Italian interpreters and translators for care providers, hospitals, solicitors, importers, universities and families anywhere in the UK, with face-to-face, telephone and video interpreting, certified translation between Italian and English, and bookings taken 24 hours a day, including the paperwork that comes with an inheritance or a property in Italy.
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Italian interpreting services
Standard Italian, spread through schooling and national television across the twentieth century, is what professional interpreters speak, and nearly every Italian in the UK understands it. Accents still carry information: a speaker from Milan and one from Palermo sound very different, and older people slip in local words for food, family and illness. It is also worth asking where a client grew up. Some holders of Italian passports were raised in Argentina or Brazil and are more at ease in Spanish or Portuguese.
Consecutive interpreting suits consultations and interviews. Italian speakers often build long sentences with several clauses, so ask them to pause a little more often than they naturally would. For a conference or a large meeting, simultaneous interpreting from a booth is well established for Italian.
Face-to-face interpreting
The interpreter comes to you: a hospital ward, a courtroom, a council office, a home visit or a business meeting. It is the best choice when people need to read expressions as well as words, or when the conversation is long or sensitive.
Telephone interpreting
The quickest option to set up. It works well for short calls, triage, appointment reminders and quick checks with a client.
Video interpreting
A Italian interpreter joins by video for remote hearings, consultations and meetings, which helps when there is no interpreter near you.
We also provide medical interpreting and conference interpreting.
Certified Italian translation
Every Italian job goes to a translator working into their native language, English or Italian as the case may be. Most civil papers come from the comune, the local authority that keeps the registers: extracts of birth, marriage and death records, the certificato di residenza, and the stato di famiglia, which lists everyone registered at one address. Many carry the codice fiscale, the tax code built from letters of the surname and given name, the date and place of birth and the person's sex, so a mistyped character can be caught against the other details.
Married women in Italy keep their birth surname on official documents, which can puzzle a UK office expecting a husband's name, so we flag it. Inheritance and property bring notarial deeds and succession declarations, and a UK bank or solicitor handling the estate may ask for a certified English translation of them.
- Certified translation of birth, marriage and death certificates, passports, driving licences, degree certificates and bank statements, for the Home Office, courts, universities and employers.
- Legal translation: witness statements, court bundles, contracts and immigration papers.
- Document translation of medical reports, letters, leaflets and patient information.
- Urgent translation when a deadline is close.
- Transcription of Italian audio and video recordings, with an English translation if you need one.
English to Italian translation
For Italian readers in the UK, write in standard Italian and use the courteous Lei form. It suits patient letters, council notices and legal correspondence alike, while the informal tu, fine for marketing to younger readers, can sound over-familiar to an older person asked to sign something. Italian also marks gender on adjectives and past participles, so a letter to "the patient" needs to know whether that is a man or a woman, or needs wording that avoids the choice.
Italian court and police interpreters
Italian nationals come before UK criminal, family and civil courts, and Italian proceedings sometimes reach British courts through extradition requests. For these cases we book Italian interpreters who know court procedure, preferring those with the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Law) or a place on the National Register of Public Service Interpreters (NRPSI), both of which Italian interpreters can and do hold. Terms need care. A sentenza is a judgment, whatever the outcome, not necessarily a sentence, and a denuncia is a report or complaint made to the police rather than a denunciation.
How to book an Italian interpreter
- Tell us about the assignment: the date, time and address, or that you need telephone or video; how long it should last; and what it is for, such as a hospital appointment, a hearing or a business meeting.
- Tell us about the speaker: their country or region and, if you know it, their dialect. Mention any preference for a male or female interpreter.
- Get your quote. We email you a quote, with no obligation to book.
Call 0800 2425 125, email info@uklinguisticservices.co.uk or request a quote online.
About the Italian language
Italian is a Romance language, spoken mainly in Italy, San Marino, Vatican City and southern Switzerland. It is the official language of Italy and San Marino, an official language of Switzerland and Vatican City, and an official language of the European Union.
Italian is written in the Latin alphabet.
At the 2021 Census, 160,010 usual residents of England and Wales aged three or over gave Italian as their main language, one of the ten most common main languages in England and Wales. The local authorities with the most were the London borough of Tower Hamlets (6,643 people), the London borough of Wandsworth (5,168) and the London borough of Southwark (4,254). Source: Office for National Statistics.
Before you book: Some older Italians in the UK are as comfortable in a regional language such as Neapolitan or Sicilian as in standard Italian, so it is worth asking.
| Name in Italian | italiano |
|---|---|
| Language family | Romance language |
| Where it is spoken | Italy, San Marino, Vatican City and southern Switzerland |
| Writing system | Latin alphabet |
| Language code | it |
| Main language in England and Wales (Census 2021) | 160,010 people |
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Some Italian families have been settled in Britain for more than a century. Many Scottish Italians trace their roots to Barga in Tuscany or to the villages of the Val di Comino around Picinisco, and many Welsh cafe families came from Bardi in the hills above Parma. In the 1950s the Bedford brickworks recruited large numbers of workers from southern Italy.
Italian interpreter and translator FAQs
How quickly can I book an Italian interpreter?
We take bookings 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Telephone and video interpreting are usually the quickest to arrange. For a face-to-face appointment, give us as much notice as you can: same-day cover is often possible, but it depends on where you are and how many Italian interpreters work nearby.
How much does an Italian interpreter cost?
The price depends on the type of interpreting (face-to-face, telephone or video), how long the appointment lasts, where it is and how much notice you give. We quote before anything is booked, and quotes are free: call 0800 2425 125 or use our online quote form.
Can you certify Italian translations for a UK visa or immigration application?
Yes. We translate and certify documents such as birth and marriage certificates, passports and police certificates for visa, settlement and citizenship applications. UK Visas and Immigration asks for each translation to confirm that it is accurate and to show the date and the translator's full name, signature and contact details, so tell us when you order that the document is for an immigration application.
Do you provide Italian interpreters for courts, tribunals and police interviews?
Yes. Tell us the setting when you book, for example a Crown Court trial, an immigration tribunal hearing or a police interview under caution, so we can match an Italian interpreter with the right legal experience and qualifications.
How many people speak Italian in the UK?
At the 2021 Census, 160,010 usual residents of England and Wales aged three or over gave Italian as their main language, one of the ten most common main languages in England and Wales. The local authorities with the most were the London borough of Tower Hamlets (6,643 people), the London borough of Wandsworth (5,168) and the London borough of Southwark (4,254). The census asked for each person's main language, so people who speak Italian at home but gave English as their main language are not in that figure. Scotland and Northern Ireland count languages in their own censuses.
