Eloquo Language Services

Freelance English to Dutch translator

Full-time at your service since the beginning of this century

Eloquo doesn’t handle any paper but only touches electronic files and saves a lot of trees (and time) doing so. We:
• Translate and transcreate English, French and German documents into Dutch.
• Write, rewrite, copyedit and proofread Dutch texts.

Eloquo writes Dutch copy and translates your documents into Dutch. We do all that ourselves; we’re not an agency. All our services should be equally profitable and our aim is to invoice around € 33.00 per worked hour, irrespective of the activity. Our prices per word are fixed; the time planning is an estimate: some subjects are tougher than others. Below you’ll find an overview of our estimated capacity and our prices per word for French to Dutch, English to Dutch and German to Dutch translations. We count the number of words automatically in Microsoft Word.

Professional translators only translate into their mother tongue. Dutch (NL-NL) is our only target language. Use the directory of this website to find a German, French or English freelancer. That’s also a good place to go for medical and legal translations.

Please contact us by e-mail or phone for more information about our services.
• Send an e-mail to [email protected].
• Call +33 4 70 47 32 97 or if there’s no reply +33 6 80 64 65 49. We speak English, French, German and Dutch.
• Write to: Gerard de Noord, Le Bouis, 03240 Deux-Chaises, France.

Cooperation with Eloquo

I’m always interested in working together with colleagues and agencies on concrete projects and assignments. I’m less interested in inclusion in the databases of agencies I’ll never hear from again.

Tariffs, discounts and surcharges

We don’t charge extra for rush jobs. Ask for discount for texts of more than 10,000 words. For big translations, using your Translation Memory (Wordfast, Trados, TMX, etc.) or your pretranslated Word documents, the following reductions apply: 50% discount for 100% matches and repetitions, 25% discount for 95%-99% matches, no discount for 0%-94% matches.

Rates

Copywriting and transcreation
You provide us with various Dutch, English, French and German documents, web addresses of your competitors and advice, and give us a description of the intended audience. Eloquo does some research and delivers sound, well-written, well-formatted Dutch texts, optimised for your target audience.
170 words per hour, € 0.20 per word or € 33.00 per hour.

Translation
You send us your English, French or German documents (and optionally your Translation Memories) as an e-mail attachment. Eloquo delivers a professional translation, optimised for your target audience and without differing from the original layout.
300 words per hour, € 0.11 per source word.

Editing
You send us the source and target documents (or the segmented document) of a finished translation. Eloquo corrects errors in spelling, grammar, formatting and style, and fixes inconsistent, unclear and faltering sentences.
600 words per hour, € 0.06 per source word.

Proofreading
You send us the source and target documents (or the segmented document) of a finished and already edited translation. Eloquo corrects the last glitches and inconsistencies.
1000 words per hour, € 0.03 per source or target word.

The difference between editing and proofreading is not always clear. It depends largely on the quality of the translation provided. A rule of thumb is that the source text is not really necessary to proofread a translation. If the editing process turns out to be more expensive than agreed, Eloquo will contact you before starting the job. Translators are regularly invited to post-process machine translations – preferably at a proofreading rate. I found out that I’m not suited for that kind of work.
My hourly rate of € 33.00 is also my minimum rate.