Posted by George Trail
on August 15, 2009, 10:31 pm
86.152.112.47
This is to advertise my services as a full-time English language mother-tongue professional freelance translator (language pairs: French to English, German to English). I studied French and German and translation studies at three higher-education academic institutions over five years. I can typically translate around 2500 words a day.
I am highly literate but I understand that no translation task should be approached without an open mind with regard to the message intended. When I do translation work I accept it as standard practice to be ready to be creative and innovative as I speculate with the right level of caution at all stages of the translation process. I do double-checking specifically to rectify what is contextually errant but otherwise "verbally correct".
I can claim in all sincerity that I am an insightful and versatile professional. And I am generally comfortable at bringing about a coherent and sensible translation of terminology, as long as it is not what people would call elusive or highly prescriptive.
In my career I have successfully completed translation projects in a number of areas; the list includes academic / creative material (long textbook articles, product descriptions), basic legal and business material (contracts and leases, as well as formal correspondence, material pertaining to officially recognised certification and terms and conditions articles), IT / technical material (an instruction manual for the PC and PC software and how to use the Internet, website content, a patent and technical drawings), and several medical reports for the Ministry of Defence. I would only be happy to discuss further, or to outline my fields of preference in more detail, if requested.
I accept bank transfer, Paypal, Moneybookers and Western Union.
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