World Translation Center offers professional Swiss French translation services for English to Swiss French and Swiss French to English. We can also translate Swiss French to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a variety of African languages, at competitive rates.
Our Swiss French experts have the ability to provide translation for virtually any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our skilled project managers will match your project with a translator team most appropriate for the area of expertise needed. Each individual linguist works exclusively 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 a second professional translator to assure highest possible quality.
We also render 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 Swiss French speakers are available to provide you with expert voiceover services.
We pride ourselves in furnishing quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.
Swiss 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.
Swiss 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 Swiss 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.