French Canadian translation services

French Canadian translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the Québec terminology included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native French Canadian linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that the terminology follows Québec usage and the OQLF throughout rather than slipping into the usage of France.

Yes — French Canadian translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary built on Québec terminology, so the subtitles, the narration and the on-screen text never mix Québec and France.

It will be understood, and it will read as written somewhere else. The OQLF criticises borrowings that France accepts — week-end, parking — and Québec has established terms of its own for many everyday things. For material aimed at Québec customers, we recommend a Québec version rather than a reused European one.

Among other things, it requires French for inscriptions on products and packaging, for catalogues, brochures and similar documents available to the public, for contracts of adhesion and for public signs and commercial advertising, and it requires software to be available in French. We translate the material; for legal questions about your obligations, your Québec counsel is the right reference.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

Yes, as an adaptation by a native Québec linguist rather than a word list. Terminology, borrowings and phrasing are reviewed line by line against OQLF usage; it is usually quicker than a new translation, and the result reads as written in Québec.

Yes, as a separate version with its own glossary. When a project needs both, we run them as two deliverables from the same source rather than one compromise text, because a single version ends up sounding foreign in both markets.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.