Polish Translator

Our Polish Translators - Making your Communication Effective

We make sure that a Polish Translator from Prestige Network applies his/her expertise and local knowledge to translate your message in a way that will be understood well and interpreted correctly and accurately. Due to the language variation and cultural differences between countries, translations need to be adapted for the target language, sentence structure, tone, and including cultural backgrounds. With all this, we pride ourselves in providing the best quality Polish Translator(s) and can outperform by far other translation companies when it comes to translating your important documents.

By coming to Prestige you receive the best quality, perfectly formatted translation. A Polish Translator who works for Prestige Network understands the nature of communities, the work of the Government, Local Authorities, Health Sector (NHS), Charities, Police, etc. Prestige Network works with only the best linguists and a Polish Translator working with Prestige Network will always have an expert grasp of the languages he or she translates to and from and is always able to convey accurately the meaning of the text that is translated.

Fast and Reliable Service

We are a market leader amongst today's translation companies in the UK Public Sector. All our Polish Translator (s) are highly qualified and experienced native speaking professionals. All work is handled by the most experienced Polish Translator (s) for the required project; and all translations are checked and verified by one of our professional linguists and then double checked by an experienced Project Manager to ensure the highest of quality - every time!

Strict Confidentiality

Prestige Network adheres to a strict privacy policy. Each and every Polish Translator working for Prestige Network confirms to the privacy rules for the documents he or she is translating. All information is kept strictly confidential.

Complete Range of Polish Language Services

Prestige Network offers so much more than just translation, we perform problem-solving and brainstorming techniques unique to our industry, in order to provide you with complete language solutions and ultimately a unique feeling of consumer fulfilment. We enjoy what we do well, and therefore remain interested in your project far beyond completion. Do not be surprised if your Polish Translator calls you up to ask how your final court date went. Do not be surprised if one of our specialists contacts you with regard to a specifically tough phrase... Remember, once you contact us, we are as much a part of your project as you are of ours. We believe that our experiences will be invaluable to your project, cooperation is the key to translation and time is money. With a company philosophy that runs deep, you should contact us immediately for a special business experience like no other. Knowing that you require a professional and dependable person to run with your business and possibly even travel overseas with you, we have an advanced and beneficial cooperative member of staff to suit you and your industry sector.

Ultimately, if you want to save money, time, and face use Prestige Network to find a Polish Translator or Polish Interpreter. You will be impressed with the range and quality of service you get for your money. For a breakdown of the services and alternatives that we offer, take a few minutes to browse our website.

Dedicated web-site for Polish language services

Prestige is committed to serving the needs of businesses and public sector relating to both Polish Translation and Polish Interpreting and other Polish language services. Please visit our web-site www.translation-polish.co.uk or www.polish-interpreting.co.uk for dedicated Polish language services from legal translation certification to website localisation.

Polish - General Information

Polish is spoken by around 42 million people mainly in Poland. It is written in the Roman alphabet and is rich phonetically as it has 10 vowels and 35 consonants. Polish is written in the Roman alphabet augmented by the use of diacritical marks. It is very rich phonetically and has 10 vowels and 35 consonants. In pronunciation, the stress is normally placed on the penultimate syllable of a word. Prestige currently has over 400 Polish Interpreters and approximately 100 Polish Translators in its database, and these Polish professionals work right across the UK! So when you need a Polish Translator, Prestige can help YOU!

A small selection of short Polish phrases.

Polish Language Statistics

Polish is the official language of Poland; it is spoken by most of the 38 million inhabitants of Poland (census 2002). All Prestige Network Polish Translator(s) are native speaking Poles and originally inhabitants of Poland. There are also some native speakers of Polish in western Belarus and Ukraine and eastern Lithuania. Because of emigration from Poland that has occurred over time, millions of Polish-speakers may be found in countries such as Brazil, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, United States, etc. The estimated number of Poles who live beyond the borders of Poland is 10 million. This puts the number of native speakers of Polish all over the world between 40 and 48 million. According to recent statistics, there are about 43 million first language speakers of Polish worldwide.

Polish has the second largest number of speakers among Slavic languages after Russian. This helps to explain why demand for Polish Translator(s) is so high. It is the main representative of the Lechitic branch of the West Slavic languages. The Polish language originated in the areas of present-day Poland from several local Western Slavic dialects, most notably those spoken in Greater Poland and Lesser Poland. It shares some vocabulary with the languages of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.

Polish Dialects

Prestige Network has Polish Translator(s) available that are able to communicate fluently in the various dialects that fall within the language. The Polish language became far more uniform in the second half of the 20th century.

Standard Polish is still spoken somewhat differently in the various regions of the country, although the differences between these broad dialects are only small. Our Polish Translators understand and are able to communicate in these dialects. There is never any difficulty in mutual understanding, and non-native speakers are generally unable to distinguish among them easily. The regional differences can mostly be traced back to old tribal divisions from around a thousand years ago; the most significant of these in terms of numbers of speakers are Great Polish (spoken in the west), Lesser Polish (spoken in the south and southeast), Mazovian (Mazur) spoken throughout the central and eastern parts of the country. Mazovian shares some features with the Kashubian language. Our Polish translators are able to communicate in all these dialects fluently.

Some more characteristic but less widespread regional dialects that a Prestige Network Polish Translator can assist you in include:

1. Góralski (highlander): spoken in the mountainous areas bordering the Czech and Slovak Republics. The Górale (highlanders) take great pride in their culture and the dialect.
2. In the western and northern regions that were largely resettled by Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union, the older generation speaks a dialect of Polish characteristic of the Eastern Borderlands.
3. Kashubian: Spoken in the Pomorze region west of Gdansk on the Baltic sea is closely related to Polish, and was once considered a dialect by some. However, the differences are large enough to merit its classification as a separate language.
4. Poles living in Lithuania (particularly in the Vilnius region), Belarus (particularly the northwest), and in the northeast of Poland continue to speak the Eastern Borderlands dialect which is more "musical" than standard Polish, hence easy to distinguish.
5. Some city dwellers, especially the less affluent population, had their own distinctive dialects. An example of this is the Warsaw dialect, still spoken by some of the population of Praga, on the eastern bank of the Vistula. These are now rarely used.
6. Many Poles living in emigrant communities, e.g. in the USA, whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as it was spoken in the first half of the 20th century, but which sound archaic to contemporary visitors from Poland.

Borrowed words

Polish has, over the centuries, borrowed a large number of words from other languages. Borrowed words have been usually rapidly adapted in the following ways:

1. Their spelling was usually altered to approximately keep the pronunciation, but have them written according to Polish phonetics.
2. Word endings are liberally applied to almost any word to produce verbs, nouns, adjectives, as well as adding the appropriate endings for cases of nouns, diminutives, augmentatives, etc.

Depending on the historical period, borrowing has proceeded from various languages. Recent borrowing is primarily of "international" words from the English language, mainly those that have Latin or Greek roots, for example komputer (computer), produkcja (production), korupcja (corruption) etc. Slang sometimes borrows and alters common English words, e.g. luknac (to look), but these borrowings are usually short lived, going out of fashion after several years. Concatenation of parts of words (e.g. auto-moto), which is not native to Polish but common in e.g. English, is also sometimes used.

Other notable influences in the past have been Latin, Czech, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Turkish, Old Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian

Range of Services and Nationwide Coverage

Here is a comprehensive list of services we offer other than Polish translation:

Polish translation, Polish interpreting - face-to-face and direct, telephone interpreting, multilingual distribution, desk top publishing (DTP), multilingual website translation and localization, British Sign Language (BSL), printing, voice recording, Braille, diversity training and cultural consultancy, language training and teaching, localization, simultaneous interpretation, multilingual copywriting, and much more.

For more information on any of our Polish language services including Polish Translation, please contact us at sales@prestigenetwork.com or call 01635 866 888.