Translation and Interpretation Languages

Spanish is the second-most-spoken language in the United States and the most-requested language pair for translation and interpretation. More than 41 million U.S. residents speak Spanish at home, and demand spans immigration filings, healthcare, schools, courts and every consumer industry.

Mandarin is the official spoken language of mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore and the world's most-spoken first language. It is the default Chinese for U.S. interpretation bookings unless the client specifically requests Cantonese.

Arabic is one of the UN official languages and the liturgical language of Islam. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA, فصحى) is used for all formal writing, while more than 20 regional spoken dialects vary widely in intelligibility.

Russian is a Slavic language with roughly 250 million speakers across the former Soviet space. In the U.S. it is spoken by communities of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Moldovan, Uzbek, Kazakh and Central-Asian origin who share Russian as a lingua franca.

French is an official language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Canada and most of West and Central Africa. More than 300 million people speak French worldwide and variant-specific expertise materially affects accuracy.

Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé & Príncipe and Timor-Leste. Brazilian Portuguese accounts for ~80% of U.S. demand; European Portuguese is distinct in spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

Korean is the official language of South Korea and North Korea and is spoken by about 80 million people worldwide. Its honorific system encodes strict social hierarchy and meaningfully affects interpretation.

Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam, with about 85 million speakers. It is tonal and written in the Latin-based quốc ngữ alphabet with diacritics.

Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) is a French-based creole spoken by ~12 million people, co-official with French in Haiti. It is a fully developed language with its own orthography (IPN) standardised in 1979 — not a French dialect.

Polish is a West Slavic language with about 45 million native speakers. It uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics and is grammatically complex (seven cases, aspectual verbs).

Tagalog is the basis of Filipino, the national language of the Philippines. In the U.S. it is the fourth-most-spoken non-English language. Filipino speakers are typically fully bilingual English-Tagalog but often require Tagalog for elderly family members and informal registers.

Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari and the most-spoken first language of Northern India, with around 340 million speakers. In formal U.S. contexts Hindi is often paired with Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali or Tamil depending on the speaker's home region.

Japanese is the official language of Japan with about 125 million speakers. It uses three writing systems (hiragana, katakana, kanji) and has strict honorific (keigo) registers that materially affect translation and interpretation.

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and a scheduled language of India. It shares syntax with Hindi but uses Perso-Arabic script and draws vocabulary from Persian and Arabic for formal registers.

Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine and a distinct Slavic language, not a dialect of Russian. Demand in the U.S. has grown significantly since 2022 driven by the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) humanitarian parole programme.