ProZ.com global directory of translation services
 The translation workplace
Dynamic content (javascript) disabled in this profile. FAQ | Settings...

Member since Apr '07

Audio Greeting

Working languages:
English to Romanian
Romanian to English
English (monolingual)
Romanian (monolingual)
French to Romanian

elvira_d
Russian to Romanian
Valentin Cirdei
English to Romanian
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Maria Diaconu
English to Romanian
Ioana Costache
Language degrees, 9 years' experience

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
Local time: 21:11 EET (GMT+2)

Native in: Romanian Native in Romanian
Willingness
to Work Again

3 Positive entries

User message
The original is unfaithful to the translation. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Account type Freelancer, Identity Verified Verified member
Services Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, Website localization, Voiceover (dubbing), Transcription, Training
Expertise
Specializes in:
Education / PedagogyIdioms / Maxims / Sayings
International Org/Dev/CoopLinguistics
Marketing / Market ResearchPoetry & Literature

KudoZ activity Questions answered: 312, Questions asked: 13 Easy / 108 PRO, PRO-level points: 639
Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 17

Translation education OTHER-University of Oxford
Experience Years of translation experience: 9. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2003. Became a member: Apr 2007.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s)
Credentials Romanian to English (Romanian Ministry of Justice, verified)
English to Romanian (Romanian Ministry of Justice, verified)
English (Cambridge University (ESOL Examinations, External, Misc.), verified)
English to Romanian (Romanian Ministry of Culture - Central Commission for Granting Translator Certificates, verified)
English to Romanian (Asociatia Traducatorilor din Romania, verified)


Memberships ITI, The Philological Society, BASEES, IAFL, ATR
Software Across, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Dreamweaver, FrameMaker, Frontpage, Indesign, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Multilizer, Adobe Audition 3, Sony SoundForge 9, Passolo, Powerpoint, QuarkXPress, SDL TRADOS, Wordfast
Website http://www.romanianenglishtranslation.com
CV/Resume English (PDF)
Conference participation Conference attended
Professional practices Ioana Costache endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines.
About me

Services I provide:

Translation, proofreading, and conference interpreting, from/into Romanian/English. Areas of competence: legal (trade law, human rights, minority rights, administrative), business, marketing (market research, qualitative reports, quantitative reports), EU, governance, community development, Phare, pharma (marketing-related), medical (clinical trial protocols, informed consent), linguistics, fiction, nonfiction, science (geography, geology, astronomy, zoology), travel guides.

Translation from French and Spanish into Romanian and English (linguistics, philology).
Transcription with or without translation (English, Romanian).
Revision, proofeeading, reviewing, and website localization (into Romanian only).
Glossary compilation.


To project managers, whom it might concern

If considering me for a job, please note that the post-translation services that I provide are defined as follows (according to BS EN 15038:2006):

REVISION = examining a translation for its suitability for the agreed purpose, comparing the source and target texts and recommending corrective measures;

PROOFREADING = checking of proofs before publishing;

REVIEWING = examining a target text for its suitability for the agreed purpose and respect for the conventions of the domain to which it belongs and recommending corrective measures.

I'm glad to be of service, and I will do my best to ensure your clients get value for money. However, please be prepared to answer LOTS of questions and to put up with my punctiliousness. I can also be quite headstrong and opinionate, especially where language is concerned.
I appreciate job-specific glossaries, reference materials, and any other input on your side; in turn, I'm happy to contribute any reference material or information that I have and might be relevant, as long as I'm not breaching other clients' confidentiality.
Most importantly, your feedback is always welcome!

This being said, I look forward to working with you on interesting and rewarding projects.

Yours,

Ioana


More about me:

- DPhil student, Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty, University of Oxford (recipient of ORSAS award and Clarendon bursary);
- DG SCIC-certified teacher of conference interpreting - 2006;
- M.St. Distinction (Oxon) in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology - 2005;
- recipient of OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship 2004-2005;
- MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT, BA in Philology (Major: English, Minor: Romanian), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest;
- Grand Prize awarded by the Romanian Academy & Romanian National UNESCO Committee for Cultural Development in the national translation contest organized in 2002 - "I.L. Caragiale" year (see section Premiile FNSA / Concursuri)

A member of The Romanian Translators' Association, The British Association for Slavonic and East-European Studies, The Philological Society, the University of Oxford's Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, the International Association of Forensic Linguists, the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

Recent projects: 2009

My most recent translation is The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, by Spencer Wells, of Genographic Project fame. The GORGEOUS Romanian edition was published by Editura CD Press. CD Press specialize in geography, biology, Earth sciences and life sciences generally, and they do a great job of opening these fields to a young audience. Spencer Wells's book, though, is aimed at a wider readership, and it is the publisher's way of celebrating Darwin year.

wells


Other projects: 2007

Luke Rhinehart, The Search for the Dice Man, Romanian edition entitled Întoarcerea Omului Zar.
Starting with the Trinity 2007 issue, I proofread the Christ Church Library Newsletter. It's great reading!
THE wildlife encyclopedia. I translated about a fifth of this fascinating book. You can count on me for any information about amphibians and fish :) DK's Animal (by David Burnie, ed.), Romanian edition by RAO publishers, entitled Animale. Ghid vizual complet al lumii salbatice
Smaller projects were the four DK travel guides that I translated - Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Paris.
Romanian versions: Amsterdam, Londra, Madrid, Paris

Other projects: 2006

I pride myself on having translated Dorling Kindersley's Smithsonian Earth
(joint translation with Dana Ligia Ilin, see also here). That was quite a project, and a labour of love.

For a more detailed list of my translation projects, please see my CV.size +1>

Other projects: 2005

In 2005 I translated Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin's Power of Simplicity and I co-authored a multimedia "Romanian - English Phrasebook" with Lidia Cotea, who worked on the Romanian - French combination and co-ordinated the Multimedia Series.

Already on the market:
"Romanian - French Phrasebook"
"Romanian - English Phrasebook"
"Romanian - Italian Phrasebook"
"Romanian - Spanish Phrasebook"
"Romanian - Portuguese Phrasebook"
"Romanian - German Phrasebook"

Up and coming in the Multimedia Series:
"Romanian - Hungarian Phrasebook"
For more info, see here


Please note that right now I'm doing postgraduate research, which is sure to affect my availability. However, I'm open to negotiation on a project-by-project basis :)


Please hit the 'Personal' tab to see my CAT tools!
And here's a visual guide to the meaning of (a translator's) life...

For various linguistic resources, other than the ones shown below, please see the Resources section. Thank you!





 Search: 
Dictionary.comThesaurus.comReference.comAll Referencethe Web
 for
 
 


Powered by Inttranews, specialized multilingual news service for interpreters, translators and linguists






Keywords: English, Romanian, French, translation, conference interpreting, proofreading, proofchecking, editing, transcription, transcript, transcripts, business law, contract law, human rights, minority rights, Roma rights, marginalised groups, marginalized groups, governance, EU, European Parliament, marketing, market research, pharma, linguistics, philology, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, Christ Church library newsletter, Christ Church library newsletters, travel guide, travel guides, tourism, geography, geology, astronomy, zoology, community development, engleza, romana, franceza, traducere, traduceri, interpretariat de conferinta, corectura, revizie, engleza de afaceri, engleza juridica, administratie, drept administrativ, contracte, drepturile minoritatilor, drepturile omului, grupuri marginalizate, UE, Uniunea Europeana, cercetare de piata, farma, farmaceutice, lingvistica, filologie, literatura, beletristica, proza, poezie, geografie, geologie, astronomie, zoologie, ghid turistic, ghiduri turistice, turism, dezvoltare comunitara, français, francais, roumain, anglais, traduction, linguistique, philologie, localizare, localization



More translators and interpreters: English to Romanian - Romanian to English   More language pairs