Courses & training

E-learning translation
that still teaches

A translated course has to do what the original did: teach. That means the lessons, the interface around them and the questions at the end all have to work in the new language — not merely be understood in it.

  • Online courses and lesson content
  • Platform strings and system messages
  • Training videos, scripts and subtitles
  • Quizzes and examination material
  • Examples adapted, not just translated
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    What a translated course needs

    • The course and the platform

      A learner who reads a translated lesson and then meets an untranslated button has stopped trusting the course. Interface strings, navigation and system messages are done alongside the material.

    • Questions that still test something

      A question resting on wordplay or on a term’s ambiguity stops working when it is translated straight. Multiple-choice distractors have to stay plausible, or the question hands out free marks.

    • Examples that travel

      A scenario built around one country’s institutions teaches a learner somewhere else nothing. Those get flagged and adapted, rather than translated word for word.

    • Video and subtitles

      Training video scripts, voice-over text and timed subtitles, handled with the rest of the course so the terminology on screen matches the terminology in the lesson.

    Assessment is the hard part

    Most of a course translates the way any other text does, the timed subtitles under a video aside. Assessment does not. A question can rest on a pun, on a term that happens to be ambiguous in the source language, or on a distinction between two words that the target language covers with one. Translate it straight and the question becomes either unanswerable or self-answering.

    Multiple choice is worse, because the wrong answers do the work. A distractor is chosen to be plausible to someone who has half understood the material; rendered literally it can come out obviously absurd, or accidentally correct. So each question is rebuilt to test what it was written to test, and you get told which ones we changed and why.

    Examples behave the same way. A worked scenario about one country’s institutions, forms, job titles or the qualifications awarded there teaches a learner elsewhere nothing — it just gives them something to decode. Those we put in front of you rather than quietly swapping them, because changing an example is a decision about your course, not about its wording.

    Where a question cannot survive translation at all, we say so and propose a replacement instead of delivering a broken one.

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    Course material we translate

    Everything a learner meets, from the enrolment page to the final assessment.

    E-learning languages

    Below are the languages we are asked for most often for courses and training. For any other language, just contact our team.

    • German
    • English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Norwegian
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
    • Japanese
    • Romanian
    • Portuguese
    • Polish
    • Swedish
    • Finnish
    • Thai
    • Russian
    • Greek
    • Ukrainian
    • …and many others
    EnglishPortugueseSwedishGermanPolishGreekSpanishDutchTurkishFrenchRomanianJapaneseArabicUkrainianMandarinItalianRussianNorwegian

    Frequently asked questions

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    Can you translate the platform as well as the course?
    Yes, and we would rather do both. Interface strings, menus, buttons and system messages are quoted alongside the content, because a learner who meets an untranslated button in the middle of a translated lesson stops trusting the whole course.
    What happens to quizzes and exam questions?
    They are rebuilt, not just translated. A question that depends on wordplay or on an ambiguity in the source language stops working, and multiple-choice distractors that come out implausible turn the question into free marks. We flag every question we had to change and tell you what it now tests.
    Our course is full of examples from one country. Will they still land?
    Often not, which is why we flag them instead of translating them straight. A scenario built on one country’s institutions, forms or job titles teaches a learner elsewhere nothing. You decide whether to swap the example; we tell you which ones need it.
    Do you handle the training videos and the subtitles?
    Yes. Scripts, voice-over text and timed subtitle files, done with the rest of the course so the terminology in the video matches the terminology in the lesson. Send the video or a link to it.
    What format do you need our course in?
    Whatever it comes out of your system as — a course export, a spreadsheet of strings, slides, documents or a set of subtitle files. Send us a sample first and we will confirm what goes back in cleanly and what needs a different route, before you commit to anything.
    Can you keep the terminology identical across every module?
    Yes. Your terms live in a termbase we maintain, so a concept keeps one name from the first module to the last — and the next course you send us matches the ones already published.
    How long does a course take?
    It depends on the word count, the number of languages, and how much of the course is video and assessment rather than plain text. We confirm a delivery date together with the quote, before you commit.
    What does it cost?
    By volume, language pair, and how much of the course is video or assessment, with repeated material discounted — courses repeat more than people expect. Send us the course, or one module of it, and you will have a fixed price and a date, with no obligation.