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Purveyor of Literary and Linguistic Services

With a large amount of experience in writing and in the provision of literary and linguistic services such as proofreading,... editing, author coaching, and translation, I am able to offer the highest standard of work. I operate an open communication policy to ensure you receive precisely the result you need, and I use flexible scheduling to try and fit your work into the shortest possible timeframe. In terms of articles, I am able to cover most topics effectively and completely. In terms of more creative writing, I am quite experienced and have had some of my short stories published. Additionally, I have had some work commissioned which allowed me to learn more about tailoring a creative project to a client's needs.
Skills: Blogging | Copy Writing | Creative Writing | Dutch | ... Editing Skills | English | French | Journalistic writing | Linux | MS Word | Project Management | Proofreading | Speed typing gt 70 WPM

Translator

English-French/French-English Professional Translator provides translations covering all areas, from technical to literary.
Skills: English | French | Journalistic writing | Spanish | Swedish

proofreader/copy editor/translator

I provide a copy editing, proofreading and translation service (French-English-French). I have also written many website articles, which have involved considerable research. I have a BA honours degree in French and I have lived much of my life in France. I am ...completely fluent in both written and spoken French. I regularly translate (French-English-French) legal, medical and bureaucratic documents, academic and literary... articles, and websites I have proofreading certificates with merit from The Publishing Training Centre, London, and from the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), London, and am an associate member of the SfEP. I copy edit and proofread all subjects. I also have a diploma in the History of Art from the Inchbald School of Design. In music, I have passed the ABRSM grade VIII piano and grade VII theory. I am strongly affiliated to the arts: Classical music, painting and history of art, history and literature. Most of my working life has been within one of these fields.
Skills: Copy Writing | Editing Skills | English | French

Professional native-speaker translator, lyricist, write...

Professional native-speaker translator, lyricist, writer, proof reader and language tutor offering a wide array of language services: - Quality dynamic... translations: English (UK/US) into French, and French into English - Creative copywriting services (lyric writing, copywriting, creative writing, proofreading, editing, etc.) - Adult language tuition (English and French) GENERAL AND TECHNICAL TRANSLATION I provide general and technical translations using English and French as both source and target languages, i.e. English into French, and French into English. I work mainly with British English, occasionally American English, and with both standard French and Belgian French. Being a native speaker of both languages, I pride myself on accurately recreating not only the content but also the tone, intent and pacing of source material. I have translated a wide variety of texts, including company brochures, press packs, website content, articles, theses, curriculum vitae, grant applications, academic texts, and administrative documents. I have also translated short stories, poems and songs. Technical translation Having studied politics to postgraduate level, worked both in microfinance and for NGOs (communications and projects), and collaborated closely with clients active in specific industries, I specialise in the following industries and subjects: - The not-for-profit sector, development, and development economics - Politics and geopolitics (especially the Middle East and the EU) - Economics, the financial industry and microfinance - Texts relating to business, SMEs and/or international commerce - The Web industry - The publishing industry - Literary translations I also have a good understanding of other social sciences not mentioned above, including geography and modern history, and an interest in psychology and psychoanalysis. EDITORIAL SERVICES I offer comprehensive proofreading, copywriting and ghost writing services in both English and French. I have experience writing the following: - Marketing materials (including brochures, press releases and press packs) - Articles (blogs and other online copy) - Company website content - Academic texts - Business proposals, business plans and grant applications - Curriculum vitae, cover letters and job advertisements + - Lyric writing (French and English pop/rock/folk) - usually subject to a royalty agreement. - Ghost writing (non-fiction) - Creative writing Creative writing Literary translations and jobs involving creative writing (fiction, poetry and lyrics) are particularly welcome. I write poetry and fiction, and have translated poems, the occasional pop song and fiction, from both English into French, and French into English. Please note that creative writing may be subject to the signing of a confidentiality clause. LANGUAGE TUITION In addition to translation and copywriting services, I offer English (TESOL) and French (FLE) language tuition to adults in the Greater London area. Lessons are tailored to clients' individual needs. Types of lessons: - General and conversational English and/or French - Business English and/or French - English and/or French pronunciation (British Received Pronunciation; French and/or Belgian pronunciation.) - Exam preparation (TOEFL, IELTS, etc.) I love a challenge, and all projects and subject matter will be considered. Rest assured that I will only accept and/or bid for jobs that I can complete both on time and to the highest standard possible; a detailed consultation with every client is included in my prices. All enquiries are welcome, and references and sample work can be provided upon request. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you require further information. Dilys Wyndham-Thomas Scribesource
Skills: Copy Writing | Editing Skills | English | French | ... Legal Language | MS Excel | MS Power Point | MS Word | Power Point Formatting | Sales/ Marketing letters | Speed typing > 50 WPM | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | Technical Writing Skills | French To English Translation Skills Test | English To French Translation Skills Test | French To English Translation Skills Test | English To French Translation Skills Test
Certified Skills: French To English Translation Skills Test, English To French Translation Skills Test, French To English Translation Skills Test, English To French Translation Skills Test

Translation French-English-French-Translator-Proofreade...

French translation. Law student, Native French translator convert written material from French into English and from English to French, ensuring that the translation conveys the meaning of the original as clearly as possible. I have an excellent command of two languages. The languages most in demand are the official languages ...of the European Union (EU)! As a translator I work on the following types of documents: scientific; technical; commercial; literary;... legal; educational. I am reading through original material and rewriting it in the target language, ensuring that the meaning of the source text is retained; I am using specialist dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to find the closest equivalents for terminology and words used; - using appropriate software for presentation and delivery; - researching legal terms to find the correct translation; - liaising with clients to discuss any unclear points; - proofreading and editing final translated versions; - providing clients with a grammatically correct, well-expressed final version of the translated text, usually as a word-processed document; - using the internet and email as research tools throughout the translation process; - prioritising work to meet deadlines; - providing quotations for translation services offered; - consulting with experts in specialist areas; - retaining and developing specialist knowledge on specialist areas of translation.
Skills: Customer Service | English | French | Legal Language | ... MS Excel | MS Word | Shorthand writing | Spanish | Speed typing > 70 WPM | Technical Writing Skills | English To French Translation Skills Test | French To English Translation Skills Test
Certified Skills: English To French Translation Skills Test, French To English Translation Skills Test

Translator

I am a professional Spanish-English translator and teacher. I have been working both as freelance and as in-house translator in... Spain and UK. I am specialized in legal, audiovisual, literary and technical translation, among others. Besides, I am an Official Sworn Translator named by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Skills: Spanish

Russian- English translator. Teacher of Russian.

Professional Russian-English translator, a teacher of Russian. More than 5 years of experience. Literary translation. Technical manuals. Business and private... meetings. Phone conversations. Marriage ceremonies, visa and other types of documents. Tour guide experience: exhibitions, museums. Teaching Russian from the start and advanced course.
Skills: MS Word | Speed typing > 50... WPM | Training

Translator

I am Spanish with a BA in Translation and Interpretation (with major English and minor French). I have studied modules of ...translation such as specialized translation from English into Spanish (legal, medical, technical...) and also from Spanish into English and literary... translation from both English and French into Spanish. I have also done a end-of-term specialized translation project and a final degree project of literary translation.
Skills: English | French

French Translator / Legal writer / Writer

Offering two types of services: 1)Translation French/English - English/French General and literary translation, business translation. Services offered in any fields,... although with a specialisation in legal subjects. Offer correct, technically and culturally-meaningful translations in many areas including, but not limited to, translation of legal contracts, brochures & catalogs, reports, employee handbooks, business and personal letters as well as proofreading and editing services. 2) English writing & Research Provide writing services for articles, website content, marketing emails, business and personal letters and any other required task. Offer research services on and offline for a large array of subjects. Please enquire for details. Able to provide services for short-time or ongoing long-term projects.
Skills: Editing Skills | English | French | Legal Language | ... MS Excel | MS Power Point | MS Word | Speed typing > 50 WPM | Technical Writing Skills

English-Russian translation

My professional experience tied with my educational background makes me a perfect candidate for all your writing and translation needs. I'm skilled and experienced, and able to translate almost any kind of text. Over the last 6 years I have developed my skills in translating texts and writing essays on various topics. I started my freelance work in 2005, when I was a student of linguistic department and after the very first translation project my path was set. I understood that working in English was my greatest ...passion. I have worked as a freelance translator for over 6 years and have good and positive experience in literary... translatoin, though I'm always attracted to a challenge. I`m hard-working, well educated, have high motivation and always ready to new and interesting job. I have good experience in the following areas: - Web Content Translation; - English-Russian translation of product description (advertisement, company information, ingredients, storage instructions, recommendations, general information, etc.); - Travel Guides Translation (guidebooks, hotel descriptions, tour descriptions, resorts ads, cultural information, etc.); - Hotel descriptions and advertisement translation (hotel descriptions, tour descriptions, resort ads, vouchers, historical information, etc.); - Legal Documents Translation (Russian-English translation of court-related texts); - Literary Translations (books/novels, memoirs translation); - Proofreading services; - Russian-English translation of Internet Broadcast reports, Websites Promotion Reports, Site Optimization and Advancement Reports, Internet Project Descriptions, etc (while freelancing for a local web development company). I can offer you a very reliable professional translation at low cost yet to high standard. Need high quality services or a quote? Do not hesitate to contact me and discuss the project in details. If you have job, I have time!
Skills: English | Russian

Oswaldo - Spanish_into

I'm writer ...and translator, spanish native speaker, graduated in foreign language and philosophy. I've worked like translator during 5 years, doing literary... and technical translations. Also I've published a books and won two literary prizes.
Skills: Copy Writing | English | French | Journalistic writing | ... Legal Language | Spanish | English To Spanish Translation Skills Test
Certified Skills: English To Spanish Translation Skills Test

Translator

I am a bilingual French native speaker who has recently been awarded an MA ...in Translation Studies. I can offer translations from English into French and from French into English. My specialty is literary... translation but I have worked in other fields.
Skills: English | French

5 years of experience in translations

I am an English<>Spanish Translator with more than 5 years of experience, now I live in Oxford, England. I studied... at the National University of Cordoba (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) Faculty of Languages (Facultad de Lenguas). I specialize in business, legal and software translation, and website localization. I have received training in business, legal, technical, scientific, literary and journalistic translation. I also have a lot of experience with Interpreting as I participated in international business conferences. I think constant training is essential in the translation industry. RECENT COURSES ATTENDED Translation Project Management . Organised by the Colegio de Traductores Publicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. September 2010. Workshop on last update guidelines of the Royal Academy of the Spanish language: fundamental aspects in editing and proofreading. Organised by the Colegio de Traductores Publicos de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. May 2010. V Latin American Congress of Translation and Interpretation. Translating cultures: a bicentennial challenge. Organised by the Colegio de Traductores Publicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires at the Pan American Hotel. Buenos Aires, from Wednesday 12 to Sunday 16 May 2010. Among other courses.
Skills: Editing Skills | Italian | Legal Language | Portuguese | ... Spanish

Translation/Proofreading/Localization (English-Russian-...

7 years of Written and Oral Translations (Technical, Shipbuilding, Legal, Scientific, Literary) Proofreading Localization
Skills: Adobe InDesign | Customer Service | Dreamweaver | Editing... Skills | English | French | Management Skills | MS Access | MS Excel | MS Power Point | MS Power Point presentations | MS Word | Power Point Formatting | Project Management | Public Relations Skill | Russian | Speed typing > 70 WPM

Freelance writer

Academic and writing background for Denis MacEoin In 1984, Denis MacEoin he embarked on what was for many years his principal career, writing fiction, under the pseudonym Daniel Easterman. Under the Easterman name, he has published fifteen novels, all international thrillers, many of them best-sellers. Among the best known are: The Seventh Sanctuary, The Ninth Buddha, and Midnight Comes at Noon. As Easterman, he has been translated into about fifteen languages. The most recent, The Sword, was published in 2007 and The Spear of Destiny appeared in spring 2009. As Jonathan Aycliffe, he has written a further eight novels, all ghost stories in the classic English tradition. Naomi’s Room has been optioned for film in Hollywood, and The Vanishment and The Matrix ...have recently been optioned by two British film companies. He has worked as a writing tutor as the Royal Literary... Fund Fellow at Newcastle University, where he now teaches a short course in creative writing (‘Writing in Genre’). He was for some years the editor of a US-based journal, The Middle East Quarterly. At present, he is working on a new novel, set in Ethiopia, and has plans for several others. He has also written a crime novel and a story of historical/present-day fiction, which await publication. In 1992, HarperCollins published a volume of his journalism under the title New Jerusalems: Islam, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Rushdie Affair. Academically, he first graduated with an M.A. in English from Trinity College, Dublin, followed by a second degree in Persian, Arabic, and Islamic Studies from Edinburgh and a PhD in Persian/Islamic Studies from Cambridge (King’s College). From 1979-80, he taught at Mohammed V University in Fez, Morocco, before taking up a post as lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle. In 1986, he was made Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at Durham University. He has published extensively on Islamic topics, contributing to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam in the Modern World, the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, journals, festschrifts, and books, and has himself written a number of books, including The Sources for Babi History and Doctrine, Rituals in Babism and Baha’ism, and the forthcoming The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism; he has also co-edited Islam in the Modern World. He has recently worked extensively on radical Islam in the UK for the think tank Policy Exchange, has written a full-scale report on Islamic hate literature found in Britain (The Hijacking of British Islam), and is now working on two projects for a different think tank, one on Islamic education, the other on shari’a courts. His study for Civitas of Muslim schools in the UK, Music, Chess and other Sins: Segregation, Integration, and Muslim Schools in Britain, is about to be published in hard copy and online, and is already attracting publicity in the UK national press. He has served as a member of the advisory council of the Centre for Social Cohesion, an offshoot of the think tank Civitas. In September 2005, he was appointed to the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University. That post terminated in June 2008. He also teaches a module in creative writing (genre fiction) at Newcastle University.
Skills: Arabic | Blogging | Copy Writing | Editing Skills | ... French | Journalistic writing | MS Power Point presentations | Other | Portuguese

Writer, translator (Swedish-English), researcher, tutor

I have recently finished my PhD thesis entitled 'The Significant Other: a Literary History of Elves' making me one of... the few professional elf scholars in the world. I am currently self-employed as a freelance translator (Swedish-English), writer and tutor. I am looking to take on more work and am particularly interested in more creative sorts of projects, but will consider all relevant offers. I can offer English literature and English language tuition and support in the Cardiff area and over the internet. I would also be interested in academic research projects relating to SF and fantasy fiction, gender studies, and myth and folklore. Please see my website for further details.
Skills: Blogging | Editing Skills | Swedish | Technical Writing... Skills | Windows Administration

Master in literary translation

Technical-scientific and literary translator

My working and studying experience can be divided into two main fields: informatics and humanistics.In the 2000, I got my diploma in informatics, and I could put into practice what I studied thanks to a job as webmaster for an informatic society based in Cagliari. In 2003, during the crisis of informatics job field, I decided to start with the university studies, and I entered at University of Cagliari into ...the school of Languages. So I got my Bachelor's degree in "Languages for Mediation" and my Master's degree in "Literary... translation". During the university I occasionally worked in many different ways, for example as a Police officer, archivist and english teacher. In the humanistics field I got the Bachelor's and the Master's degree in Languages that allowed me to work as english teacher and literaty translator of narrative stories from spanish to italian. In the informatics field, during the High school I learnt programming in Pascal, C, C++ and assembly. At the end of the hish school I started working as webmater, and I had the possibility to work and learn how to programme in Php, Asp and Html, using databases Mysql and Sql.
Skills: ASP | English | Italian | MS Excel | MS... Word | MySQL | PHP/MySQL | Spanish | Translation from English and Spanish into Italian

Technical Literary and Scientific Translator

I am a student who has just graduated from university and would love to adquire more experience and brush up... my English and Spanish skills by translating texts in both languages.

Literary translator from English to Serbian