Hi! let me introduce myself: my name is Astrid van Beek and I love languages. I live near Iowa City, IA and was born in the Netherlands. I started translating on a regular basis in 2004, while I had a day-job as a trainer/coach/consultant for groups, finding a lot of my materials in other languages, which I used to translated myself because no Dutch version was available. These translations were noticed more and more by colleagues and soon I started to translate 'per request'. Some of the articles I translated have been used in training manuals and published in reference brochures.



I started exploring the possibility of becoming a full time translator and after some months learning my way around job-sites and private customers, I finally found some agencies to join up with and my full time translator adventure began.. In 2005 I relocated to the USA and kept doing what I do best: Translating and Designing
Since a full-time translator needs a lot of support and back-up, my husband joined me in my efforts and together we are here to offer our services to all our -current and prospective - customers.