Meet The Team
Who We Are
Our success depends on the strength of our team.
Learn more about the people behind GORR – the people who will be looking after your translations.
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OUR WORK
AND OUR STORIES
Here is a bit more about us and what we have worked on, including some of the challenges faced and accomplishments achieved along the way.
WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THE NAME ”GORR“?
If you have ever wondered what name “GORR” stands for, then wait no longer because we can solve the mystery behind these four letters.
Maybe you thought GORR was derived from a local expression for translation or for any other language service?
Actually, the answer is more personal.
GORR is a mixture of its founders´ initials: Gregor – Olivera – Rosulnik – (née) Radovanović, showing the strong roots of this family business, which since its very beginning has been focused on a successful international future.
Gregor, with his degree in economics and experience in sales, and Olivera, a graduate in Sociology and International Relations combined with a multicultural life spent abroad, merged their talents and courageously took the leap into the mysterious world of translation.
Starting from an improvised balcony office and a laptop as their first “investment”, Gregor and Olivera managed to rapidly win their first major Slovenian clients before then gradually moving on to conquer almost all European markets.
From its origins as a single language provider focused on translations to and from Slovenian to then expanding its offer to a wider group of Balkan languages, GORR is today a multilingual language service provider covering the majority of languages spoken world-wide.
And, guess what?
GORR’s founding duo still does it all with great passion and interest.
Want to know more about GORR’s first translation and localization challenges? Click here.
Or click here to find out more about current GORR´s team.
WHICH LANGUAGES DO WE TRANSLATE?
One of the most frequently asked questions, in both our personal and business lives, is “which languages do YOU translate?”, which actually refers to which languages each of our staff members translates in-house.
While we tend to outsource the majority of our linguistic tasks, entrusting them to experienced and specialized translators, reviewers, interpreters, GORR does boast a team made up of translators and we all speak several languages. In this manner, the quality of content written in the major European languages can be checked internally, while all business relationships turn even smoother when you can address your client or vendor in their native or near-native languages.
So, give us a try and talk to GORR team in languages other than English.
Gregor: native in Slovenian, fluent in the Balkan languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian), fluent in English.
Olivera: native in Serbian, near-native in Slovenian, fluent in the Balkan languages (Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin), English and Czech, understands Slovak.
Darja: native in Slovenian, fluent in English and Italian, understands the Balkan languages (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian).
Nina: native in Slovenian, fluent in English and French, understands the Balkan languages (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian).
Want to know more about the most common and most unusual language pairs translated by GORR? Click here.
LARGE, COMPLEX LEGAL TRANSLATION TO COMPLETE IN THREE DAYS
Soon after GORR´s launch and following some basic sales and marketing work, we had to deal with a project that still stands as one of the most demanding in our history.
In three days, we had to translate 150 pages packed with complex legal content from Slovenian to English.
Luckily enough, the translated content was intended for internal use only, which is why the client confirmed that the usual standards of terminological consistency and native speakers would not apply.
It may seem a miracle but in practice the project involved assembling a team of seven excellent translators, some of them with a legal background, working day and night on these virtual piles of court papers.
The result: a very happy client and an incredible bond with our translators!
What´s more, we had just completed the first of many urgent and complex translation projects and we had coped successfully.
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ANNUAL REPORTS AT THEIR BEST
Annual reports are one of GORR´s specialisms. They usually come all at once, they are sizable and they usually present a mixture of all possible subject matters: business, financial, technical. As a result, they call for a multi-skilled team of translators and reviewers who need to know how to translate, transcreate and deal with figures.
What´s more, because time is usually very pressing, it is not uncommon to have to begin the translation from drafts before the final reports are available.
Just recently we had 125,000 source words of an annual report to translate from Slovenian to English, where we had been receiving 5 to 15 update files a day over the course of ten days.
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OUR LANGUAGE SPECIALTIES
Another fascinating aspect of GORR´s work are the interesting language combinations we can provide. And when you add the complexities of the materials to be translated into the mix, it is always a challenge – but one which we relish.
So, in addition to all “mainstream” European and Balkan language combinations, such as Slovenian to Croatian, English to Slovenian, German to Czech, Serbian to German, English to Bosnian, etc., here are some of the most remarkable projects we have worked and continue to work on.
- A client of ours requested the translation of a pile of legal documentation from Spanish to Icelandic and, believe it or not, we managed it thanks to our Italian partners.
- Another time, we received an order from an American client for the translation and revision of its engineering documentation from Swedish to German.
- We also have a team of technical and software writers handling English to Norwegian content on a daily basis.
- Czech and Slovak to Slovenian come in handy for our Central European retailers and e-commerce clients whose business is spread right across Europe.
Of course, the list could go on but the bottom line is that we could assist you with virtually any language pair, whether it comes from the Balkan group of languages or elsewhere in the world. Just let us know about your specific requirements and we will create a translation team that is perfect for your industry and market.
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DRIVING THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR
The automotive industry is one of the main drivers of imports and exports in Europe and across the globe.
The volume of automotive and related content is therefore always growing, creating a rising demand for quality technical translators and reviewers who can cope with a journey that involves large volumes, very short time frames and no room for compromises on quality.
In 2018, it was a road we traveled many times.
German to Slovenian, German to Polish, German to Croatian, German to Slovak are just some of the language pairs that we translated for a single client which came to us with large automotive projects and, of course, high expectations.
One of these projects meant working on 400,000 source words over the course of ten days. How did we manage it whilst still succeeding in meeting the highest standards of quality and consistency and also using the client´s own online CAT tool?
We have recruited a number of the most skillful automotive translators and we had an external reviewer to bring all of the pieces together. In addition, the in-house team was an additional checkpoint for accuracy and terminological consistency.
The result: probably a number of additional cars or car seats sold in other parts of Europe and, more importantly, a satisfied client who continues to come back for more, as do the translators who worked hard with us to achieve the desired results.
Want to know more about some of GORR´s other language services? Click here.
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Who We Work With
Here are some of our happy clients
