Brazilian Portuguese interpreting and translation

Brazilian Portuguese interpreting services

An interpreter from Portugal will usually be understood, but in mental health, child protection or a GP surgery, a distant or formal tone can affect trust. That is why we prioritise interpreters who use você naturally, say ônibus rather than autocarro, and are at ease with regional speech from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to the North-East and the South.

Our Brazilian Portuguese interpreting covers face-to-face appointments, hearings and site visits; telephone interpreting, available 24 hours a day, every day; and video interpreting through the SILA Linguists® app or your own platform. For board meetings, product launches, investor events and training we supply consecutive, simultaneous and remote simultaneous interpreters (RSI), and conference teams for larger events.

Translation, certified translation and localisation

Contracts, financial reports, employment documents, medical records and court bundles all need Brazilian spelling, terminology and date and number formats. Our translators work into and out of English, and for websites, apps, software and marketing we provide full localisation rather than a lightly adjusted European Portuguese text. We also offer AI-assisted translation with human post-editing for large volumes of content.

Documents coming from Brazil for use in the UK receive certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy, accepted by UK authorities, universities and international bodies. Papers going to Canada can be translated by a translator certified with a provincial association, while US filings receive a signed certificate of translation accuracy. For documents going to Brazil, Brazilian authorities generally require a sworn translation (tradução juramentada) by a public translator registered there, and Brazil is part of the Hague Apostille Convention, so we advise you to check what the receiving body needs.

Transcription and subtitling

We transcribe interviews, meetings, podcasts and recorded evidence in Brazilian Portuguese, with time stamps and translation, and create subtitles for marketing video, e-learning and broadcast content. Multimedia localisation is available too, adapting on-screen text and captions so that each version of a video feels local to Brazilian viewers rather than imported.

Sectors we support in Brazilian Portuguese

Our vetted, trained and qualified Brazilian Portuguese linguists can support solicitors, courts and immigration advisers, NHS and social care services, schools and universities recruiting Brazilian students, banks and insurers, technology companies, energy and engineering firms, and media producers. Whatever the brief, one project team at SILA Linguists® manages it under confidentiality agreements and UK GDPR. Brazilian families in North America are covered too: our Portuguese interpreters can join hearings before US immigration judges, Canadian refugee proceedings, hospital appointments and school meetings.