but many Africans also speak Afrikaans as a second language. The third area is in Namibia, where “Orange River Afrikaans” is spoken as a mother tongue by 200,000 people, or 11% of the population, and serves alongside English and German as the lingua franca between population groups. About sixteen to twenty million people can communicate in Afrikaans worldwide.