French-Speaking Jobs from Home

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The companies on this list offer French-speaking jobs that can be done from the comfort of your home office. Some require that you are based in the U.S. or Canada, but many can be worked from anywhere in the world. If you speak other languages too, see this list of bilingual jobs from home for more languages.

Appen

Type of Job: Translation Review, Search Evaluation

French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Hires language consultants and data Annotators who evaluate online search results as well as translators and transcriptionist. Looks for candidates with experience in linguistics, especially computational; software testing and library science plus a native-level fluency in more than one language other than English.

Apple At-Home Advisors

Type of Job: Call Center, Tech Support

French Skills Required: Speaking
Apple at Home is a work at home call center program from Apple that is part of the company's AppleCare department. Use the keyword "home" in the company’s job database.

Clickworker

Type of Job: Translation, data entry
French Skills Required: Reading, Writing, Research
Global company uses crowdsourcing to distribute microtasks (aka micro-labor) in fields such as writing translating, data entry and research to more than 300,000 "clickworkers" worldwide.

Connections Academy

Type of Job: Teaching
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching
Connections Academy hires certified teachers for online teaching jobs. It includes foreign language teacher for K-12 German, French, and Spanish.

Enterprise Holdings

Type of Job: Call Center
French Skills Required: Speaking
The parent company of Alamo, Enterprise and National Car Rental recruits work-at-home, French-speaking agents in Canada and the U.S. English skills must be excellent as well.

GlobaLink Translations Ltd.

Type of Job: Translation, Translation Review, Localization
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching
Canadian company assists clients with translation and cultural adaptation needs. Its translation jobs are for both translators and translation reviewers.

gofluent

Type of Job: Teaching
French Skills Required: Speaking, Writing, Teaching
Teaching English by phone, gofluent seeks home-based trainers who are native English speakers who are bilingual in French. It only hires from Kansas, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Canada.

Google

Type of Job: Translation Review
French Skills Required: Reading, Writing
Hires ads quality raters, who evaluate the accuracy of Google web advertising and communicating the effectiveness of web layouts and information using an online tool. The requirements include a BA/BS degree (or equivalent experience), fluency in a specific language as well as English, an understanding of the culture of the speakers of the specific language, web research and analytical capabilities, high-speed Internet connection and U.S. work authorization.

Languages Unlimited, LLC

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Company hires linguists on a freelance basis for translation jobs as well as on-site and telephone interpretation and transcription services. To apply, register in company’s database.

Linguistic Systems Inc.

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Requirements include two years’ experience, college degree, access to email and knowledge of use basic translation software tools. Company seeks "language professionals with in depth knowledge in a professional field (such as medicine, software, finance, and engineering, interpreters or narrators (voice-over professionals) living in the New England area." Online application includes translating a short text for each language pair you wish to qualify in. Permit to work in the U.S. required.

Lionbridge

Type of Job: Translation Review, Localization, Search Evaluation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Global localization company provides translation and localization to business clients as well as "global crowdsourcing solutions for clients with international search engines and online marketing initiatives." Its Internet assessor jobs (similar to Google's ads quality raters).

NetworkOmni

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation, Desktop Publishing, Localization
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing,
Hires experienced freelance language specialists as independent contractors. Minimum requirements are 3 years professional experience in translation or interpretation, college degree, and knowledge in specific subject areas, such as legal and financial matters, marketing writing, medical and general business. Also has freelance opportunities for desktop publishers and localization engineers.

LiveOps

Type of Job: Call Center
French Skills Required: Speaking
Company hires independent-contractor, call-center agents, including licensed insurance agents, for a variety of positions including outbound sales, bilingual customer service, and financial services.

Pacific Interpreters

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Company hires telephonic interpreters and translators for the medical industry. U.S. citizenship/work permit and experience in medical industry required.

Quicktate or iDictate

Type of Job: Transcription, data entry
French Skills Required: Oral comprehension, writing
Company offers transcription of short audio files, such as voicemails and dictated notes, by hiring work-at-home transcribers. Quicktate pays USD .0025 per word and iDictate, and Quicktates medical transcription work pays $.0050 USD per word, via PayPal. Successful Quicktate transcriptionists may receive work from iDictate, which transcribes a wider range of longer documents. Bilingual, particularly Spanish and English, transcribers needed but other languages such as French desired too.

Responsive Translation Services

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Hires freelance translators and on-site interpreters. College degree required. Email resume for consideration.

Rosetta Stone

Type of Job: Teaching
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching
Hires online language tutors.

SDL

Type of Job: Translation, Localization
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Global information management company hires freelance translators for translation jobs. The company is a supplier of localization services to the IT, engineering, e-business & multimedia sectors, and experience in those and other business sectors is helpful. Requirements are a minimum 2 years freelance (or 1 year in-house) translation experience, but the company says it accepts "translators with relevant alternative experience or qualifications."

Telelanguage

Type of Job: Translation, Interpretation
French Skills Required: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Company offers opportunities for both on-site and telephone interpreters.