Czech translation and interpreting services

Veritas can provide you with high quality Czech to English / English to Czech translation services and interpreting services, carried out by qualified and professional translators and interpreters in a broad range of sectors, including legal, medical, business, financial, and many technical spheres.

The most important part of choosing a translation company is trust. Since you probably don’t speak Czech yourself, it is important that you are confident about choosing the right translation company.

Veritas only works with in-country Czech translators who have at least 5 years’ professional experience and who are experts in the field you require. Whether you need a translation of a legal contract, a technical document, a website, software or a birth certificate, we have the right translator for you who translates solely into their native language.

Veritas can translate any document, no matter how large or small or at which time scale. Contact us today for a translation quotation or interpreting quotation.

About the Czech language

Known as Bohemian in England until the late 19th century, Czech belongs to a group of West Slavic Languages of Indo- European division and is spoken by approximately 12 million people worldwide. It is related to the Polish language. The majority of its 10 million speakers are in the Czech Republic and the remainder (around 2 million) are found in Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Canada and the United States.

The Czech language sounds very similar to Slovakian and there are 2 distinctive dialect types. The most spoken is Common Czech, spoken especially in Bohemia, the western part of the country and used primarily in conversation. The second type is Standard Czech, which is taught in schools and used for official purposes. This type is mostly spoken in Moravia, the Eastern part of the country, and Silesia.

Czech language uses an adapted form of the Roman alphabet comprising 42 graphemes. There are many words that do not contain vowels and a common phrase to illustrate this is ”strc prst skrz krk”, which means “stick a finger through your throat”. This is one of the main reasons why English speakers find it difficult to learn Czech. According to The Foreign Service Institute (FSI), it takes approximately 1100 class hours to achieve professional speaking and reading proficiency in Czech!