Italian Translation

Italian translation; Italian interpreting. Translation to Italian? Translating from Italian? Need an Italian translator or interpreter?

For 20 years Andiamo’s clients have entrusted their Italian-language assignments to our team of highly-qualified specialist linguists Here’s why our clients have used our Italian services recently:

• A worldwide lubricant-chart producer has entrusted its translation to us for 12 years
• Europe's leading brand of domestic and commercial water treatment products Andiamo! translates data sheets, training manuals, safety instructions, technical documents and correspondence
• We have translated technical texts about circulating pumps for the world’s number one distributor of heating and plumbing products
• A global leader in engineered access hardware has been our client for over a decade: Andiamo! translates both their marketing and highly-technical material into a number of languages
• The ‘finest pencils in the world’ find their overseas markets thanks to Andiamo’s translations and typesetting
• Andiamo translates publicity material into several languages, including Italian, for one of the largest independent exhibition and conference organising companies in the UK
• The world’s leaders in the manufacture and supply of technologically advanced marine, protective & yacht coatings entrust the translation and typesetting of the safety instructions on their paint cans to Andiamo!
• Andiamo’s translation, typesetting and interpreting skills in Italian have been used to assist with safety briefings and general communications with a small Italian workforce on behalf of a business support organisation offering facilities, industrial, project and equipment services plus public finance initiative investments

Did you know…?
Andiamo! means ‘let’s go’ , so…. 

Although spoken mainly in Italy by its 60 million inhabitants, Italian speakers live all over the world – many of them emigrants and their descendents wanting to maintain their links with the Mother Country. In the U.S.A, for instance, Italian is the 8th most-spoken language.

But what is Italian? The Accademia della Crusca, founded in 1583, sought to standardise Tuscan as a language for educated use throughout the peninsula. Whilst retaining the purity of the classical language as written by eminent Tuscans like Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio, it also had the foresight to recognise that language is constantly changing and to make compromises between the Vulgar Latin of the Romans and what Italians were actually inclined to use.

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Despite being comparatively poor in natural resources, Italy is the world's 8th largest industrial economy, importing raw materials to process and manufacture items such as cars, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical goods and of course anything to do with fashion – just think of those names: Gucci, Pucci, Versace, Armani, Cerruti, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana...

Tourism is another growth industry with about 1 million Italians visiting the U.K. every year, and 4-5 million Britons going to Italy, about 100,000 of whom own property there. To get the real flavour of the country, read or watch the DVD of John Mortimer's 'Summer’s lease'; watch 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Il Postino' – both classics of the 'feel-good' Italian factor.

Even from earliest times, the languages of the peninsula were bound to be different, with Celtic tribes in the north, Venetics in the east, Etruscans in the middle and Greeks in the south! This mix was further stirred by foreign invaders whose presence, between 456 and 1861 offered plenty of opportunity for linguistic diversity. And so it is, that, despite political unification in 1861, in Italy's 20 regions you'll still come across about 30 major dialetti or 'Regional Italian' as it is properly called.

Foreigners brought confusion to the Italian language, but the Italians themselves are noted for exporting to the rest of us many of life's richest pleasures in literature, architecture, painting, music, film, design... which probably accounts for the fact that Italian is the fifth most taught language in the world. Sometimes you even wonder if it will survive as it has managed to incorporate so many 'borrowings' as in il footing, lo sprinting, il dribbling, il computer, il modem, il menu, la babysitter, il weekend... but mind you don't come unstuck on il mister (sports coach) and il tight, (morning coat) for instance! Then you remember the andante, allegro, pianissimo, forte... that you learnt in music and you know it's a fair swap. (For a bit of fun with the language, go to www.reallyrome.com)

If you’d like to know more about travelling to Italy and doing business there, visit: www.fco.gov.uk.