Arabic work comes largely through Middle East infrastructure and equipment programmes. It is the pair where production, not translation, is usually the harder half.
Every language pair has its own failure modes. These are the ones that decide whether an Arabic deliverable is usable.
Layout mirrors: reading order, table direction, arrow and icon orientation, page sequence. A correct Arabic translation dropped into an unmirrored layout is still a defective deliverable.
Mixed Arabic and Latin content — model numbers, units, brand names — follows bidirectional rules that many tools get wrong silently. This needs checking in the rendered file, not in the translation editor.
Arabic letters change shape by position. Font substitution that looks harmless can break shaping, which is why Arabic DTP is verified visually before release.
These are not languages we source ad hoc. Arabic is taught as a degree subject at Chinese universities and has been for decades, and there is continuous movement of students, professionals and long-term residents between China and the countries where it is spoken. That is the pool the work is staffed from, and it is why the rate reflects the Chinese market rather than an agency markup.
Written by linguists living in the Chinese market, so the output reads as though it was written for its reader rather than translated toward them.
The Chinese source is read by people to whom its vocabulary is ordinary; the Arabic is produced or reviewed by a native speaker at L3 and L4.
Every entry below is a project we have published, with the language direction as recorded on the case study itself.
USD per 1,000 source words. Published in full — no quote request needed to see a number.
| L1 · Angel AI Review | L2 · Angel Pro | L3 · Angel Premium | L4 · Angel Global |
|---|---|---|---|
| $26 | $52 | $86 | $117 |
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