Bilingual English and French websites, and sites in 300+ other languages, translated by people.
Website translation turns your site's pages, menus, forms and messages into another language so visitors can use it as easily as the original. Prism Linguistics translates websites into French and 300+ other languages for Canadian businesses, public bodies and non-profits, working from your content management system's export files and returning them ready to import.
Send the site address or the exported content, the target languages and your deadline, and you receive a fixed written quote, usually within 60 minutes.
For many Canadian organizations the first translation is French. Federal institutions publish in both official languages, and in Quebec the Charter of the French language requires commercial publications, including websites, to be available in French. Check the current rules from the Office quebecois de la langue francaise for your situation.
A French site for Canadian visitors should read as Canadian French: vocabulary, spelling conventions, number and date formats, and the way prices, phone numbers and addresses are written. Tell us your audience and we translate for it.
Everything a visitor reads, not only the body text.
Home, service, product, about and contact pages, blog articles and news.
Menus, buttons, forms, error and confirmation messages, cookie notices and search.
Page titles, meta descriptions, image alt text and URL slugs, so each language version can be found in search.
Terms of use, privacy policy and accessibility statements, handled with the same care as other legal documents.
Product names, descriptions, specifications, shipping and returns information.
Order confirmations, account emails, newsletters and automated messages.
The cleanest route is usually an export. Most content management systems and translation plugins can export content as XLIFF, PO, JSON, HTML or a spreadsheet; we translate the text and return the file in the same format, so your developer or plugin imports it without copying and pasting. Ask us which format suits your platform.
If an export is not possible, send a list of page addresses and we work from the live site, returning the translation in a file that matches your page structure.
Give each language its own address, for example a separate folder, so search engines can index it, and link the language versions of each page to each other. Translate titles, descriptions and slugs rather than leaving them in English.
The same translation, editing and proofreading workflow we use for documents.
Websites change. Send new and changed content as it is published and only that content is translated, so each language stays in step with the original. The price depends on the languages, the number of words and the file format, and you receive a fixed written quote before work starts.
Adapting software, apps or products for a market goes beyond the website; see localization services.
It depends on your organization and audience. Federal institutions publish in both official languages, and in Quebec the Charter of the French language requires commercial publications, including websites, to be available in French. Check the current rules that apply to you.
The cleanest route is usually an export file from your CMS or translation plugin, such as XLIFF, PO, JSON or HTML. We translate it and return it in the same format, ready to import. Ask us which format suits your platform.
Website translations are done by professional human translators and reviewed by a second linguist, so the text reads naturally and terminology stays consistent.
Yes. Titles, meta descriptions, image alt text and URL slugs are part of the translation, so each language version can be found in search.
Send new or changed content as it is published, and only that content is translated, so every language version stays in step with the original.
The price depends on the languages, the number of words to translate and the file format. You receive a fixed written quote before work starts.
Send the site address or export for a fixed written quote. Call +1 888 693 6123 or email info@prismlinguistics.ca.
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