English mother tongue, with German and French as second languages. I live in South West France, currently working freelance as a tutor, translator, proofreader, researcher and artisan. My areas of specialisation are education; popular culture; building and decorating, form-filling, menus and instruction manuals; proofreading; English etymology.

The breadth of my education and work experience gives me the ability and to read many different contexts and styles. I am good at deciphering manuscripts, financial reports, academic works, poetry, novels and biographies. I specialise in editing British English texts to reflect the writer's intentions in the fields of education, financial services and popular culture.

MA University of London, BA (hons) Coventry University.
UK qualified lecturer in Media and Communication studies,
In 1990/92 tutor for English language and business skills, at Foleshill Women's Training, Coventry, UK. This was an organisation for Asian women who were unable to attend or felt uncomfortable visiting a college of FE. I have a wide range of transferable skills, good IT, internet, word processing and research.

Starting at 25€ per hour for editing, I charge differing amounts according to the level of difficulty, urgency and source material. For translations my rate is 0.08€ per source word for simple documents.