You’ll know us by our Scottish Accent, a voice internationally recognised as authoritative, trustworthy and sincere.
Level the Playing Field
Find your Brand's global voice
In an English-dominated global market, it can often feel like companies based in London, Dublin or New York have a head start when it comes to marketing their brand to international audiences.
Scottish Accent removes this language barrier by optimising your Brand's corporate, online and media presence in the eyes of investors, clients and consumers in UK and English-language markets.
Give your Brand a modern, global voice by hiring a Market Mediator with the cultural and professional background to make you feel at home in your target market.
Your Market. Our Market.
Commercial Advantage
We work for Italian and other European start-ups that are embarking on investment rounds with overseas investors. Our clients primarily operate in the Fintech, Legaltech, Insurtech and Edutech sectors.
Our clients are typically at an early stage of their internationalisation process, with a fully-developed local-language strategy that is yet to be enhanced by a value-added English-language strategy.
Our clients are ambitious, tech-savvy, Italian-based young professionals (30-45) who understand the importance of marginal gains.
Our clients understand the growing strategic importance of the Irish & Northern Irish markets within the Anglophone business world.
Creative Advantage
We understand the value in a cleverly delivered message
TRANSLATION SERVICES
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Legal
When doing business across borders, precision and clarity are crucial. I employ a client-centred approach by analysing your contracts and other legal texts through the eyes of your international business partners, contractors and legal professionals.
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Financial
Your investors and other stakeholders take centre stage in the translation process, so that your annual reports, filings, policies and other financials will be presented to them in a language they can easily understand and interact with.
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Corporate
Start your business off on the right foot, with quality translations of your key documents, from your articles of association to the minutes from your AGM and your firmwide Code of Conduct. Language expertise covers M&A, insolvencies, AML and many more.
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Technical
With experience in industries as diverse as naval engineering, biotechnology and software development, you can be sure that your target audience will get a specialist translation that employs the best sectoral terminology.
Legal Translator (Italian, Czech & Spanish to English)
I work with governments, multinational companies and law firms across Europe and Latin America to produce clear and informed English translations of their contracts, court submissions and corporate reports. By combining local market knowledge and legal translation expertise with a native mastery of legal and commercial English, I help clients to minimise their legal and reputational risk and to build strong, trust-based relationships with their international clients and investors.
➣ Translation centred on your clients and investors
➣ Accredited by the UK Institute of Translation
➣ +10 years' experience in legal translation
➣ Compliant with industry regulations
➣ Native translations that meet the high communicative standards of the UK market
Tell me your communication needs to start making an immediate impact with your stakeholders.
Andrew Wallace, MITI
LANGUAGE CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Firmwide Language Audits: Self-Scouting for Business
Get an independent review of your firm’s English-language processes and output with Scottish Accent’s ground-breaking Firmwide Language Audits. My purpose-built team will review your operations and web presence in English and propose an array of language solutions to boost your company’s international profile. These value-added services aim to instil an English-language culture and can include brand optimisation (website, social media), creative copywriting (advertising, PR), resource banks (industry-standard templates & clause banks) and advanced English coaching.
Audit your firm’s English in 3 simple steps:
In three quick and easy steps, you’ll have a firmwide language development plan tailored to your business goals, processes and strategies:
STEP 1: AUDIT
We analyse your English-language production to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your communication with international clients.
Working with you on site or remotely, we’ll assess areas such as your web presence, marketing, training, know-how and business development.
Each business is different, so we’ll sit down with you at the beginning to discuss which operations and staff are key to delivering an effective audit.
STEP 2: REPORT
At the end of this evaluation process, we’ll give you a detailed breakdown on your company’s English-language performance.
Our report will contain general recommendations on areas to improve and will include specific examples of how your business is affected.
Our simple traffic-light system shows you how you fare against your competitors and highlights areas of opportunity in your market.
STEP 3: ACTION PLAN
With your brand strategy in mind, we’ll sit down with you to agree specific actions to elevate your English-language operations.
You can pursue your Action Plan in whatever way suits you, but we’ll happily discuss how our Integrated Language Services can benefit you.
We can then arrange a follow-up plan to ensure that these actions have a tangible impact on your business and on your clients’ business.
Post-Audit: Integrated Language Services
Scottish Accent offers a complete range of services to help you deliver your Action Plan, each aimed at enhancing your firm’s English-language production and boosting your international profile.
We’re flexible. So you can choose between a Total Language Package that impacts all areas of your business or a Modular Solution that focuses on strategically selected areas of your operations. It’s entirely up to you.
As your dedicated language partner, we’ll regularly review and update your Action Plan to make sure you and your staff are on track to becoming a truly Bilingual Business. Our dynamic services grow with you, constantly giving you new and improved tools that adapt to your firm’s development.
What’s more, excellent communication in English is our primary concern, but we also work with a network of talented linguists and communicators to provide multilingual expertise in Italian, Spanish, Czech, Slovak and many other languages, enabling you to more effectively target a wider and more diverse audience.
We offer an array of comprehensive and standalone services:
CREATIVE ADVANTAGE
Bring your news, views and ideas to life with our Creative Advantage service. We adapt your English & foreign-language texts to the demands of an international audience and local markets with hard-hitting content packaged in a compact, tone-perfect format.
LANGUAGE COACHING
We believe in the value of a tailored, one-to-one approach to language development. We work with your key personnel to pinpoint specific areas for improvement in their writing skills and monitor their progress in their day-to-day work. This approach can also be adapted to small groups.
ONLINE BRAND CURATION
Your English-language website is the global window into your organisation, so it’s important to keep it up to date with quality content. Combine our social media curation and SEO enhancement services with our constant QA monitoring to bring your message to a wider international audience.
QA & KNOW-HOW
Our template management and industry glossary services ensure precision, consistency and fluency in all your written materials, laying a truly bilingual foundation for your firm. We can also help you build English-language clause banks and legislation banks for instantly approved language.
TRANSLATION PROCESS
We value your in-house linguists. That’s why we want to surround them with technologies and tools that streamline their work, from dynamic glossaries to translation software. We also offer a centralised translation management system for firms that lack an in-house translation capacity.
PR & MEDIA
As long-time Prague residents active in the international community, we know where English-speaking locals meet and get their news. Our multilingual and journalistic background places us in a privileged position to track and enhance your company’s media coverage.
A background in word-perfect English
My philosophy is simple: only by targeting the highest communicative standards of the UK market can companies excel in the wider global environment.
Contact
For a translation quote, submit details of your translation request in the form alongside, including word count and deadline, or email the document(s) for translation directly to team@scottishaccent.eu and I will get back to you immediately.
For more information or a quote for Scottish Accent’s ground-breaking Firmwide Language Audits or related services, please drop me a line in the contact form alongside.
Thank you!