Flemish interpreting and translation

Flemish interpreting for business, law and healthcare

Our Flemish interpreters attend contract negotiations, board meetings, depositions, court hearings and medical consultations in person, and also work by telephone at any hour and by video through the SILA Linguists® app or your preferred platform. For conferences, product launches and EU or international meetings we provide simultaneous interpreting, including remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI), as well as consecutive interpreting for smaller groups.

Everyday Flemish speech includes strong regional dialects, West Flemish, East Flemish, Brabantian and Limburgish, plus an informal in-between register known as tussentaal. West Flemish is also heard in French Flanders around Dunkirk. Tell us if your speaker has a pronounced regional accent and we will brief the interpreter. Many Flemish professionals speak excellent French and English, but formal hearings and clinical conversations should still take place in the language they prefer.

Belgian Dutch translation and certified translation

Legal, tax and employment terminology differs between Belgium and the Netherlands, so we ask which country your readers are in and translate accordingly. Typical work includes commercial contracts, articles of association, court judgments, employment documents, technical manuals, tender files and patient records, from Flemish into English and from English into Belgian Dutch.

Certified Flemish translation with a signed statement of accuracy is accepted by UK authorities such as courts, the Home Office and universities, and by employers. For companies entering the Flemish market we also localise websites, software and marketing campaigns so they read naturally to Belgian customers rather than sounding imported from Amsterdam.

Transcription and subtitling

We transcribe Flemish meetings, interviews, podcasts and recorded evidence with time stamps and English translation, and we subtitle corporate and training video for Belgian audiences, with dialect passages handled by linguists who know them. Recorded witness interviews and call-centre audio for compliance reviews are typical examples, alongside market research focus groups held in Antwerp, Ghent or Brussels.

Settings for our linguists in Flemish

Our vetted, trained and qualified Flemish linguists can support law firms and courts, finance and insurance, engineering, logistics, healthcare, universities, recruitment and EU-facing organisations. You work with one project team, and our vetted linguists sign confidentiality agreements and follow UK GDPR on every file.