Life at Jonckers - WordsOnline
For over 25 years Jonckers has been an innovator
in fast, cost effective translations,
but what’s it like to work here?
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We’d like to give you a better insight into our working lives. From blog posts describing working with us, to introducing you to our favorite places to visit near the offices,
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Our student life at Jonckers and our new CEO.
Global Gaming – The Importance of Gaming Localization and Translation Today
Games being a globalized industry means that the game itself now has to be global – and that requires localization services. Gaming localization and translation is a key part of that. It’s not just a case of making sure that the menus and the instructions are in a local language anymore – it is about localizing the whole game in concepts that make sense to the host audience. That includes subtitling or, for big-budget titles, dubbing and voice-overs and a whole new audio production assignment. It includes translating game instructions and ideas in ways that users will respond to – a meeting of the mid-point between translation and game design. Localization also includes marketing for the game as well, ensuring it is brought in front of the audience in a way that is relevant to them. These are all part of what Jonckers can provide for gaming localization services.
Adobe
Adobe’s Global Program Managers approached Jonckers to see how they could work together to deliver a localized experience for their customers. The requirements were to continuously and cost-effectively deliver an ambitiously high volume of videos with subtitles and voiceovers.
Download the case study to discover how Jonckers were able to deliver over 8,000 localized videos (with voiceovers), within 18 months.
Day in the life of a Language Analyst at JONCKERS
Language Analysts, Lucia from Žilina, Slovakia. explains the role of a language analyst at JONCKERS. “There are 6 of us, each dedicated to several accounts, providing assistance to production teams, contributing to language quality and process, being the main point of contact for any quality issues, acting as linguistic contact between JONCKERS and respective clients and much more.”
Chongquing, one of the most dramatic office locations
Ahoy Brno!
Welcome to our office in Brno, Czech Republic.
Established in 2002 the offices has 28 employees and 21 students, and most importantly, Hugo the office dog.
The sunrises in Brno are beautiful, and the city, the country’s second-biggest, is an architectural gem. The city also houses the body of a dragon that was once said to terrorize the city! In reality, it’s a crocodile that had supposedly managed to find its way into the city’s rivers and began snacking on the city’s livestock. As you can tell, we decided it’s safer to have a pet that’s treated as our office dog, rather than inviting a crocodile.
Discover our offices in Žilina, Slovakia
Our Zilina office in Slovakia.
The entrance to our offices in Slovakia
Welcome to our Manchester office!
Our office here is a blend of ultra-modern glass walkways and light-rich atriums in city’s Ancoats area – formerly an industrial hub with canals and factories, now regenerating into a creative centre, with restaurants, bars and pubs aplenty (it’s been voted the 27th coolest neighbourhood to live in in the world by Time Out magazine).
Near the heart of the city, it’s near a mixture of restaurants and bars such as: Vietshak where you can get a British combo of chips/fries with roasted duck and sticky sauce!
You might catch us after work at seven brothers pub next door, with live music downstairs, great nachos and good place to go to wind down after work. If you fancy authentic pizza, also on the same square there’s Rudy’s.
A few fun facts about the city:
– A worker bee has been the symbol of Manchester for over 150 years, representing the its hard work ethic and the city as a hive of activity.
– Manchester was the workplace of legendary mathematician Alan Turing, the father of modern computing
– Manchester has been the birthplace of a huge chunk of British music history – from Oasis to Joy Division, Happy Mondays to The Stone Roses.
Finally, we cannot forget to mention that it is home to two great football clubs, Manchester City and Manchester United. With the second one having an estimated club fan base of around 659 million fans worldwide. That makes it every 10th person living in the world a fan of this club.
A Day In The Life Of A Localization Project Manager As we continue our day in the life of series, we look at what’s involved with being a Localization Project Manager. Our last blog post covered what it’s like …
A Day in the Life of a Translator We thought we’d give you the opportunity to meet Cecilia Etchegoyen who is one of the English/Spanish translators that we work with here at Jonckers. Name: Cecilia Etchegoyen Native Language: English/Spanish …
USA
4100 194th Street SW
Lynnwood
WA 98036
USA
3190 Clearview Way
San Mateo
CA 94402
UK
Jactin House, 24 Hood Street
Ancoats
Manchester M4 6WX
Belgium
Rue du Bosquet 7
1348 Louvain-La-Neuve
Czech Republic
Kralovopolska 3052/139
61200 Brno
Slovakia
Namestie Andreja Hlinku 1
010 01 Žilina
China
Room 1,no. 29
Chongqing Fortune Financial Center
Fortune Avenue, Yubei District, Chongqing
Germany
Westfalendamm 98
44141 Dortmund
Vietnam
8th Floor
Machinco Building
444 Hoang Hoa Tham St
Hanoi City
Japan
Kinga Bldg.
3F 1-1-25
Ougicho Naka-ku
Yokohama
Kanagawa 231-0027
