French translations

We offer professional translation services for English to French and for French to English language pairs.

The French language

  • French is one of the five most commonly spoken languages in the world.
  • Only English trumps French as the most taught language.
  • France is the third-largest internet economy in Europe, with steady growth forecast. Canada has one of the highest levels of internet use in the world.
  • France is one of the official languages of the European Union.
  • French is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
  • French language variants include Canadian French, Swiss French and Belgian French.

French translators

We select the best fit of French translator for each job: that means a translator who is a native speaker of the particular strain of the French language required; and a translator who has good experience in the subject matter of the translation.

For example, if you needed a financial document translated for a Swish bank, we would only use a Swiss French translator with up to date financial experience. Aplomb Translations aims never to compromise on the quality of a translation. And that quality depends on the skill and experience of the translator.

French one of the world’s great languages

French is one of the world’s great languages, rivaled only by English as the language of international society and diplomacy.

Besides being spoken in France, it is one of the official languages of Belgium, of Switzerland, and of Canada; it is the official language of Haiti, of more than 15 African countries, and of various French dependencies such as St. Pierre and Miquelon, Guadaloupe and Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and New Caledonia and Tahiti. In addition, French is the unofficial second language of a number of countries, including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, and Syria.

All told, it is the mother tongue of about 75 million people, with millions more familiar with it, to some degree, as a second language.

In the 18th and 19th centuries French was pre-eminent as an international language, though it has been eclipsed by English in the 20th and 21st.