Shanghainese Translation Services

Yes. Translation in Shanghainese - a language of Shanghai and the surrounding Wu-speaking region - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in written in Chinese characters, with no fully standard written form, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

In written in Chinese characters, with no fully standard written form. Written properly, the Shanghainese output can be searched, quoted and reused by anyone who reads the language; typed phonetically by a non-speaker, it cannot. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Shanghainese files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned translator and the reviewer. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. The Shanghainese text itself is written in written in Chinese characters, with no fully standard written form, with a romanised version alongside it if you ask. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Send the files or a link, say what you need and when, and an exact quote comes back within minutes. Once you approve it the work goes to a translator suited to the material. Say which Shanghainese variety the speakers use when you send the files, because that is what decides who the job goes to. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Revisions are free for 30 days after delivery.

Both. The translator always works into their own first language, so an English target goes to an English native speaker and a Shanghainese target goes to a Shanghainese one. That is what keeps long-form text reading naturally instead of merely accurately. Formatting, layout rebuilding and standard delivery are inside the per-word rate.

Shanghainese has a smaller pool of qualified translators than the major languages, so availability is confirmed before you pay and not promised then rescheduled. Most requests are placed within hours; where the wait would be longer, you are told at quoting stage. A single page is a normal order here, and most certified filings start with exactly that.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Shanghainese sits outside the commonly requested languages, so availability is confirmed before the quote is issued and not after you have paid. Quotes are calculated from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.

The delivery date is agreed before work starts, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers anything urgent. Material sent at the end of your working day is in progress overnight. Shanghainese material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each translation is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. The reviewer on each Shanghainese file checks names and terms against the source instead of reading the text through, because this material is full of names nobody can guess at. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.