Working languages:
Slovenian to Italian
English to Italian
Italian to English

Alice Zuzek
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Sezana, Sezana, Slovenia
Local time: 05:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: Italian Native in Italian
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I am a native Italian translator with a University degree in Translation and Interpreting. I have studied languages and linguistics since a young age. Aside my own language, I am competent in English and Slovenian and can deal nicely with Spanish. I can read German.

My highest priority at the moment, second only to my daughter, is to acquire extra skills and knowledge in the Translation industry. I am already managing my own team of translators.

On top of my skills as translator (language competence, translation awareness and techniques, attention to details), I have a passion for audio/video formats and understand very well subtitling related issues.

ME and LANGUAGE PAIRS

My name is Alice and I am a native Italian qualified translator with a Slovenian native background.
My husband, who is a linguist and works with me, is native English (UK). I mainly translate out of English, Slovenian and occasionally Spanish into Italian and out of Italian and Slovenian into English.
SL>ENG
SL>IT
ENG<>IT
I have a degree in Translation and Interpreting. I studied English as first language and Slovenian as second language. Slovenian is also the language I used to speak as a child (bilingual family).

Slovenian:
I come from a bilingual Italian/Slovenian family (my father and his parents speak both languages, whereas my mother only speaks Italian). I was brought up in a Slovenian dialect environment (mostly grandparents) and proper Slovenian language use (primary school, my father and proximity of Slovenia). I lost a big deal of my chances with this language when my parents separated and I spent a consistent period away from my father; after that it was just awkward to speak that language with him again. I have taken Slovenian on board when I entered the school for interpreters and translators. The current situation is that I can deal with the language in a way that no non-native ever could, but am far from being native myself.

English:
English is the language that I have studied the longest and it's the language of my new family: my partner Tom, from Folkestone, UK, and our daughter Helena. Tom is a linguist and a capable translator. We've lived and worked for 3 years in England. I simply feel that English is part of me and, as a matter of fact, there is hardly anything I wouldn't be able to get through in an accurate and correct way.


SERVICES:
TRANSLATION, PROOFREADING, TRANSCRIPTION, COPYWRITING, CODING, SUBTITLING. INTERPRETING.


TAT: max 2000 words per day (as an individual translator)

FIELDS: I can work in a number of fields which I believe it is not necessary to list (Tourism, Business correspondence etc) and am a good terminology researcher. However, there are some fields where extra training or experience is necessary and are worth mentioning: I am talented in creative writing (Marketing, copywriting); I have a good knowledge of audio-video equipment, finance, contracts, philosophy of language and existence (ontology) plus anthropology and Ethnology, Linguistics (morphology, phonology and phonetic, grammar). I had some experience in Biological Engineering and Medical technology.

Italian native, resident Citizen.

CV

Studies:__________________________________________________________________________________
11/2004 - 10/2008
degree in Translation and Interpreting
:Translation and Interpreting, cross culture communication
Translation-Interpreting theories and practice
first language-English, second language-Slovenian, third language Spanish;
Italian grammar; English-Slovenian-Italian literature;
politics, economics, EU studies;
linguistics; anthropology.
specific modules in translation:
business, current affairs, social science, EU policies, tourism, literature.
University of Trieste: School of Modern Languages for Translators and Interpreters SSLMIT, Italy

Work experience

In 2010/2011 I taught English in the primary school Da feltre in Ronchi dei Legionari (GO) Italy and worked as a freelance translator with VAT .
Now I work as a translator full-time and I manage my own team of translators.
(www.savvytranslation.com)

09/11/2007 - 23/11/2009

Tour Coordinator at Travelbound, Brighton, UK
www.travelbound.co.uk

Freelance translator, no VAT

16/04/2007 - 06/06/2007
Occupation or position held
Translator on a University placement
Main activities and responsibilities
Translating and proof-reading from English and Slovenian into Italian
Name and address of employer EUROLOGOS;
via XXX Ottobre 4, 34 122 Trieste(TS), Italy;

Type of business or sector
Translation and Interpreting services

Dates 03/2007 - 04/2007
Occupation or position held English Teacher
Main activities and responsibilities Intensive English course for beginners (level A1/A2);
teaching grammar and police related material in English.
Name of employer
Italian Defence Minister
Type of business or sector
Police School

Dates 2005 - 2007
Occupation or position held
Freelance Translator/Interpreter
Main activities and responsibilities
Translating business letters and school assignments for private clients.
Type of business or sector
Translation

Dates 2000 - 2002
Occupation or position held
Assistant to Sport's Instructor
Main activities and responsibilities
Helping the instructor with his courses for children; karate in winter, canoeing in summer
Name and address of employer
Karate Club Monfalcone
Type of business or sector
Sport






MY TEAM
I also collaborate with a team of native translators who only translate into their native language and are
specialised in various fields. Italian, English, Slovenian, Russian, Spanish, German, French are our main working languages, but we can also provide for other languages (Romanian and Indonesian among others).
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Profile last updated
Oct 31, 2015