French translation
Language world offers translations from French into English and from English into French. Our professional French translators work in many kinds of texts and subjects, such as medical, business, legal, automation and many others.
We translate in two steps: the first of them being the translation of the text into or from French and the second of them the checking of the writing.
While translating, the French native, professional, translator works only into his own mother tongue and always the kind of texts in which he has a high expertise. Thanks to translation technologies, such as translation memories, lexica management tools and many others, used in the French translation work, we can guarantee the best product.
The proofreading and checking step will ensure a total fluency and best linguistic perfection of the finished French work. Language world always checks and proofreads all translation works from and into the French language by a native translator.
Of course, we take care of anything around the publishing of writings and texts and can provide you with desktop publishing services for your French translations.
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Information about the French language
The legal status of French outside of France
Along with Italian, German and Romansh, French is an official language of Switzerland. French is spoken in the part of Switzerland known as Romandie. 20%of Swiss people are native French.
In Belgium, French is the official language of the Walloon Region (except the East Cantons, in which German is spoken) and one of the two official languages —along with Dutch— of the Brussels-Capital Region where it is spoken by the majority of the population, be it frequently not as primary language. Conversely Dutch dominates among the city's largely non-resident workforce. French and German are not official languages nor recognised minority languages in the Flemish Region, although along borders with the Walloon and Brussels-Capital regions, there a dozen of municipalities with language facilities for French-speakers. a mirroring situation exists for the Walloon Region with respect to Dutch and German. In total, native French-speakers make up about 40% of the country's population, the remaining 60% speak Dutch, the latter of which 59% speak French as a second language. Consequently, French is known by an estimated 75% of all Belgians, either as a mother tongue, as second, or as third language.
In Luxembourg, along with German and Luxembourgish, French is one of the three official languages in Luxembourg,
Although Monacos national language is Monégasque, French is the only official language, and French nationals make up some 47% of the population.
In Italy French is also an official language, along with Italian, in the province of Aosta Valley, Italy. Additionally, a number of Franco-Provençal dialects are spoken in this province, although they do not have official recognition.
At the Channel Islands, although Jersey and Guernsey, the two bailiwicks collectively referred to as the Channel Islands, are different entities, both use French to some degree, mainly in an administrative capacity. In Jersey, Jersey Legal French is the standardized variety used.
French as a non-official language in Europe
Although Catalan is the only official language of Andorra, French nationals make up 7% of the population. Consequently, French has some presence there.
In Canada about 7 million Canadians have French as first language, of whom 6 million live in Quebec. In Canada, French is one of two official languages (English is the other one). Several provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms deal with Canadians' right to access services in both languages, including the right to a publicly funded education in the minority language of each province, where numbers warrant in a given locality. By law, the federal government have to operate and provide services in both French and English. Proceedings of the Parliament of Canada be required to be translated into both these languages, and most products that are sold in Canada must have bilingual labels in French and English.
Generally, about 13% of Canadians can speak only French, while 18% have knowledge of both French and English. In contrast, over 80% of the population of Quebec speaks French natively, and 95% can speak it. Since 1974, French has been the exclusive official language of Quebec. With the Charter of the French Language the legal status of French was further strengthened in 1977. This Charter guarantees that everyone has a right to have the health and social services, the civil administration, corporations and enterprises in Quebec communicate with him in French. Although the Charter mandates that certain provincial government services, such as those relating to education and health, be offered to the English minority in its language, where numbers warrant, its primary purpose is to cement the role of French as the first language used in the everyday language.
The provision of the Charter that has arguably had the most important impact mandates French-language education unless a child's parents or brothers have received the majority of their own primary education in English in Canada, with minor exceptions. This measure has reversed a historical trend whereby many immigrant children would attend English schools. Consequently, the Charter has deeply contributed to the "visage français" (French face) of Montreal, in spite of its growing immigrant population. However, over the years, other provisions of the Charter have been ruled unconstitutional, including those mandating commercial signs, court proceedings, and debates in the legislature were written or spoke only in French. None of these provisions are still in effect today, but some of them continued to be on the books for a time, even after have been ruled as unconstitutional by.
The Charter was rewritten in 1993 to allow signage in other languages, so long as French was markedly "predominant." Another of the sections of the Charter guarantees every person the right to work in French, meaning the right to speak to one's superiors and workmates in French. As well as this, it guarantees the right not to be required to speak another language as a condition of hiring, unless this is necessary for the post, such as by reason of extensive interaction with people located outside the province or similar reasons. This section has not been as effective as had in the beginning been hoped, and has faded somewhat from public consciousness. As of 2006, around 65% of the workforce of Montreal mostly used French in the workplace.
New Brunswick, which is officially bilingual, is the only other province that recognizes French as an official language. Outside of Quebec, the highest number of French speakers in Canada, 485,000, excluding those who claim multiple mother tongues, live in Ontario, whereas New Brunswick, which is the place for the vast majority of Acadians, has the highest percentage of Francophones after Quebec, 33%, or 237,000. In Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Manitoba, French does not have full official status, although the provincial governments do provide some services in French in all communities where significant numbers of Francophones live. French is recognized as an official language as well in Canada's three northern territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut).
From province to province, the quality and level of the French language service varies considerably, although all provinces make some effort to accommodate the needs of their Francophone citizens. According to Ontario French Language Services Act, 1986, French languages services must be provided in the places where the Francophone population is more than 10% of the total population, as well as communities with Francophone populations exceeding 5,000, and certain other designated areas; this affects mostly to the north and east of the province, as well as to other larger centres such as Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga, London, Kitchener, St. Catharines, Greater Sudbury and Windsor. However, these cities are not given the status of “official bilingualism”, as that designation carries with it implications which go beyond the provision of services in both languages. According to the City of Ottawa's language policy (by-law 2001-170) employees can work in their official language of choice and be supervised in the language of choice; an organization called Canadians for Language Fairness is the responsible of this policy.
Canada is officially member state in the Francophonie, while the provinces of Québec and New Brunswick are recognized as participating governments. Ontario wants to become a full member on its own.
We can find French speakers all over the United States. Counties in yellow are those where 6-12% of the population speak French at home; brown, 12-18%; red, over 18%. French-based creole languages are not included.
French is the official language of Haiti, but it is mostly spoken by the upper class and well-educated. However, Haitian Creole (a French-based creole language) is more widely spoken as a mother tongue.
The French language does not have official recognition in the United States, but this language is the third or fourth most-spoken one, after English, Spanish, and probably Chinese (if we consider Chinese languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese together), and the second most-spoken in the states of Louisiana, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. In Louisiana does exist a unique dialect, Cajun French.
Africa
In Africa lives a majority of the world's population of Francophones. Nevertheless, most Africans do not speak French as their mother tongue (although the number of native French speakers on the continent seems to be increasing) but tens of millions can speak it as a second language. It is not possible to consider a single form of African French, but rather of diverse forms of African French which have developed due to the contact with many indigenous African languages. In the territories of the Indian Ocean, French is frequently spoken along with French-derived creole languages, being Madagascar the major exception. There, a Malayo-Polynesian language (Malagasy) is spoken along with French.
In the Sub-Saharan Africa region, it is more probably French to be expanded due to the expansion of education and it is also there the language has evolved most in recent years.. French speakers from other countries might have difficulties to understand some vernacular forms of French in Africa, but written French is very closely related to those of the rest of the French-speaking world.
Many African countries does have as an official language French, most of them former French or Belgian colonies.
Moreover, in Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, French does not have the official status, while it is an administrative language and commonly used.
In Algeria, some reforms have been implemented recently to improve the status of Arabic relative to French, especially in education.
Although the predominant European language in Egypt is English, the French language is considered to be a more sophisticated language by some elements of the Egyptian upper and upper-middle classes; consequently, a typical educated Egyptian will learn French in addition to English at some point in his or her education. The perception of sophistication may be consequence of using French in the royal court language of Egypt during the 19th century. Egypt takes part in La Francophonie.
Mayotte and Réunion, two overseas territories of France located in the Indian Ocean has French as official language, as well as an administrative and educational language in Mauritius, along with English.
In Asia, the French language is an administrative one in Laos and Lebanon, and is used unofficially in parts of Cambodia, India (Mahé, Karikal and Yanam), Vietnam and Syria. The French language has official status in Union Territory of Pondicherry, along with the regional language Tamil. In southern China, French was historically spoken by the elite in the leased territory Guangzhou wan.
Oceania
French has official status in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, along with France's territories of French Polynesia, Wallis & Futuna and New Caledonia.