We speak with a Scottish Accent, a voice internationally recognised as authoritative, trustworthy and sincere.
A distinctive voice across English-speaking markets
At Scottish Accent, we elevate your firm’s English-language communication across all levels of your business. Our high standards encourage you to become a truly bilingual business, enabling you to stand out above your domestic and regional competitors and to eliminate the in-built advantage that UK and US-based companies often enjoy when communicating in international markets.
Our Business Translation service offers your firm a Commercial and Creative Advantage in your client and customer relationships. Our native industry-accredited translation team apply our cross-sectoral expertise to your corporate, marketing and technical texts, bringing your documents to life in language that is clear, modern and flexible. Our specialty lies in legal and financial translation, but you’ll also find our native solutions perfect for your marketing needs.
And with our ground-breaking Firmwide Language Audits, we analyse your firm’s English-language processes and output. We then 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.
Choose your local
Our philosophy is simple: we produce language of a quality that will help your company stand out in the competitive UK & international markets. We believe that only by producing documents that meet the highest communicative standards of UK clients and investors can companies excel in the wider global environment.
Scottish Accent Translation
Scottish Accent covers all your translation needs. Our Commercial Advantage service provides native, industry-specialist translations that will help you build strong, trust-based relationships with your overseas clients and investors.
But we also offer you a Creative Advantage by packaging your business, product or service in captivating, hard-hitting language that gets your brand to stand out and makes for more interactive advertising among your target market.
Scottish Accent offers:
Native translations into English that meet the highest UK market standards
Cross-sectoral expertise applied to your business needs.
International experience in industries such as banking, energy and telecom
Compliance with industry regulations and standards
A direct line to the translator
Our translation team is led by Andrew Wallace, a UK-accredited legal and financial translator who has worked with companies across Europe and Latin America for over a decade, translating from Czech, Italian, Spanish and Slovak into English.
We also work with a network of experienced linguists across several languages, including court-sworn English-to-Czech translators.
Business Translation
Make an immediate impact with your international stakeholders.
Legal Translation
Whether it's your contracts, tender documentation, due diligence reports or court rulings, Scottish Accent has a breadth of experience working with law firms, government and multinational companies across a range of industries.
Our extensive knowledge of legal systems across Europe (including the UK), means that your finished translation will be technically sound as well as natural and clear to its intended readers.
We understand the importance of your own client relationships, so we take special care to protect your business against costly misunderstandings.
We have experience and expertise in:
Contracts & Agreements
Judicial & Arbitration
Procurement & Tenders
Client Relationship Management
Financial Translation
Your current and target investors want to read your financials and business insight in a language they can easily understand and interact with.
Our team has extensive experience in financial reporting, M&As, insolvency, regulatory compliance, insurance and corporate finance, and we work with banks and conglomerates across both Europe and Latin America.
Our translations are consistent with international reporting standards to ensure the best industry language, while our native fluency lets us tell your story in a way that appeals to your stakeholders.
We have experience and expertise in:
Banking & Financial Regulation
Insurance & Financial Services
Corporate Governance
Financial Crime & AML
Technical Translation
At Scottish Accent, we supplement our legal and financial expertise with a complex understanding of your day-to day operations.
We apply our experience in industries as diverse as naval engineering, biotechnology, architectural preservation and software development to produce informed English translations for your specialist audience.
With our experienced cross-sectoral team, you’re guaranteed the best industry terminology built around a clearly worded text that your readers will easily be able to follow, understand and implement.
We have experience and expertise in:
Engineering & Construction
Manufacturing & Industry
Industrial Patents
Software & Localisation
Creative Advantage
We’re not just language professionals: we’re Language Creatives.
Marketing & Branding
There's a good reason you're marketing your product or service internationally: because it's great and customers love it!
Language can be the key to a brand’s international success, and a consistent, creative and powerful communication strategy is essential.
Scottish Accent are steeped in the UK market, making us your #1 option for creating native content your customers will want to engage with.
Film, Media & Gaming
We subtitle films and TV series and provide clear voiceovers (in an authentic Scottish accent) for your commercial and cultural productions.
And if that’s not enough, with our media localisation service we give your video games and e-sports a native makeover for UK markets.
To top it all off, we’re here to give you an authentic English-language voice on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.
Tourism, Sport & Leisure
We bring destinations, events and experiences to life with informed, passionate reporting for travel websites and special interest magazines.
Our cross-cultural knowledge combined with our passion for travel and flair for writing will excite a younger generation of thrill-seeking travellers.
We also partner with professional sports teams to showcase their brand to international audiences, commercial partners and new investors.
Reach out to us with your translation needs or request a fee quote to start making an immediate impact with your stakeholders.
“Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible, because life is full of the unexpected.”
— Sir Alex Ferguson
Firmwide Language Audit: Self-Scouting for Business
How does your company market itself to an international clientele? Does your business development strategy prioritise your business’s English-language potential?
With more than a decade of experience working with clients across Europe, we understand that many companies lack the time, resources and native-speaker expertise to step back and objectively evaluate how they do business in English.
Our Firmwide Language Audits analyse every aspect of your firm’s English-language production, from your customer advertising to your investor relations. We use this audit information to tailor an Action Plan that maximises your message and fosters a genuine Bilingual Business culture at your company.
Our Firmwide Language Audit offers you:
A cross-departmental quality control tool.
Immediate steps to boost your online presence.
English-language resources catering to your industry.
A language component for your BD and personnel plans.
Monitoring of your English-language performance over time.
Audit your firm’s English in 3 simple steps:
In three simple steps, you’ll have a firmwide language development plan tailored to your business goals, processes and strategies.
STEP 1: EVALUATE
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: AUDIT REPORT
At the end of this week-long 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Introducing Scottish Accent
Our background is in delivering word-perfect English
Scottish Accent was founded in 2021 by two Prague-based Scots, legal translator Andrew Wallace and journalist and copywriter David Creighton.
As language specialists with over 25 years of experience working with firms in the Czech Republic and beyond, we set out to give our clients an international brand strategy.
We help our clients market their brands with a fluency, flair and consistent voice that only native speakers with local market knowledge and sectoral expertise can provide.
Our Mission is to enhance your company’s international reach, cross-demographic appeal and brand credibility by engineering a Bilingual Business mindset that impacts every area of your operations.
Founder
Andrew Wallace
Legal Translator & Language Auditor
Born in Scotland. Trained in Italy. Professionalised in Mexico. Rooted in the Czech Republic.
The UK is Andrew’s home market. What's more, his translation experience and familiarity with the Italian, Czech, Spanish and Latin American markets place his in an ideal position to make your brand sound truly "local".
Andrew is an accredited member of the UK Institute of Translation and Interpreting, and has masters degrees in Czech and Italian Studies (Glasgow) and Legal Translation (Genoa)..
Why choose Scottish Accent?
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1. Professional native-tongue solutions
As native English speakers, we recognise that we start from a privileged position to target international audiences. But what has shaped us is our extensive experience in the Czech and international markets and our cross-sectoral background in journalism, translation and language consultancy.
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2. Our ground-breaking Firmwide Language Audits
Our Firmwide Language Audits offer you a total perspective of your company’s English-language operations. By analysing your communicative strengths and weaknesses, you can make changes that matter to protect your international brand and effectively target a global audience.
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3. We're your international market mediators
UK & US companies often enjoy an in-built advantage due to the quality and breadth of their English-language output. Scottish Accent reverts that trend by combining international expertise with quality native content to place your communications on a par with anything produced in London, Dublin or New York.
Contact us
For more information or a quote for our ground-breaking Firmwide Language Audits or related services, please drop us a line in the contact form alongside.
For a Translation quote, you can submit details of your translation request, including word count and deadline, or email the document(s) for translation directly to team@scottishaccent.eu and we’ll get back to you immediately.
Prague, Czech Republic