Sled Dog Media

Freelance Malay and Indonesian translation services are provided by Stefanie Chan.


Stefanie has over 20 years of experience living in Malaysia and has attained professional-level language fluency in English and Indonesian and native-level fluency in Malay.
This experience is backed up with formal education in grammar, composition, and literature in Malay from Malaysia and in English from the United States.

Stefanie Chan's current rates are as follows:


Media Complexity Linguist Rate1 Interpreter Rate2 Transcription Rate3 Translator Rate4 Editor Rate5
Legal, Technical, and Scientific $45.00 USD / hour $40.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $0.15 USD / word $0.15 USD / word
Literary and Prose $35.00 USD / hour $30.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $0.15 USD / word $0.15 USD / word
Instructions $25.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $0.10 USD / word $0.10 USD / word
Common Media $25.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $20.00 USD / hour $0.10 USD / word $0.10 USD / word


Minimum charge of $20.00 USD.

Add an additional $0.05 USD per word for rush translations that require more than 2,000 words per day or with less than 8 hours notice.

1 Linguists services include detailed information on grammar, word usage, and language history.

2 Interpreter services include listening to a speaker in one language and relating that utterance to an audience in a different language.

3 Transcription services include converting handwriting into typed text in the same or different language.

4 Translator services include making a new version of a book, document, web site, etc., in a different language.

5 Editor services include proof-reading and correcting a previously completed work in a different language.