Sydney Vietnamese Translator

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Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, is best known for its harbourfront Sydney Opera House, with a distinctive sail-like design. Massive Darling Harbour and the smaller Circular Quay port are hubs of waterside life, with the arched Harbour Bridge and esteemed Royal Botanic Garden nearby. Sydney Tower’s outdoor platform, the Skywalk, offers 360-degree views of the city and suburbs.

Certified Vietnamese translation of the following types of documents are prepared by our experienced NAATI certified Vietnamese translators:

• Vietnamese death certificate translation
• Vietnamese degree translation
• Vietnamese diploma translation
• Vietnamese divorce certificate translation
• Vietnamese driver licence translation
• Vietnamese employment record translation
• Vietnamese financial document translations such as bank statements
• Vietnamese legal contract translation
• Vietnamese marriage certificate translation
• Vietnamese medical report translation
• Vietnamese name-change certificate translation
• Vietnamese passport translation
• Vietnamese personal letters and cards
• Vietnamese police check translation
• Vietnamese police report translation
• Vietnamese school transcript translation
• Vietnamese utility bill translations
• Wills and Power of Attorney translation

Vietnamese Business Translation Services

• Vietnamese brochure translation
• Vietnamese website translation
• Vietnamese marketing translation
• Vietnamese technical translation
• Vietnamese medical translation

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About the Vietnamese Language

Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austro-Asiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin.

Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, and it was formerly written using the Chinese writing system, albeit in a modified format and was given vernacular pronunciation.

Vietnamese Community in Australia

Vietnamese is one of Australia's largest non-English speaking communities, with the community's roots tracing back to the humanitarian intake that followed the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the subsequent refugee movements across Southeast Asia. The community is well-established in both Melbourne and Sydney, and is now multi-generational — with the original arrivals' children and grandchildren now prominent in law, medicine, business, and the arts. Translation needs within this community are diverse as a result of its age and size. Immigration documents remain relevant for newer arrivals, but many requests now involve business contracts, property matters, and documents related to assets or family members still in Vietnam. One complication that practitioners encounter regularly: Vietnamese records issued before 1975 by the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) government are sometimes held in incomplete or damaged archives, and the format differs significantly from documents issued by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after 1975. Translators familiar with both pre- and post-1975 document formats are essential for older civil records. Modern Vietnamese is written in a Romanised script (chữ Quốc ngữ) with a complex system of diacritical marks that indicate tone — a word's meaning changes entirely depending on which tone mark is applied. Vietnam is a Hague Apostille Convention member, meaning current Vietnamese civil documents should be apostille-stamped for use in Australia.

Vietnamese Community in Sydney

Cabramatta in Sydney's southwest became Australia's original and most significant Vietnamese settlement, established by the humanitarian intake of the 1970s and early 80s. The suburb remains a centre of Vietnamese commercial and cultural life. Sydney's Vietnamese community is one of the two largest in Australia alongside Melbourne's.