Native English translations, priced on the spot.
I’m Sam Kirk, a British translator based in Barcelona. I translate financial, legal and corporate texts from Spanish, Catalan and French into English. Drop your document below to see the price and delivery date straight away.
Your document never leaves your computer. It’s read here, in your browser, to work out the price, and it isn’t sent anywhere. It’s only uploaded, encrypted, if you book.
How it works
Upload your document
The price and delivery date appear straight away. PDFs and scans are read automatically, and I confirm the word count before I start.
Book and pay
Sign in with a code sent to your email, no password needed. Pay by card, or pay half now and half on delivery for larger jobs. Companies can also pay by bank transfer.
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Translated, or written in English?
Financial texts have their own English. A literal translation gets the words across, but not the terms an English-speaking reader expects. These are the kinds of term that give a translation away.
| Original | Literal translation | What an English reader expects |
|---|---|---|
| Cuenta de pérdidas y ganancias consolidadaes | Consolidated losses and gains account | Consolidated income statement |
| Resultado atribuido a la sociedad dominantees | Result attributed to the dominant company | Profit attributable to owners of the parent |
| Patrimoni netca | Net patrimony | Equity |
| Memòria dels comptes anualsca | Memory of the annual accounts | Notes to the financial statements |
| Chiffre d’affairesfr | Business figure | Revenue |
IFRS terminology, as used in the annual reports of listed companies.
Continuity from one report to the next
Annual reports, quarterly results and sustainability reports come back every year. Upload last year’s files with their English translations, as many as you like: separate documents are paired up and aligned sentence by sentence automatically, and bilingual files or TMX go straight into your project’s translation memory. I also build a glossary from them, so your terminology stays exactly the same. Each sentence is charged according to how much of it is already translated, band by band as in a Trados analysis, and your quote shows how much you save.
| New text | 12,000 words | full price |
| Partly changed | 4,000 words | 60–70% of the rate |
| Almost the same, or new figures | 10,000 words | 40% of the rate |
| Unchanged | 14,000 words | 25% of the rate |
You pay for 22,100 words instead of 40,000.
How I work on every translation
Terminology
I extract the key terms from your previous documents and check them before I start.
First draft
A draft is produced with machine translation tools, guided by your glossary.
Two reviews
An automated check for consistency, figures and omissions, then my full revision, sentence by sentence.
Final read
I read the finished text as your English reader will, and rework anything that doesn’t sound natural.
Your document can’t be processed by AI tools? Tick the box when you order and I’ll translate it without them.
What I translate
Financial translation is my speciality, but after years in translation companies I work on most kinds of professional text.
Financial
Annual reports, financial statements, results and investor relations.
Legal
Contracts, corporate documents, terms and conditions, policies.
Sustainability and institutional
Sustainability reports, non-financial information, institutional publications.
Technical
Manuals, technical documentation, safety instructions.
Subtitling
English subtitles for corporate, training and promotional video.
Who will translate your document
I’m British and English is my mother tongue. I studied French and Spanish at Coventry University, spent my Erasmus year in Oviedo and now live in Barcelona.
I spent seven years inside translation companies as a translator, proofreader and project manager, and was project lead for annual reports for BBVA, Bankinter and CaixaBank. Since 2018 I’ve worked for myself.
When you order through this site, I’m the one who translates your text. It isn’t passed on to anyone else.
- Years translating into English
- 20+
- Words translated
- 7,000,000+
- Years in-house at translation companies
- 7
- Freelance since
- 2018
Translation agencies
I work in memoQ and Trados Studio and take packages, XLIFF files and purchase orders. Rates by Trados analysis band: new words at the full rate, matches and repetitions at reduced rates.
Common questions
How is the price calculated?
By the number of words in your original document, counted as standard translation software (Trados) counts them, figures included, at the rate for its subject. Repeated sentences, and sentences already translated in any previous translations you upload (last year’s version with its English translation, a bilingual file or a TMX), cost less: as in a Trados analysis, each match band has its own share of the rate, from unchanged text in the same context to text that has partly changed. Your quote shows every band. VAT is added at checkout where it applies.
Why is the quote for my PDF an estimate?
PDFs don’t always contain clean text, and scanned pages have to be read with text recognition. I check every PDF before I start. If the real word count is more than 15% higher, I’ll contact you before starting, and you can cancel with a full refund. If you have the Word or InDesign file, upload that instead.
Do you do sworn translations?
No. If you need a sworn translation for an official procedure, you’ll need a sworn translator (traductor jurado / traducteur assermenté).
Is my document kept confidential?
Yes. The quote for the document you want translated is worked out in your browser, so it isn’t uploaded until you book. If you add last year’s documents to lower the price, their text is sent securely to my server in the EU to be aligned, and deleted as soon as that’s done; bilingual files and TMX stay on your computer: if you book, only the translation units that match your files are sent, and I keep them as your translation memory with me for your next quotes (you can delete it from your account). To suggest published translations you can follow, only numeric fingerprints of your sentences are sent, never the text. Files are stored on a secure server, are never shared, and are deleted 90 days after delivery. I’m happy to sign your confidentiality agreement.