# French Translation Services

> French translation services for documents from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Africa, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS.

https://roxotranslations.com/french-translation/

Roxo Translations offers French translation services for documents from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti and the French-speaking countries of Africa, to and from English, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS; for Brazil it can be a sworn translation into Portuguese, valid nationwide.

- French from France, Canada and Africa, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS or sworn for use in Brazil
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where French is spoken and where your translation is accepted

French is an official language in more than 25 countries on five continents: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Monaco in Europe, Canada and Haiti in the Americas, and more than 20 countries in Africa, from Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has more than 300 million speakers and is an official language of the United Nations and of the European Union. A French document can be needed almost anywhere, and the destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide |
| France, Canada and other French-speaking countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Consulates, embassies and citizenship processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## French language pairs we translate

French is one of our core languages. These are the language pairs with French that we translate today, in both directions.

- [French to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [French to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [French to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [French to Portuguese](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- [French to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [French to Spanish](https://roxotranslations.com/spanish-translation/)
- [Arabic to French](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to French](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to French](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Portuguese to French](https://roxotranslations.com/portuguese-translation/)
- [Russian to French](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Spanish to French](https://roxotranslations.com/spanish-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## French translation services for France, Canada and Africa

French is one language, but the French of France, of Quebec, of Belgium and Switzerland and of Africa differ in vocabulary, in some numbers and in the way documents are written. A good translation follows the variant of the country where the document will be used.

- Vocabulary: email is e-mail or mail in France and courriel in Quebec, and shopping is faire du shopping in France and magasiner in Quebec.
- Numbers: 70 and 90 are soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix in France and Canada, and septante and nonante in Belgium and Switzerland.
- Names: compound first names such as Jean-Pierre or Marie-Claire keep the hyphen, a married woman’s birth name appears as née, and the translation keeps every name exactly as in the original.
- Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year, so 03/10/2026 is October 3, decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents: a French birth record can be a full copy (copie intégrale) or an extract (extrait), families keep a livret de famille, and Quebec issues its own certificates. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the French language

French grew out of the Latin spoken in Gaul, with words left by the Celtic Gauls and by the Germanic Franks who gave France its name. The oldest text in a form of French is the Oaths of Strasbourg, sworn in 842 by two grandsons of Charlemagne.

In 1539, the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts made French the language of the courts and of official documents in France. In 1635, Cardinal Richelieu founded the Académie française to look after the language, and in the following centuries French became the language of diplomacy in Europe. Explorers and colonists took it to North America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific.

Today French has more than 300 million speakers on five continents, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the country with the most French speakers after France. It is one of the working languages of the United Nations and of the Olympic Games.

## We also translate other languages

- [English translation](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [German translation](https://roxotranslations.com/german-translation/)
- [Vietnamese translation](https://roxotranslations.com/vietnamese-translation/)
- [Italian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Arabic translation](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)