Multilingual Market Research. French, German Spanish, Italian, Polish

A project was recently completed by Elanga International involving research into 5 world markets Spain, France, Italy, Poland and Germany. An existing UK client consultancy and specialist in their particular sector contacted Elanga to enquire about research into European markets . A questionnaire was sent to us by our client outlining all the questions to be answered which would be used by them to subsequently assist in their research. Our team of telephone interpreters were instructed and given all contact details of the people and organisations to be contacted. Permission had already been obtained from the Directorate in this sector to do the multilingual research. These people were all key people of influence in this particular sector who were able to answer questions directly.

All answers were recorded by our interpreters and fed back to our client word for word in a document in question and answer format.

E-mail responses and communications were also translated for this project.

The only true way to have your message or product fully understood by a foreign audience is to present it in their own language. We are very proud of our client that they did not attempt to send all communication in English and that they have shown that necessary respect when hoping to win new business opportunities internationally.

Elanga also provides interpreters for a wide range of commercial activities. Recent assignments have included a series of conferences/seminars and company meetings.

Elanga understands the importance of high quality thorough translation, ensuring that resulting actions are on a truly sound linguistic foundation, whether for use in achieving commercial objectives or meeting internal communication objectives.

Elanga has a dedicated team of UK translators who hold specialist skills in technical, legal and financial work amongst others. Translators only translate into their native language and have a minimum of 10 years experience in commercial translation work. All our work is vetted and approved by our quality control team before submission to clients.

English to Serbian Translation Rail sector company profiles

English to Serbian Cyrillic translation. As a Midlands language provider to UKTI ( UK Trade and Investment) Elanga recently provided the translation of the company profiles for delegates going to Serbia on a Rail Sector Trade Mission. The profiles, once translated, form a Brochure to be presented to prospective business contacts as UK companies look to increase sales and business opportunities. Accuracy in the translation of this document is of the utmost importance and the translation was finally submitted to UKTI after it was completed and proof read in a pretty short time frame. The translation, once received, will then go to print containing information about the Rail Sector companies visiting Serbia and will enable the Serbian officials to understand more about what these companies do.

Elanga International is a progressive International language consultancy founded 10 years

ago in the East Midlands and based in Derbyshire, UK. Elanga provides a complete range of language services in all world languages through a retained network of language specialist. The firm’s coverage is nationwide and international. Elanga’s experience within the private sector is widespread both in terms of company size and market. The firm has extensive experience with the high-end SMEs market and nationally with publicly quoted blue chip organisations.

Elanga understands the importance of high quality thorough translation, ensuring that resulting actions are on a truly sound linguistic foundation, whether for use in achieving commercial objectives or meeting internal communication objectives.

Elanga has a dedicated team of UK translators who hold specialist skills in technical, legal and financial work amongst others. Translators only translate into their native language and have a minimum of 10 years experience in commercial translation work. All our work is vetted and approved by our quality control team before submission to clients.

Elanga also provides interpreters for a wide range of commercial activities. Recent assignments have included a series of conferences/seminars and company meetings.

English to Polish Translation Service

As a Midlands language provider to UKTI ( UK Trade and Investment ) Elanga provides translation service of the company profile information English to Polish in the delegate brochure for the forthcoming Rail Sector Trade Mission to Poland. The company information contained therein will present to fufture business prospects a clear outline of what the company specialises in as they look to increase sales and do business in Poland.

Accuracy in the translation of this document is of absolute importance. Elanga submitted the final translation after it had been completed within a short time frame by our Team 1 English to Polish translator and proof read by our specialist Polish proof reader prior to submission to UKTI.

Elanga International is a progressive International language consultancy founded 10 years ago in the East Midlands and based in Derbyshire, UK. Elanga provides a complete range of language services in all world languages through a retained network of language specialist. The firm’s coverage is nationwide and international. Elanga’s experience within the private sector is widespread both in terms of company size and market. The firm has extensive experience with the high-end SMEs market and nationally with publicly quoted blue chip organisations.
Elanga understands the importance of high

quality thorough translation, ensuring that resulting actions are on a truly sound linguistic foundation, whether foruse in achieving commercial objectives or meeting internal communication objectives.

Elanga has a dedicated team of UK translators who hold specialist skills in technical, legal and financial work amongst others. Translators only translate into their native language and have a minimum of 10 years experience in commercial translation work. All our work is vetted and approved by our quality control team before submission to clients.

Elanga also provides interpreters for a wide range of commercial activities. Recent assignments have included a series of conferences/seminars and company meetings.

Work Experience Student from Nottingham High School

A girl student from Nottingham High School hoping to study languages spent a week at Elanga head office observing how the role of languages in the commercial world has become increasingly important when looking to trade internationally.

Here is what she said about her experience with us.

As a year 11 student at Nottingham Girls’ High School, I (JW) had to find a week’s work experience to undertake during the summer. I knew that I wanted to find work experience to do with languages, but had absolutely no idea where to look. After searching around the internet, we came across ‘Elanga’, a Derbyshire based language services business, and called Elaine Walker, the Managing Director of the company, to talk over the possibilities of spending a week with Elanga.

I’ve always had an extremely strong interest in and passion for languages, and thoroughly enjoy studying them. Seeing as I’m about to start my A-levels (Spanish and German) and hope to study languages at university, my enthusiasm for languages drove me to further my knowledge of the different ways in which languages can be used in the business world. My current experience with languages involves studying languages purely as an academic pursuit, with a view to gaining GCSE (and A-level) qualifications, however I realised I needed to take a look at the different options involving the choice of languages as a future career path.

Spending the week at Elanga has given me a sound understanding of how languages are used commercially to help companies trade internationally, where language would otherwise be a barrier. My experience over the week has increased my awareness of the importance of languages in the very multicultural and multilingual world we are living in, helping me to think with a more commercial, business-trained and focused mind.

I’ve seen first-hand the way in which a company functions, and have explored the different ways that you can market business services offered by a language services provider, such as Elanga. I was delighted to be able to help out with the electronic mailing and marketing, contributing to and redesigning the company PowerPoint and producing a video which is visible on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/elangainternational), with the purpose of reaching out to more businesses and potential clients.

The week at Elanga has been an invaluable experience, and, more importantly, has been extremely enjoyable.

Language and Cultural Awareness Training China

An informal tea ceremony marked the start of a day of Language and Cultural Awareness training for business delegates looking to do business with China. Recognising that cultural error canbe costly a day at the Barcelo hotel Hinckley proved to be very informative in briefing prospects on the marked business and cutural differences between China and the UK. Elanga Internationals China Consultant covered aspects such as meeting and greeting, how to address people, gift giving culture, exchanging business cards, dining out, social etiquette, key language phrases and maintaining good business relations with colleagues in China amongst other language and culture topics. [more ...]

MEXICO MATTERS Language and Cultural Do's and Dont's

July the 27th 2010 was the day 35 + business delegates attended a UKTI ,UK trade and Investment, Mexico Matters Seminar in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

The people present were there to explore trading opportunities and to equip themselves with the tools they require to be competitive on the world stage. Delegates were all looking into the possibility of attending the forthcoming Trade Mission to Monterrey Mexico and Tzitzis Sanchez, Elanga Internationals Mexico Business Consultant presented a seminar to all present on the Cultural and business Do’s and Donts when looking to do business with Mexico. [more ...]

Emigrating to France? Learn the lingo before you go.

A family who had received tution from Elanga prior to their emigration to France have written to us. We have copied  the letter thay have written for your information. [more ...]

Doing Business in Brazil

A  trade mission to Brazil for Midlands companies proved very popular. At least 10 companies were taking part recently in the UKTI trade for export mission to pursue the possibility of new business opportunities in Brazil.

Elanga International provided one of its specialist consultants to brief all the delegates on matters of business etiquette and cultural awarenes. [more ...]

Delegate Brochure into Bulgarian

A group of companies from the Midlands recently went to Bulgaria on a UKTI organised trade mission to explore the possibility of  new contacts and business opportunities in Bulgaria in the Rail sector.The East Midlands has a very strong legacy of activity in the Rail Sector centred around Derby which has the largest cluster of rail development and supply chain companies in Europe. [more ...]

NATO Exec receives emergency Business French Tuition

Speaking French as a NATO employee if of paramount importance. When your French is very rusty then you quickly have to improve it. Our NATO colleague flew from Luxembourg to improve his spoken ability in French prior to being posted in Afghanistan for a period of time. [more ...]