Introduce yourself in this thread!

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Introduce yourself in this thread!

LooshLuz

cariobana and another Brazilian! I am surprised there are quite a few of us!

LooshLuz

ClaudiaBefu Hi Claudia I really liked the free MOOC on futurelearn called Start Writing Fiction. One of the Tutors was Alex Garland author of The Beach and Ex-machina. I followed it two years ago and I have been writing a novel ever since (need to finish it!!). There is actually a translation course there now I was following but they have since changed their system, now you can only follow a course for free for a few weeks, before it was at your own pace.

LooshLuz

DmitrySavin You would have enjoyed the Goth weekend in Whitby last weekend, it was fab and the costumes were really elaborate. There was a bloke I could swear was Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean and another dressed as Thranduil!

LooshLuz

RenataFTorres Hi Renata I have been translating for a long time but only last year I started doing QC which led me to the subtitles/dubbing department of the same agency and I love it to bits. I am due to start a course in Brazil (through the distance as I live in London) for dubbing, they do a subtitle one as well, and gaming. Google a school called Brasillis.

RenataFTorres

LooshLuz I know the school. Is the course taught by Paulo Noriega? I've met him in person and he's the sweetest guy! He told me last December he would soon start teachind dubbing at Brasillis. You should check out his blog, Traduzindo a Dublagem. It offers some cools insights into dubbing. www.traduzindoadublagem.com

LooshLuz

RenataFTorres Ah ok thank you I'll do.

erikasbat

Dmitry thanks!!

eleonorang

Welcome, LooshLuz ! A cookie to you for this rich introduction

Roisin1976

I translate from English to Irish. I have done it for the past 15 years.

Roisin1976

Roisin1976 I have diplomas in: French, Irish, History and Archaeology.

LooshLuz

Fascinating, Roisin, I love Celtic languages!

Roisin1976

Celtic languages are very rich in phrases and literature.
One of the best writers in the Irish Language Liam Ó Muirthile passed away a couple of days ago.
He will be sadly missed in the Irish Langauge community.

LooshLuz

I have a History connection too, I work for Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that administers 5 Palaces for the English Crown, I run activities for schools and families and work with object handling, cataloguing and conservation. Thank you for this information I will look him up. I am always interested to know more about Ireland.

Maelle

Hi everyone, I'm Maëlle, an English > French translator specialized in video games, museology and elearning. I'm also trying to learn some Dutch.
As to Bruce Willis, it's too hard to choose between Die Hard and the 5th Element (back to when Luc Besson could still make great movies)...

Dmitry

Maelle Welcome to the community @Maelle! Lovely to have you here! 5th Element was awesome! Loved it when I was a teenager

Gary Oldman was also awesome in it

zero stones

I'm curious: what kind of games do you normally play and what kind of game do you localize?

Maelle

@Dmitry Thanks!
Also loved it so when I was a kid, so it's got that nostalgic feel... Indeed, Oldman was great, too bad we don't often get to see vilains like him!

I usually play RPGs, point & clicks and adventure games, but for now I mostly localized small social games (you know, those written in bad English... ). Hope to expend my portfolio of clients and find more interesting games!

Marisol

Dear colleagues,

I am an official translator accredited by the Brazilian government to translate documents written in English/Spanish/Portuguese. Presently, I am a member of ATP MINAS, ABRATES and SINTRA. I hold a BA in Portuguese-English (UFRJ), an extension course in English translation (PUC-RJ) and a graduate course in both Spanish Translation & Interpreting (UGF), with some experience in the English-Spanish booths of Universidad de Salamanca. I specialize in IT, Telecom, Legal, Oil&Gas, HR and Ecology, but as a sworn translator, I must translate all types of documents. I advocate the use of digital certificates in sworn translations, which is something new in Brazil. National and international lecturer. 32 years in the translation industry. Twelve on-line courses mainly aimed at Brazilian sworn translators.

My personal webpage: Webpage for sworn translation jobs - ENG/SPA/PT
My corporate webpage: Universus Traduções' webpage -ENG/SPA/PT
My channel in YouTube (only PT-BR): a channel with basic info on Brazilian sworn translations - ONLY PT-BR

eleonorang

A big belated welcome @Marisol and @Maelle

NancyMuhammed

Greetings everyone!
I am Nancy Muhammed, from Egypt. I am a writer and a translator specialized in translating literature. I help spreading foreign cultures between Arab readers in addition to boosting the fame of my native fellow writers into the English speaking world.
So far, and as a result of years of hard work and determination, I have a book published, another on its way and another two planned.. just waiting for a sponsoring publishing house!

Favourite Readings: History, geography, fantasy, and philosophy!
Favourite movies: Evreything concerned with magical lands and other universes!

Nice to meet everyone! ~bows~

Dmitry

NancyMuhammed Welcome to the forum, Nancy! Feel free to look around and don't hesitate to start new threads!

welcome

NancyMuhammed I have a book published, another on its way and another two planned.. just waiting for a sponsoring publishing house!

Wow! 4 books! That's amazing, Nancy! Congratulations! So, do you pitch your translation services to authors and then look for publishing houses in your country who'd like to publish a translation?

NancyMuhammed

Thanks for the welcome, Dmitry! it is nice to meet everyone and I'm still getting to know my way around!

Dmitry Wow! 4 books! That's amazing, Nancy! Congratulations! So, do you pitch your translation services to authors and then look for publishing houses in your country who'd like to publish a translation?

In the first two books it was the publishing house who recruited me via Translators Cafe, when they likes the first book, they sent me the next. The other two books are more like personal projects I would love to see translated into Arabic. So it was me approaching publishing houses, they have three methods just like contracting with authors:
1) The translator pays all the fees and gets a certain percent of the royalties, generally larger than the publishing house's percentage.
2) Pay half the fees and split the royalties with the publishing house.
3) This one I prefer the most, where the translation is "sold" to the publishing house for a certain amount of money.

Right now I am also trying to find foreign publishing houses that would like to publish Arabic works translated into English. So that will be the plan for next year!