We don't just translate, we adapt your text to the context while maintaining the style, tone and content. We adapt to your needs by using the translation strategies that fit the aim of your project.

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“Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”

Anthony Burgess

Why choose SELTIS?

✓ Professionalism

✓ Quality

✓Experience

✓ Accuracy

✓ Innovation

✓ Effectiveness

Only two languages

We offer services exclusively in Spanish and English – the two languages with the largest number of speakers worldwide, greatest global impact and highest room for learning growth. This focus ensures the highest degree of professional engagement between these two languages in the work we do. 

Our services

Translation

We have a wide range of translation services. Our translators have a vast, specialised and technical knowledge adapted to various fields. We issue certified translations by South African experts.

Interpretation

We offer consecutive and simultaneous interpretation services that promote the linguistic and dialectal diversity of Spanish and English in the spoken form. We offer both face-to-face and online services for speeches, interviews, conferences and more.

Transcription

We transcribe material in English and Spanish from various audio-visual sources (podcasts, audio recordings, videos, movies, cards, and images).

Editing and proofreading

We check the coherence and cohesion of your text in addition to attending to spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Our services are tailored to a wide range of topics and needs.

Localization

We adapt the content of your website, application or software to the target user and local marketing culture, taking into account the dialectal variants of Spanish and English.

Transcreation

We translate the content of a language through a creative process that adapts it from English to Spanish and vice versa, while maintaining the intent, style, tone, and context.

Cultural consultancy

We advise our clients with information and advice on topics related to cultural aspects of the target audience, and with important cross-cultural information to achieve better communication with the user.

Language classes

We offer private Spanish and English classes online and face-to-face (only in Johannesburg) for a wide range of purposes: business, foreign affairs, diplomacy, and tourism among others.

South African embassies in Latin America and Spain

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