Regional Language Vendor

Portuguese translation

Afford Translations and Interpreting Ltd. has been providing high-quality translations since 2004 at favorable prices for business, technical, medical, and private purposes to corporations, organizations, international language service providers, and individuals. As well as an excellent value for the money, the office is characterized by experienced translators and interpreters, appropriate technical background supporting translation, and customer focus.

Portuguese translator / Portuguese technical translation / Portuguese technical translator / Portuguese interpreter

Facts about the Portuguese language:

  • More than 210 million people speak Portuguese as a mother tongue, putting it second only to Spanish in number of speakers among Romance languages and 5th-7th overall worldwide.
  • Few languages have so many distant countries with whom they can speak in a common tongue: The language’s largest base is Brazil (where half of South America’s population lives) with 184 million; furthermore, there are 17 million in Africa, and 11 million in Portugal, the mother country; and also other countries have an additional 6 million native speakers.
  • Portuguese is the primary and official language of Angola, Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It is an official language of East Timor and also in Macao that is under Chinese Authority. It is spoken by many but not an official language in Andorra, Luxembourg, Namibia, and Paraguay. Portuguese Creole is the main language of the Republic of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau's population. However, the official language in those countries is Portuguese.
  • Writing system: Latin.

(Source: Wikipedia.org)

What we offer: Portuguese translation, Portuguese technical translation, Portuguese native-language proofreading, Portuguese technical proofreading, Portuguese official translation, Portuguese interpreting – Request a quote, or order Portuguese translation, or Portuguese interpreting!

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Central Europe, has had a contractual relationship with Afford since 2009. Generally, we request the translation of complicated legal texts, often with very short deadlines. We always get quality work that holds our long-standing working relationship together. We especially appreciate the high degree of flexibility, customer orientation and personalized, custom administration, as well as the confidential treatment of materials sent. It is important that we can always count on Afford. Moreover, Afford is open to criticism and suggestions for improvement, and requests these, because they are progress-oriented.

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UNHCR

CAT tools

We work with the following Computer Aided Translation tools:

memoQ | Across | XTM | SDL Studio | SDL Passolo | Tstream Editor | Translation Workspace

File formats

We work with the following file formats:

MS Office: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, vsd, vsdx, mdb, pub | pdf | Text files: txt, csv, inf, ini, reg | Open Document: odt, ott, oth, odp, ods | html, xhtml, xml, sgml | DITA | Desktop Publishing/Graphics files: fm, mif, indd, idml, inx, ai, psd (Adobe); svg, eps, tif, gif, jpg, bmp, png; qxd (QuarkXpress); cdr (CorelDraw); tex (LaTeX) (PDF és képfájlok: konvertálás/OCR után fordítás) | Video subtitles: srt, sub, stl, ebu | Help files: hhc, hhk, chm | Localization formats: exe, dll, ocs, rc, xliff, po, resx, properties, yaml, json, osx/ios strings

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