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Woodside Translation Translation Office
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The front room of a small translation office in daylight, with nobody in it

The office

About Woodside Translation

A translation office on 61st Street, a minute from the elevated line, where a document you need somebody to accept is read by a person who signs their name to it.

What this office is

A translation and interpreting office on 61st Street, a minute from the elevated line, open since 2011, three minutes on foot from the station where the elevated line and the commuter railroad share one building. It covers twenty-four languages with a standing panel, and it arranges several more case by case rather than pretending to staff them.

Half the reason it is out here rather than in Manhattan is that the consulates are over there and the people are here. The other half is the counter: a great many of the documents that come through this door arrive in somebody's hand, in a folder, with a letter from an office attached to them that nobody has explained.

A record for an agency, a court, a university or a consulate.

A document somebody has to accept

A birth certificate for a filing, a transcript for an admissions office, a police record for a visa. What makes these different from every other kind of translation is that the reader is an official who did not choose you, and what they are checking first is not the prose but the certificate attached to it. That certificate is a signed statement by a named person, and it is the part a machine cannot produce.

Most single records are back with you in two working days.

What this involves

Contracts, filings, statements, manuals, a website.

A file for work

Nobody official is going to look at the certificate, so the question is a different one: does the translated text do the same job as the original did. A contract has to survive being argued about, a manual has to be followed by somebody holding a tool, and a landing page has to sell. We quote these by the word, we say which of them we would use machine translation on, and we charge less where we do.

Quoted by the word, most files inside a week.

What this involves

A meeting, a clinic, a deposition, a call.

Somebody in the room

Interpreting is spoken and it is live, which means it cannot be checked afterwards and the preparation is most of the job. We take the briefing, the names and the documents in advance, and we tell you honestly which settings we will not cover — a courtroom in this state appoints its own interpreters and we are not one of them.

On-site booked two working days ahead; remote often the same day.

What this involves

How the work is priced

Everything is published. Records are priced by the page, where a page is 250 words rather than a sheet of paper; professional work is priced by the word and by discipline; interpreting is priced by the hour or by the half-hour block. The whole card is on one page and the estimator shows its arithmetic rather than only its answer.

Machine translation with human review is on that card too, at about half the rate of the same text translated from scratch, because an office that will not name the cheaper thing it also sells is not making an argument.

The whole rate card

Who is here

Five people, named on their own page, with what each of them actually works on. Nobody on this site is described as a certified, accredited, licensed or sworn translator, and no professional body appears anywhere on it — that is deliberate, it is explained on the team page, and it comes with the four questions worth putting to a company you are about to instruct.

At the counter somebody can usually deal with you in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Polish, Romanian, which is a shorter list than the one we translate and is the honest one for walking in without arranging anything.

The people here

And what this office does not do

There is a page for each of the ten, because each of them is a claim this trade makes routinely and each of them is one somebody has probably already made to you. They are the argument the rest of the site rests on.

There is not one testimonial on this website. No rating, no award, no client count, and nothing that says trusted by anybody, because these are invented people and every one of those would be a fact nobody could check.

Where our answers stop. Nothing on this site is legal or immigration advice and nobody here may give you any. We can describe what a document is and what offices have usually asked for; we cannot tell you what to file, what your case needs, or what a document means for you.

Nobody is on the other end of this. This is a demonstration website. Woodside Translation is not a real translation company, nobody answers the telephone number on this site, no document sent here is read by anybody, and no estimate produced here is an offer. If you have a filing deadline or a document that has to be accepted by an agency, a court or a consulate, please instruct a real translation company.

Send us the document

A photograph is enough to quote from. Or work out the figure yourself first — the estimator shows its arithmetic rather than only its answer.

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