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Member since Oct '06

Working languages:
English to Portuguese
French to Portuguese
Portuguese to English
French to English

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Nadia Morais
Accuracy and timeliness guaranteed!

Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Local time: 09:38 WET (GMT+0)

Native in: Portuguese Native in Portuguese

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EDUCATION

BA(Hons) Journalism
Napier University
Edinburgh, UK

Modern literature and Foreign Languages (minor)
Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon
Portugal

Translation
British Council
Lisbon, Portugal

English
British Council, Lisbon, Portugal
CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English)

French
Alliance Française, Lisbon, Portugal
DELF, DALF, DL

Italian
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages, Edinburgh, UK
Instituto de Cultura Italiana, Lisbon, Portugal
(Advanced Level)

Spanish
Instituto Cervantes, Lisbon, Portugal
(Intermediate level)

German
Goethe Institut, Lisbon, Portugal
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages, UK
(Intermediate Level)

Japanese
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Applied Languages
(Basic Level)


DIPLOMAS

DipTrans, Institute of Linguists, London, UK

1st Prize in the Times Feature Writing competition, Edinburgh, UK


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IN TRANSLATION


Industry/Technology:

INPRINTING (IT) - 2007 - present - Instruction manuals
DMAROTE (UK) - 2007 - Instruction Manuals
NOVA SOTECMA (Angola) – 2003 – present – Instruction manuals, website
GREEN CRESCENT (US) – 2004 – Instruction manuals

Health:

HALTE-SIDA (Congo) – 2003 – website
CYSTIC FIBROSIS WORLDWIDE (US) – 2003–present – features (volunteering)
NATURKINDA (Portugal) – 2005/2007 – news on health care
HENNING & BOCHERT (Germany) – 2006 – Instruction manuals for medical devices ADELPHI (UK) – 2007 – Forum on psychiatric diseases

Journalism

ÁFRICA TODAY (Portugal and Angola)– 2007-present – Reporter and translator (bilingual magazine)
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS – 2005-2007 – Freelance reporter for sports, features
JORNAL TAL&QUAL (Portugal) – 2002 – 2005 – translation of quizzes
JORNAL PÚBLICO (Portugal) – 2004 – translation of press releases
RTP2 (Portugal) – 2005 – Translation of interviews, art reviews

Economy, Business

NEWSBASE (UK) - 2006 - present -- Freelance reporter and translator for oil&gas industry and environmental monitor
ECOLE ARGENTINA (Argentina)- 2008 -- translation of business projects
LA NOTA (Colombia) - 2007-present -- news in various languages, translation of business-related articles

Politics, Education

CROSSROADS WOMEN (US) – 2003 – letters and legal documents
RUNTIME REVOLUTION (UK) – 2006/2007 – voice over, scripts and subtitling for language-learning software (English and Portuguese)
AMERICAN PIE (UK) – 2007 – transcribing, translating and subtitling audio files from Brazilian Portuguese into English
TRADULINGUA (Poland) – 2007 – legal documents on European educations models
TOGO-FOCUS (France) – 2007 – news on the political situation in Togo

Engineering, Environment

ISA (Portugal) -- interpreting in Fire Paradox conferences, translating news articles on forestry and subtitling films
Duplo.Vê (Portugal) -- Subtitling TV series

This user has earned KudoZ points by helping other translators with PRO-level terms. Click point total(s) to see term translations provided.

Total pts earned: 170
PRO-level pts: 162


Top languages (PRO)
English to Portuguese75
Portuguese to English68
French to English8
Portuguese4
English to Spanish4
Pts in 1 more pair >
Top general fields (PRO)
Tech/Engineering44
Other43
Bus/Financial28
Medical15
Science12
Pts in 3 more flds >
Top specific fields (PRO)
Accounting12
Education / Pedagogy11
Medical (general)11
Law (general)8
Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng8
Environment & Ecology8
Medical: Health Care8
Pts in 21 more flds >

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This user has reported completing projects in the following job categories, language pairs, and fields.

Project History Summary
Total projects4
With client feedback0
Corroborated0
0 positive (0 entries)
positive0
neutral0
negative0

Job type
Translation4
Language pairs
English to Portuguese3
French to Portuguese1
Specialty fields
Medical: Health Care2
Other fields
Mechanics / Mech Engineering1
Law (general)1
Keywords: Translating since 1999 Translation, interpreting, subtitling, proofreading Instruction manuals, articles, websites, letters, legal documents, Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Edinburgh, Technical, Mechanical, Medicine, Literature, Art, Photography, Nutrition, Scotland, Humanities, Journalism, French, English, United Kingdom, Voice-Over, Interpreting, Photography, UK, European Portuguese, Media, Communications, Software, Medical, Health Care, Social Sciences, conference interpreter, Lisbon



Profile last updated
Nov 15