Global Village Translation specialises in professional Chinese translation services for English to Chinese and Chinese to English language pairs. We can also translate Chinese into almost any other language.

Our team of professional and certified Chinese translators consist of qualified experts in various different fields such as legal, financial, medical, etc.

No matter what size your Chinese translation requirement is, Global Village Translation is always there to assist you with your translation needs. Our translation team have vast experience in translating a wide variety of documents including marriage certificates, divorce decrees, transcripts, birth and death certificates, diplomas, and any other Chinese document you may need translated.

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Chinese Website Translation

As the world’s most spoken language and the fastest growing language on the web, making your website available to all the Chinese speaking internet users in the world can greatly improve traffic to your website and ultimately sales. Chinese search engines and directories will not usually list a site that is not in their language.

Our outstanding Chinese software engineers and quality assurance editors can localise any Chinese website. In this age of globalisation, localising your website into the Chinese language can be the single most effective improvement you can make to your flow of traffic. It is an easy way to expand your business and could be the most cost effective investment you can make.

We also offer services for Chinese Mandarin and Chinese Cantonese interpretation, voice-overs, transcriptions and audio and video translation. Whatever your Chinese translation needs are, we can provide for them.

The Chinese Language

Mandarin is the most widespread Chinese dialect and is the official language of China and Taiwan and is one of the official languages of Singapore. The Cantonese dialect is the most spoken language in Chinese settlements around the world.

Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language Family. There are over 1.3 billion (1/5 of the world’s population) native Chinese speakers in the world. With over 3000 year’s history, Chinese is not only the most spoken language in the world, but also one of the world’s most ancient languages.  Chinese language is spoken in China, Malaysia and Singapore.

The substantial and continuing growth of China within the last few decades has resulted China possessing a major cultural and economic presence globally. It is because of this impact on the international economy that has lead to the expanding demand for Chinese and its use in various market sectors.

Traditional and Simplified Chinese - The Written Forms

Written Chinese has thousands of distinctive characters called ideographs. These characters consist of two elements: phonetic indicates the sound and signific (or determinative) indicates the meaning of a word.

In 1952, the new government of the People's Republic of China made the decision to simplify the written Chinese language to make it easier for the general population to become literate. Thus two distinct versions of written Chinese came into being - traditional and simplified Chinese. These are easy for the native speaker to tell apart.

Simplified characters are used in China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

The simplified writing system differs in two ways from the traditional writing system. The first is a reduction of the number of strokes per character and secondly, a reduction of the number of characters in common use - two different characters are now written with the same character.

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