Professional Kosraean Translation Services

Our Kosraean health unit, staffed by native Kusaie speakers, prepares the awareness material issued by the State health department and its visiting nursing crews. Immunization notices and vector-control advisories go out in plain Kusaie for island families with little clinical schooling. The department fixes the language level at intake. A second linguist checks the finished leaflet against that level.

Counseling material asks for gentler wording than a public bulletin. Our linguists adapt mental health leaflets into Kosraean and drop the clinical jargon, because few Kusaie-speaking counselors practice in Honolulu. Our unit prints a release date on the leaflet. Hawaii aides then match it against the stock in the Tofol clinic.

A measles or dengue alert comes to the health department in English. Our team turns the crisis messaging into Kosraean within hours, ready for radio broadcast and for the clinic wall. Arkansas case workers hand the finished bulletin to Kosraean families in Springdale. The wording follows the island broadcast word for word.

Donor-funded programs add a reporting stage behind the printed handout. Our office back-translates the finished Kosraean into English for the grant auditors, a routine obligation across the public medical budget. Once a reviewer logs a revision against the funded version, the acquittal figures reconcile to the cent. The auditors file the back-translation with the original invoice.

To ship a citrus consignment off Kosrae, an exporter must satisfy the import conditions of the destination market and the quarantine rules of the Federated States of Micronesia. Our linguists translate the phytosanitary certificate into the language of the buyer and leave the Latin binomials and treatment codes untouched. Quarantine officers in Tofol countersign the Kusaie version. The exporter files the pair with the airline.

Tangerine and banana growers ship to a narrow seasonal window. We localize the harvest calendars and dispatch schedules issued by the State agriculture office. The dates remain legible for buyers in Tokyo and for the cooperatives coordinating shipments at home. A grading deadline missed by two days can strand a pallet on the apron at Kosrae International Airport.

Salt spray and drought have altered the planting mix on the slopes above Tofol. Guidance notes on climate-resilient agriculture go from English drafts into Kosraean for the extension officers advising upland plots. Salt-tolerant taro and drought-hardy cultivars retain their scientific names in the Kusaie version. Field staff take the Kusaie sheet. The donor files the English draft.

Processing adds a second document set once the crop leaves the field. Our team prepares the labeling and food-safety records for small canneries and copra dryers, then repeats the figures for the regional buyers tracking Kosrae produce out of Suva. Weight and grade appear in identical form down two language columns. A change to the Kusaie column triggers a fresh review of the English.

Our intake clerk logs and time-stamps an assignment on arrival. The file then enters a controlled pipeline closed to outside view. Export pricing and unreleased policy drafts remain in encrypted storage, opened only by the linguists named on the job sheet. Kosrae State offices receive that list of names on request.

Government offices rarely send a clean file format. Our engineers pull Kosraean strings out of scanned permits and locked spreadsheets, then rebuild the structured documentation for the logistics offices in Brisbane. Pagination in the rebuilt file follows the original line for line. Tables retain their original column order. The engineers return the source file with the delivery.

Confidential material asks for a signed undertaking. A Non-Disclosure Agreement governs the engagement. Our office puts the clause set itself into Kosraean for the officials reviewing terms in Papeʻete. Those officials sign the Kusaie text and the English text on the day of instruction. Our office stores the executed pair in the project file.

Public money brings an audit trail with it. Our coordinators log the version number and the reviewer name against the data-protection rules adopted by FSM departments. An outside assessor can then trace a file through the whole pipeline. The log remains with the project for the length of the grant. Our coordinators release it to the funding department on request.

Because Kosrae conducts public business in Kusaie and English together, the State government commissions parallel versions of its core records. Our linguists prepare the official notices and gazette entries issued from Tofol. The Kusaie column states an obligation in the terms of the English column. Neither version softens the operative verb. A State attorney signs off on the pair.

Statute material brings its own hazards for the careless drafter. We translate the bills and committee minutes of the State Legislature for the record-keepers in Tofol and for diaspora citizens following the session from Majuro. A mistranslated subsection can disqualify a claimant entitled under the English wording. Our reviewers check a provision against the enacted text, line by line.

Paperwork bound for a foreign registry needs more than fluency. Our notarized bundles pair the Kosraean source with a sworn translation lodged for apostille, a format accepted by the consular staff at the FSM mission in Palikir. The apostille seal follows the document into the receiving registry abroad. Our office tracks the bundle until that registry confirms the filing.

Public-sector reform sends a stream of circulars down from the national level. Our office localizes the administrative directives circulating between national and State staff, then formats them for print distribution and for the government intranet. Field officers in Malem and headquarters staff in Tofol receive the matching directive inside the week. The intranet version reproduces the circular number of the national original.

Across the exclusive economic zone of the Federated States of Micronesia, tuna licensing generates a continuous paper flow. Our linguists handle the access agreements and vessel-day records traded under the regional licensing scheme. Catch terms appear in full in the Kosraean text and in the English text. A loosely worded clause on transshipment can cost the national treasury a full season of fees.

Observers at sea file dense technical reports between trips. We convert the WCPFC trip records and transshipment logs into plain Kosraean for crews returning to port and for the licensing officers in Tarawa. Gear codes and tonnage figures come through the conversion unaltered. A reviewer with sea time on those grounds checks the gear vocabulary.

Our team prepares the vessel-inspection notices and infringement findings tied to illegal fishing cases. A tribunal in Hagåtña may open the file years after the boarding. The notice therefore fixes the boarding coordinates and the hour of inspection in figures. Our reviewers check the vessel name against the regional vessel list. Kosrae enforcement officers hold the Kusaie version at the dock.

Crew welfare has become its own reporting line on licensed vessels. Our coordinators localize the labor-at-sea notices and repatriation forms issued to Kosraean seafarers. Rights and wage rates appear in plain shipboard Kusaie. A deckhand signing for a three-month voyage can price the contract at the dock. The vessel agent countersigns the Kusaie version.

The villages of Kosrae occupy a narrow shelf barely above the reef line. The State emergency office plans yearly for storm surge and rising seas. Our linguists prepare its preparedness guides and evacuation maps in Kosraean for families with seconds to respond. The maps name the assembly point in Kusaie and in English.

Once the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a bulletin, our team turns the early-warning text into Kosraean for immediate broadcast. Responders advising the outer villages from Port Vila receive the Kusaie text on the emergency circuit within minutes. Our coordinators keep two Kusaie linguists on call through the storm season. The emergency office lists their night numbers.

The State treats village relocation as active policy on the low ground at Malem. Our office localizes the planned-relocation consultations for the affected villages, alongside the funding notes prepared for review in Suva. A family studies the Kusaie proposal at home and signs later, or declines. The consultation record lists the families present and the questions raised.

Recovery crews go out once the wind drops. Our team translates the psychological first-aid scripts and the damage surveys taken door to door. The questions remain gentle for families counting losses, because a clumsy phrase can reopen grief in the middle of an interview. Our reviewers test the wording with the State emergency office at the start of the season.

It is the Compact of Free Association that lets Kosraean citizens live and take paid posts in the United States. Our linguists talk outbound islanders through the Compact provisions in Kusaie. A departure session at the State office in Tofol goes through entry rights and tax status. The islander leaves with those provisions in writing.

Arrival brings a fresh pile of paperwork in an unfamiliar bureaucracy. We prepare the school enrollment and benefits forms for Kosraean families making a home in Springdale, an Arkansas town with a large Micronesian poultry workforce. The Kusaie version goes on the left of the sheet and the county-office English on the right. County clerks accept the bilingual sheet at the counter.

Remittances go home through licensed transfer operators today. Our team localizes the orientation and remittance guides for new arrivals joining the Micronesian communities of the Pacific coast. The guide prints the transfer fee and the exchange rate as figures for a first-time sender. Our reviewers refresh those figures when an operator publishes new rates.

Seafarers leave the island by a separate path. Our coordinators translate the contract and crew-mobility papers for a Kosraean mariner shipping out through Seattle. Wage rates and leave entitlements appear as figures and dates. The mariner signs the Kusaie text at the agent’s office and keeps a duplicate. The agent files the English original with the vessel owner.

Kosrae teaches its children in Kusaie and English from the first grade onward. Our linguists prepare the grade-level primers and teacher guides commissioned by the State school system. The vocabulary of a second-grade primer and the vocabulary of a senior civics title come from separate word lists. Our reviewers level a text against the grade band printed on the title page.

Vernacular schooling needs a fixed written form. Kosraean gained a standard spelling system in 1977. Our team supports the revitalization effort behind Kusaie literacy and fixes spelling and term choices for the curriculum panel in Tofol. A word printed three ways across three textbooks costs a class a term of instruction. The panel signs off on the spelling list at the start of the school year.

The syllabus draws on elders as heavily as on printed pages. We localize the cultural education modules on reef craft and traditional wayfinding, matched to the curriculum reviewed by Pacific educators in Auckland. A native Kusaie ear checks the transcript of an oral lesson against the recording. The module ships with the audio file attached.

Higher study takes Kosraean students well past the reef. Our coordinators translate the transcripts and qualification papers for a student enrolling at overseas institutions. A sworn translation goes to the receiving registrar with the Kosraean original attached. The student retains a scanned set for later applications.

There is rarely a public project on Kosrae without an international funder attached to it. Our linguists prepare the tender notices and bid documents circulated by the State for contractors weighing the job from overseas. A vague specification produces a dispute at the first variation order. Our reviewers check the technical annex against the English scope.

Evaluation panels score in two languages at once. We localize the procurement records and scoring sheets for the officers in Tofol and for the auditors checking value-for-money from Brisbane. The weightings correspond down the Kusaie sheet and the English sheet. A losing bidder finds the criteria in the language of the bid documents. Our office archives the scored sheets with the tender file.

Grant money imposes reporting clauses binding on the recipient. Our team returns the Kosraean narrative reports to the donor’s language and checks them against the trade and customs records filed for buyers in Tokyo. The narrative and the ledger figures then agree on the reporting form. A discrepancy goes back to the program officer in Tofol.

Closeout has its own discipline. Our coordinators assemble the final acquittals and receipt logs in Kosraean and in the funder’s language, formatted for an inspector scanning the two columns side by side. Receipt numbers appear in the corresponding rows of the two files. The funder signs the closeout in Tofol. Our office archives the assembled set for the audit period.

Getting Kosraean content into usable shape is half the job. Our engineers extract text from PDFs and locked design files, then rebuild the layout around the Kusaie text. The artwork stays in its original position on the page. Line breaks follow Kusaie syllable structure rather than the English original.

Software brings its own constraints. We localize the interface strings and help screens for the FSM e-government rollout, tested against the builds maintained in Seattle. Because Kusaie labels are commonly longer than their English source, a truncated menu label or a clipped button shows up in that test round. Our engineers shorten the string and send it back for a second build.

Quality control is a separate stage between draft and delivery. A second Kusaie linguist checks the tested string and the printed proof, then returns the file marked up for the release team in Papeʻete. The markup names the string identifier and the proposed fix. The first linguist answers the marks in writing.

Delivery formats follow the client specification. Our office ships the finished Kosraean as editable source and as print-ready output. File naming follows the convention given at intake. A receiving officer in Tofol opens the requested file type without a conversion step. We archive the source files for the length of the contract.

Radio delivers much of the news on Kosrae. Our voice recording studio casts native Kusaie talent for the public broadcasts and call-in shows commissioned by State offices. The director auditions speakers from Lelu and Malem for a lead narration, since listeners pick up an unfamiliar accent inside a sentence. Sessions follow the station’s broadcast specification.

Health and farming campaigns get further once voiced aloud. We record the extension spots and clinic announcements aired across the State, matched to scripts already approved by the commissioning office in Honolulu. The recording follows the approved text down to the closing caution line. A script change after approval sends the session back to the studio.

Some projects ask for a familiar delivery from the opening second. Our directors coach Kusaie speakers toward the lilt of formal address or of village storytelling, according to the broadcast segment in hand. An elder advisory and a youth jingle take separate voice casts. The commissioning office hears a sample take from two speakers.

Finished audio leaves the studio ready to air. Our team supplies the broadcast masters and the timed subtitle files together, cut to the durations set by the station. The subtitle timing follows the Kusaie phrasing in the master. A program director in Tofol loads the file straight into the schedule. Our studio stores the session takes for a later re-cut.

The basalt walls of Lelu and the reef off Utwe draw a modest number of divers and heritage visitors. Our linguists prepare the visitor guidance and site placards for guests arriving at Kosrae International Airport. A placard prints the Kusaie name first and the English gloss under it. The Historic Preservation Office approves the Kusaie spelling.

Dive operators keep to a safety script. We localize the guidance sheets and liability waivers used on the wall dives off Walung for guests booking from San Diego and the other source markets. Depth limits and ascent rates appear as figures in the guest’s language. A guest who misjudges a depth limit ends the day’s diving for the boat.

Kosrae markets its guesthouses in the home languages of its visitors. Our team translates the destination text and operator listings aimed at a source market, matched to the trade-show folders taken to wholesalers in Sydney. The Japanese and Australian versions state the room counts and the transfer times of the English original. A wholesaler quotes from the translated sheet at the counter.

Heritage interpretation answers to the community first. Our coordinators prepare the consent forms and benefit notes for the title-holding families of Lelu, in plain Kusaie. A family approves the photograph and the text of a placard on its own ground. The signed consent goes into the trail file with the placard proof. The village retains a Kusaie duplicate.