Introduce yourself in this thread!

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Introduce yourself in this thread!

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!

Jairo

1) Who are you? My name is Jairo, I'm about get my college degree to become a teacher, even though I can be a translator, and that's why I'm here to learn more bout that, I love the translation field and the teaching field but I would like to handle both fields because the expirience that I expect to get is going to transform my life, I love languages by the way!
2) What do you do for a living? my family has a little business but is not related with my major, so I just study my major, and help other people to improve the language, by the way I speak spanish and english, but my mother tongue is spanish. so I hope your helping to improve my habilities, and nice to meet everyone
3) Your favorite Bruce Willis movie? My favorite movie is Live Free or Die Hard

Romores

Hello everybody! My name is Francesco! I am am Italian freelance translator with a huge passion for videogames, dubbing, programming and multimedia. Among a lot of other things...

Last year, after completing a training course during my final postgraduate months, I worked as an iOS developer in a tiny company, but I was not really satisfied with what I did there. So, as of early this year, I started dedicating myself to freelancing. Even if I did some translation jobs a few years ago when I was an undergrad, I'm still basically at the beginning of my career, and doing my best to establishing myself as a translator and localizer. I especially like working on videogame and software localization.

My favourite Bruce Willis movie ever might just be one between Armageddon (I don't know how many people can remember it!) and The Fifth Element!

richardmendes

Hi there,

Nice to meet you, My name is Richard, I'm a freelance translator from Brazil.

I started working back in April so I'm still quite new to translation,

Please be kind to me.