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Lingtastic is translation on the cheap. We’ve all been there before—stuck in a foreign country trying to do the simplest task, whether it be getting the waiter to bring you the bill, transferring money from your bank, attempting to find a cab that’ll take you back to the hostel, and the list goes on. Or maybe you’ve procrastinated a little too long on that Spanish Cinema paper, and Babelfish isn’t exactly cutting it. Most of the services out there charge astronomical rates for tiny lines of text. An email can cost upwards of $20 or more. Chas, the creator of Lingtastic wanted to change this. Lingtastic guarantees that the customer will never be grossly overcharged. The pay rate is on scale with what the translator is paid. Sign up for an account and access translators for emails, text messages or locate an interpreter. Simply add credit to your account to get some translations. Lingtastic works with a normal phone line, Skype and GoogleTalk.
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“Lingtastic provides professional interpreters at a much lower cost than traditional services. Most services will charge you over $1.50 a minute! That’s $90 per hour. Even if you are a business that can quickly add up to a costly way to communicate. We have interpreters of all classes on Lingtastic. From professional interpreters with years of experience to bilingual people who have never really worked as a interpreter but are fully conversant with both languages. You just select the quality you require and we find you the cheapest available with your requirements. You may pay as little as $8 an hour or as much as $30 an hour but there is no way its going to cost you $90 an hour”
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Lingtastic is a great way to get cheap translations when you’re in a bind. The rates are hard to beat and it’s easy to use. The pay scale is fair and takes into account the needs of the translator and not just the company.
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Does Lingtastic really work? If you’re stuck in a foreign country and need translations, can you rely on Lingtastic for help? What about for higher level translations? Do they save you money, or are they the same as what the competition is offering?
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written by Jose 5 Months 3 Days ago | |
| I think This is a great service at an incredible price level! good luck guys!! | ||
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written by Sniffle 5 Months 9 Days ago | |
| The pay is not as high as regular interpreters get, but a lot better than at McDonalds. They are talking about rates per minute here and not per hour. | ||
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written by Roxanne 5 Months 11 Days ago | |
| Wow! This is great. I can think of a million ways to use this service. Now that you make it cheap. | ||
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written by Chidchanok 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| Lingtastic is really cool, especially for people who travels alot. I think it's a really great idea. Just keep up the good work!!! | ||
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written by Karla33 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| Seeing it from the interpreting side, it opens up new jobs and opportunities to help people with out having to travel so much. The fact that the interpreter gets a fair amount of the payment makes us want to be a part of this great endeavor. | ||
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written by Mikw 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| about time someone made interpreting affordable! | ||
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written by Sara06140 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| I travel a lot and struggle with documentation required in each country, Lingtastic looks like the right service for me. Good luck to you. | ||
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written by JOSE 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| GOD BLESS YOU LINGTASTIC. | ||
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written by JOSE 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| GOD BLESS YOU LINGTASTIC. | ||
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written by laura 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| sounds interesting. are you considering offering clients a free trial test? | ||
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written by andy 5 Months 12 Days ago | |
| Wish I had this when I first moved to Argentina..... would have been a great help and cheap. | ||
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written by Matt 5 Months 13 Days ago | |
| I travel a lot and I always find myself in situations were simple task turn out very complex. It would be great to have an interpreter at an affordable at my cell phone. Good Luck | ||
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written by Chas 5 Months 13 Days ago | |
| Actually the quality of interpreters is BETTER than you would get through most comercial services. THe POINT of the service is the interpreters set the rates and you do not pay a lot of money to the middle man. | ||
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written by Peter Andrews 5 Months 13 Days ago | |
| I live in Panama and would have killed for this idea to have been live when I went through my drive from the US to Panama and subsequently my residency. I think there is a desperate need for a service like this.Think of all the applications like talking to a doctor in an emergency in a foreign country, having a translator available on your cell phone when you get pulled over by a traffic officer in Germany.I hope to see this idea reach for the sky. Good luck!!!Peter | ||
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written by Alex 6 Months 4 Days ago | |
| Would you expect even an average level of quality when your interpreter is paid less than unqualified worker? People at McDonalds get paid more. Good luck! | ||
