Vietnamese to English Translation

Be aware of the linguistic and cultural differences

English and Vietnamese belong to two different language families: Indo-European and Austroasiatic, respectively. This means that the structure and inner logic of these languages are very different, which can make Vietnamese to English translation more tricky.

For example, Vietnamese is a highly analytical language that employs various ‘helper words’ instead of inflection. When you translate Vietnamese to English, you must pay close attention to this fact to be able to translate documents and other types of texts correctly.

There are also significant differences between Vietnamese and western cultures that can affect Vietnamese to English translation as well. An online English translation tool will not be able to pick up the nuanced differences between the Vietnamese language and the English language. 

Vietnamese homographs

In the Vietnamese language, there are a lot of homographs: words that have the same written (and often also spoken) form, but different meanings. In Vietnamese to English translation, such words need special attention.

Even though the context is usually enough to understand homographs, when you translate Vietnamese to English in a business context, it is essential to be very careful with the homographs. It is better to double-check and be safe than sorry.

Work with an experienced translation team

Due to the peculiarities of the Vietnamese language, machine translation is out of the question: even with enough context, a machine cannot deal with homographs and ambiguity as well as a human can.

The highly trained and experienced team of native speakers in our translation company in Singapore can offer high quality Vietnamese to English translation services of any complexity. In order to also understand a new market and the nuances involved in cultural adaption, our localisation services will be useful to you. You can search for keywords such as “Viet to Eng or Viet to English” to learn more about us and our other translation services.

Latin script

Many languages spoken in Asia are associated with hieroglyphs or alphabets different from the Latin script employed by many Indo-European languages. However, Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language that is written using the Latin script.

Vietnamese uses the Latin script, based on how it is used in Romance languages, in particular the Portuguese alphabet, with a few digraphs and the addition of nine accent marks or diacritics to create additional sounds or to indicate the tone of each word. These diacritics, often two on the same vowel, make written Vietnamese easily recognizable.

Almost 1500 years old

Proto-Vietnamese, the earliest reconstructable version of the Vietnamese language, is dated around the 7th century CE. Since that time, the Vietnamese language has undergone many changes and transformation. When you translate Vietnamese to English today, it is quite a different language.

Vietnamese has been heavily influenced by the Chinese language over the course of history. According to different estimates, around 50-70% of Vietnamese vocabulary is of Chinese origin.dt_gap height=”15″ /]

One of the world’s top languages

Although Vietnamese (around 77 million speakers) has considerably fewer speakers than English (more than one billion speakers), it can still be counted as one of the world’s top languages.

According to different estimates, it is either in the top twenty or right next to it. Vietnamese to English translation, especially high-quality translation