Our work

Language work built on working relationships.

Explore published client experiences and language work for university services, video producers and learning teams at Cross Border Translation.

Language work built on working relationships.

We publish what clients said, not who they are.

A lot of translation companies prove themselves with a wall of client logos. A logo tells you a company once paid an invoice. It does not tell you what the work was, whether it arrived on time, or whether anyone would commission it again.

Published here instead is a small number of accounts from people who have worked with us repeatedly, in their words, about specific projects. There are fewer of them than a logo wall would hold. They are more useful.

What a long working relationship changes.

The difference between a first project and a fiftieth is mostly invisible from the outside. The same linguist has already learned your product vocabulary. Your glossary exists and is maintained. Your file format is understood, so nobody loses a day to a broken export. Your reviewer knows what to check and what to leave alone.

The practical result is that briefs get shorter and quotes get faster. A client who has worked with us for years often sends a file with one line of context, because everything else was agreed once and written down.

That accumulation is the actual product. The translation is the visible part of it.

Where to go from here.

The client stories cover two quite different relationships: a video production studio commissioning explainer script translations across a wide range of languages, and a university language service extending its own capacity. Read whichever is closer to your situation.

If neither is, the sector pages describe how the work is shaped for agencies, universities, learning teams, media producers, international businesses and digital teams. Those pages are about constraints rather than credentials: what tends to go wrong in each context, and what we do about it.

Let’s make the next step clear

Good language work starts with your brief.

Tell us the content, languages and deadline. We’ll help you define the right scope and handover.

Tell us about your project