Japanese

Translation

The work of our professional translators is based on their excellent knowledge, experience, professional specialisation, and speed.  The basis of our work is:

  • Speed – possibility of express translations, translations made overnight, or over the weekend;
  • Professionality – high quality translations, standard, professional, or proofreading;
  • Flexibility – work with many data formats;
  • Reasonable prices – including discounts for large-volume orders and long-term cooperation;
  • Special services – e.g. graphic processing of materials.

Translation we do

We will prepare high quality translations exactly according to your requirements:

  • Standard translations which include contracts, business letters, or fiction books, but also economic and legal documents;
  • Professional translations from all texts (history, psychology, chemistry etc.), for which a special terminology or other materials and information must be  searched for;
  • Certified translations
  • Express translations over 5 standard pages processed within 24 hours, overnight, or over the weekend;
  • Proofreading 
  • Japanese - Czech 800,-kč per NP

    The price is per unit Normopage

  • Japanese - English 800,-kč per NP

    The price is per unit Normopage

  • Japanese - other languages on request

    The price is per unit Normopage

Standard page: The standardized range is determined by legislation, given by Section 3 (2) of Decree No. 507/2020, whereby the standardized length of text is 1800 characters including spaces.

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Order our convenient package of services:

  • court-certified translations from/to the language
  • representative visual aspects of the documents
  • black & white / color printing
  • professional consultation
  • clause of legal force with filing number on the back of the translations (for easy retrieval in state files in case of loss).

Find us in our office

Be it morning or evening, Monday or Saturday, February or August – please contact us at any time with a request to do a translation for you.

We are at your disposal in our office:

JSV International Assistant Service s.r.o.
Chronos Business Centre, 4rd floor

Wenceslas square 808/66
Prague 1, 110 00
Czech republic

About the language

Nearly all Japanese speakers live in Japan – only about 3 million live abroad. The language is a language isolate, unrelated to any other languages except a few on the Ryūkyū Islands, which are usually considered dialects of language. Although they aren’t in the same language family, up to 50% of language vocabulary comes from Chinese. English has also supplied many words, which have to be altered to suit Japanese pronunciation rules: takushī is taxi and uwettosūtsu is wetsuit.

Dictionary

  • Hai. Yes. はい。
  • Iie. No. いいえ。
  • O-negai shimasu. Please. おねがいします。
  • Arigatō. Thank you. ありがとう。
  • Dōitashimashite. You’re welcome. どういたしまして。
  • Sumimasen. Excuse me. すみません。
  • Gomennasai. I am sorry. ごめんなさい。
  • Ohayō gozaimasu. Good morning. おはようございます。

Japanese

is spoken as a native language by about 128 million people, primarily Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. The language  belongs to the Japonic or Japanese-Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.

The language is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with relatively simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated, primarily for tense and voice, but not person. Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. The language has a complex system of honorifics, with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned.

Fun facts of language

  • The language has a colour, mizu, which doesn’t exist in all other languages – in English it might be called sky blue.
  • The language  compliment someone by calling them an egg with eyes – tamago gata no kao – meaning someone with a beautiful, oval-shaped face.
  • Research shows that Japanese is one of the fastest spoken languages in terms of syllables spoken per second.
  • The word ‘futon’ comes from Japanese.