Member since Oct '06
Working languages:English to Portuguese
French to Portuguese
Portuguese to English
French to English
Local time
13:11 WEST (GMT+1)
|  Nadia Morais
Accuracy and timeliness guaranteed!
Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal / Native in: Portuguese  |  Contact:   
Pay: PayPal accepted
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| | Because Words Matter | | | Freelancer,  Verified member | | | Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, Website localization, Software localization, Voiceover (dubbing), Subtitling, Transcription, Desktop publishing |  | | Specializes in: | | Business/Commerce (general) | Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) | Media / Multimedia | | Poetry & Literature | Linguistics | | Finance (general) | Economics | | Cinema, Film, TV, Drama | Journalism |
| Also works in: | | Advertising / Public Relations | Government / Politics | | International Org/Dev/Coop | Internet, e-Commerce | | Investment / Securities | Marketing / Market Research | | Medical: Pharmaceuticals | Medical: Instruments | | Medical: Health Care | Medical (general) | | Petroleum Eng/Sci | Computers (general) | | Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | Manufacturing | | Geography | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Anthropology | Automotive / Cars & Trucks | | Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng | Computers: Hardware | | Computers: Software | Construction / Civil Engineering | | Cooking / Culinary | Electronics / Elect Eng | | Energy / Power Generation | Engineering (general) | | Engineering: Industrial | Environment & Ecology | | Forestry / Wood / Timber | Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs |
| | | English to Portuguese - Standard rate: 0.06 GBP per word / 7 GBP per hour
| | | Questions answered: 118, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 2 PRO, PRO-level points: 162 | | | Sample translations submitted: 2| Portuguese to English: Website | Source text - Portuguese
www.novasotecma.com | Translation - English
www.novasotecma.com | | English to Portuguese: Website | Source text - English
www.novasotecma.com
Translated website for Angola-based company dedicated to industry
portuguese>english | Translation - Portuguese
www.novasotecma.com
Translated website for Angola-based company dedicated to industry
portuguese>english |
| | | OTHER-Institute of Linguists | | | Years of translation experience: 9. Registered at ProZ.com: Feb 2004. Became a member: Oct 2006. | | N/A | | | English to Portuguese (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
Portuguese to English (University of Lisbon)
French to Portuguese (Alliance Française, Lisbon)
| | | N/A | | | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Frontpage, Indesign, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Other CAT tool, Pagemaker, Passolo, Powerpoint, QuarkXPress, SDL TRADOS, SDLX, Wordfast | | |  CV/Resume | | About me
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
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This user has reported completing projects in the following job categories, language pairs, and fields.
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| Total projects | 4 | | With client feedback | 0 | | Corroborated | 0 | | | 0 positive (0 entries) |  positive | 0 |  neutral | 0 |  negative | 0 |
| Job type | | Translation | 4 | | | Language pairs | | English to Portuguese | 3 | | French to Portuguese | 1 | | | Specialty fields | | Medical: Health Care | 2 | | | Other fields | | Mechanics / Mech Engineering | 1 | | Law (general) | 1 |
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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
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