Professional French Translation Services

World Translation Center can provide professional French translation services for English to French and French to English. We can also translate French to and from over 150 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a wide range of African languages, at competitive prices.

Our French specialists will be able 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 best suited for the area of expertise needed. Every linguist works exclusively in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her area of expertise guaranteeing not only quality translation, but proper localization as well. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by another professional translator to assure maximum quality.

We also make available transcription, video recording and subtitling services. In the event that you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native French speakers are available to provide high quality voiceover services.

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

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.

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

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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