Vietnamese interpreting and translation

Vietnamese interpreters in sensitive settings

Our Vietnamese interpreters are experienced in asylum interviews, modern slavery and trafficking cases, police interviews, criminal courts, employment rights advice and hospital care. We provide face-to-face interpreters, telephone interpreting day or night, bank holidays included, and video interpreting via the SILA Linguists® app or your preferred platform, along with conference and simultaneous interpreting for trade delegations.

Some clients in exploitation cases are wary of interpreters from their own community, so confidentiality and neutrality are non-negotiable, and we respect reasonable preferences, including gender. Vietnamese pronouns are kinship terms such as anh, chị, em, cô, chú and bác that signal age and respect, and our interpreters choose them carefully. Because Vietnamese grammar does not mark tense, they also make time references explicit in English.

Certified Vietnamese translation and localisation

Vietnamese uses the Latin-based Quốc ngữ alphabet, with stacked diacritics marking both vowels and tones; a missing mark can change a word entirely. Our translators and typesetters check every accent. We certify translations of birth certificates, marriage and household registration records, police clearance certificates, court judgments and diplomas with a signed statement of accuracy, accepted by UK authorities such as the Home Office, courts and universities, keeping the family name, middle name and given name in passport order. Vietnamese records needed in the United States, Canada or Australia are certified in the form each authority specifies, NAATI-certified translation for Australia among them.

For companies selling to Vietnamese users, we localise websites, apps and product information and adapt marketing for Vietnam's fast-growing digital market. AI-assisted translation with human post-editing is available for large product catalogues and help-centre content.

Vietnamese transcription and LADO

Interview recordings, intercepted calls, social media voice messages and video evidence are transcribed with time markers and a parallel English text, with any dialect features that matter to the case noted. For asylum and trafficking matters, language analysis for the determination of origin (LADO) is available through specialist analysts. Northern, central and southern features in a speaker's accent are recorded faithfully, because in some cases they become part of the evidence.

Settings for our linguists in Vietnamese

Our vetted, trained and qualified Vietnamese linguists can support immigration and asylum representatives, anti-trafficking charities, police, courts and solicitors, NHS services, employment advisers, nail and beauty sector employers, and businesses importing from Vietnam. You have one point of contact, vetted interpreters and translators, and confidentiality undertakings and the UK GDPR protecting every file. Vietnamese interpreters can assist courts, employers, hospitals and immigration lawyers in the United States, Canada and Australia.