Canadian French Translation

World Translation Center provides professional Canadian French translation services for English to Canadian French and Canadian French to English. We can also translate Canadian French to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a number of African languages, at affordable rates.

Our Canadian French professionals have the ability to provide translation for any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our experienced project managers will match your project with a translator team appropriate for the field of expertise required. Each individual linguist works solely in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her field of expertise guaranteeing not only quality translation, but proper localization at the same time. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by an additional professional translator to ensure highest possible quality.

We also provide transcription, video recording and subtitling services. Should you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Canadian French speakers are available to furnish expert voiceover services.

We pride ourselves in delivering high quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.

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Canadian French Information

French is an official language in 29 countries; combining first and second spoken languages, it is spoken in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated. Most of the rest live in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Francophone Africa, Luxembourg, and Monaco.

Canadian French Language Facts

French is a descendant of the Latin language of the Roman Empire and first appeared in writing in 842 AD when it was used in the Strasbourg Oaths. Before then, Latin was the language used for literature throughout Europe. During the 10th and 11th centuries, French appeared in a number of documents and religious writings, but French literature did not become popular until the late 12th / early 13th century. The first great work of French literature was the 'Chanson de Roland' (Song of Roland), which was published in about 1200.

French is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to the European Union, French is the third most spoken second language in the Union, after English and German.

European French and French Canadian use the same rules of grammar, but pronunciation and expressions are quite different. A translator/speaker from Canada should be used if your target audience is Quebec, and a European one if you are marketing France.

Writing Canadian French

French uses the Latin alphabet, plus additional vowels with accents. Punctuation rules are different in French, the most obvious of which is the use of a space before a colon, question and exclamation marks.

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