LanguageWire Reviews 23

A woman communicated with me via Telegram, provided me with a translation file, and then gave me an address and asked for more information. Afterwards, she requested $110 to obtain an ID under the name Jame Jacop. Is he one of your contacts, or is this a scam?

I have worked for Languagewire for many years now, and although there have definitely been some better times, they've been consistent throughout the years with payments and workflow. I look forward to better opportunities in the near future.

Company is providing dynamic offers as well as interesting jobs from my field of expertise. Their pricing is straight and always on time

I've consistently enjoyed working with LanguageWire. Their projects are well-prepared, the communication is good, and payments are always prompt. A professional and collaborative partnership.

I have been working with LanguageWire for several years now and can only praise the prompt willingness of the project managers to react and assist where necessary. I'm also satisfied with the regular monthly payments. No reason to complain!

Languagewire team is very professional and I like working on Smart Editor platform. I wish to continue our collaboration.
Wish you all the best.

In my long-time partnership with LanguageWire, I have been greatly improving my linguistic skills on a daily basis, while experiencing the best collaboration for providing continued high-quality translation services.

LanguageWire is the perfect Partner, it always guarantees support, professionalism, punctuality, development!

Professional and helpful managers, interesting projects, very good communication and payment always on time.

Excellent agency to work with
LanguageWire is an excellent agency to work with. They have nice projects, very good rates, they pay always on time and the communication is very fluent. I am more than happy with them!

What can I add that has not already been mentioned in the previous comments? In no particular order:
- Disrespectful company (that only deserves direspectful comments) for their providers.
- No care or interest in their freelance taskforce.
- Very arrogant people and honestly glad not to work for them anymore.
- Covid discount and other incredible price cuts drive the industry in the wrong direction.
- Their MT is poor and their new contract win with W I P O is a mistake.

I have worked with them for a long time and was dismissed on the spot, very nice practice!

They bought a company I've worked for for more than 20 years and I agree with the bad comments. No respect for providers, decreases prices unilaterally to the point where they are not acceptable anymore. Everything is automatised, there is no human contact anymore. Sends a lot of conditions to accept and videos to follow for their profit but no work anymore as they probably force representatives to choose the lowest price, whatever the quality. Their "vendor relations" messages are a shame: they only speak about themselves and their profit, they obviously do not care at all about their providers.

After working with them, i realized that i do the biggest mistake in my life,, It took 4 days to complete my the Novel in to Urdu but they wanted that i have to pay linking fees to connect my Bank Account with payment method, means they are trying to make me again fool because that are so many options like Payoneer, Bank Transfer and Western Union..

The company is inadequate and is being targeted by scammers on various platforms. To improve security, efficiency, and overall stability, it should be shut down. Upwork, Telegram, and Check Alert for the company are recommended for language wire official site for translators.

As a professional translator with 30+ years experience of the industry and having worked on projects with Languagewire for several years, but no longer, I agree entirely with the negative reviews posted here. And just ignore the corporate responses posted here that other translators on ProZ etc. are astoundingly happy to work for Languagewire. All the serious and experienced translators shun companies like this. It is a shame because it used to be a good client until the venture capitalists took over and grabbing as much of the cake to the detriment of the people who actually do the work became their only priority

Have been working for them over 10 years and the sharp decline in their practices towards freelancers (who actually do the job they are selling to clients) is palpable. In practice you simply have to accept the price project managers offer, which means a minimum of 30% reduction of rates that were valid 10+ years ago (see the review below about pricing and what is left of it after taxes. Yes, it is all true).
Technically you do have an opportunity to quote for a higher price on their platform, but in practice the higher quotes simply do not go through. Their MT does not work well at all for other than Indo-European language pairs and the tags are a huge mess meaning extra work, but again there is no room for price negotiations (to be honest they actually do reply to your emails at vendor management after a few emails and weeks or months), and you simply get the price they are offering, or you are left without work. In my experience the reviews below are true.

As a customer i am disappointed - it´s expensive and not complete.

I did some jobs for them and it was a disappointing experience over all which ended with non-payment.

I think the previous reviewer´s assessment is on point and really speaks volumes about how this company has degenerated to a cash cow for the new owners. We (i.e. freelance translators) had to accept a 10% discount during Covid. There was never any "choice" for this: accept or get cut off. I know of many businesses that had to do the same - but they reimbursed their employees after things normalized again. Not Languagewire, they have been acquired by some risk capitalist group that are only looking to make a quick buck and keep their shareholders happy. So yeah, I am looking elsewhere for work. Not a big problem, but it is a shame to see what could have been a great company go down the drain and alienate their resources, that is freelancers like me.

At Languagewire they expect translators to be available at any time and willing to work for anything through a tendering system that forces language professionals to provide offers until the cheapest one is reached. The system means only translators living in inexpensive countries or those that do not have families to support or are very young and therefore eager to have some work experience will end up doing the job. To give you an idea, for a 1000 word highly technical document for a well known brand that would take you at least half a day to complete they pay in 2022 around €40 (gross) for an English into French translation. Therefore paying around €10/hour which after taxes in most European countries becomes around €6.
12 years ago the figure was 3 times that amount.

At Languagewire they do not value seniority nor how long you have been working for them or how much effort you have put to help them grow, they just care about money.

Their Machine Translation tool produces bad quality outcome and processeses tags terribly, still they insist on applying a 30% reduction on rates because it suppousedly "helps". Interestingly, the MT is based on a corpus built upon the work of the translators who are refused any rights over it and were never told their work was going to be used against them. I wonder how many of their clients are aware of this and how many of those clients know that Languagewire does not pay translators even the minimum legal wage in most countries.

Project and Account managers do not seem to care about quality, they just want the job done since they are pressed for quick turn arounds and assign it to the cheapest freelancer, mainly because they earn a comission depending on how cheap they manage to get a job done.

The new Human Resources management team are extremely young and inexperienced and do not seem to care about freelance translators. When you reach them, you get all sort of excuses (and sometimes bad manners) and they invite you to work somewhere else when you rise your concerns or ask to be paid the minimum legal wage.

Invoices feature a London address, although the bulk of the work is carried out and handled out of Denmark and Spain. I wonder whether they use that to pay less taxes. After all, they are owned by an investment fund.