LanguageWire Avis 24

At Languagewire they expect translators to be available at any time and willing to work for anything through a tendering system that forces language professionals to provide offers until the cheapest one is reached. The system means only translators living in inexpensive countries or those that do not have families to support or are very young and therefore eager to have some work experience will end up doing the job. To give you an idea, for a 1000 word highly technical document for a well known brand that would take you at least half a day to complete they pay in 2022 around €40 (gross) for an English into French translation. Therefore paying around €10/hour which after taxes in most European countries becomes around €6.
12 years ago the figure was 3 times that amount.

At Languagewire they do not value seniority nor how long you have been working for them or how much effort you have put to help them grow, they just care about money.

Their Machine Translation tool produces bad quality outcome and processeses tags terribly, still they insist on applying a 30% reduction on rates because it suppousedly "helps". Interestingly, the MT is based on a corpus built upon the work of the translators who are refused any rights over it and were never told their work was going to be used against them. I wonder how many of their clients are aware of this and how many of those clients know that Languagewire does not pay translators even the minimum legal wage in most countries.

Project and Account managers do not seem to care about quality, they just want the job done since they are pressed for quick turn arounds and assign it to the cheapest freelancer, mainly because they earn a comission depending on how cheap they manage to get a job done.

The new Human Resources management team are extremely young and inexperienced and do not seem to care about freelance translators. When you reach them, you get all sort of excuses (and sometimes bad manners) and they invite you to work somewhere else when you rise your concerns or ask to be paid the minimum legal wage.

Invoices feature a London address, although the bulk of the work is carried out and handled out of Denmark and Spain. I wonder whether they use that to pay less taxes. After all, they are owned by an investment fund.

God ide, bare ærgeligt at de har så ringe oversættere at det er ubrugligt - jeg fandt mere end 5 fejl ved ca. 40 ord der skulle oversættes. Når der står at de laver korrektur, forventer man ikke, at det er personen der har lavet oversættelsen der også laver korrekturen. Da jeg gjorde opmærksom på fejlen, blev det rettet, men det er bare ikke godt nok. Ærgeligt ærgeligt.

Vi har fået oversat en tekst fra Engelsk til Dansk og har betalt rigeligt for det. Da vi skimmede teksten igennem, fandt vi ud af at flere af sætningerne overhovedet ikke giver mening.

Vi har stærk mistanke til at firmaet blot bruger Google Translate til deres oversættelser. Kvaliteten af oversættelsen er af så dårlig kvalitet at vi på ingen måde kan anbefale dem til andre.

Dårlig kvalitet i oversættelsen har kostet mig reprinting af 2000 flyers, og så er de heller ikke så billige.