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Working languages: English to Spanish
French to Spanish
Italian to Spanish
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Freelancer,  Verified member | | Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, Subtitling | | Specializes in: | | Accounting | Cooking / Culinary | | Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs |
| Also works in: | | Finance (general) | Nutrition | | Food & Dairy | Tourism & Travel |
More Less | | PRO-level points: 12, Questions answered: 21, Questions asked: 1 | Sample translations submitted: 1 | English to Spanish: Coffee crisis | Source text - English
For 19th-century explorers, the Kagera region was in the heart of Africa, between the continent's great lakes, where Livingstone and other adventurers searched for the source of the Nile. Today, Kagera is the north-west tip of Tanzania, remote and isolated between the Rwanda Mountains and Lake Victoria. In the past decades, the people there have had their share of misery. In the 1980s, a well-meant development project to increase the fish in Lake Victoria ruined the lake's delicate ecological balance and led to endemic insect plagues gravely affecting agriculture in the region. And in the ensuing years, world market prices for coffee, Kagera's only cash crop, plunged to record lows, reducing farmers' income to less than a dollar a day, far below the poverty line. The consequences of the lack of income are not difficult to guess: no education, no health facilities, not even food for the family. | Translation - Spanish
Para los exploradores del siglo XIX Kagera era el corazón de África: una región situada entre los grandes lagos de un continente misterioso donde aventureros de la talla de Livingstone buscaban las fuentes del Nilo. Hoy en día Kagera no es más que el extremo noroeste de Tanzania: una región remota y aislada entre las montañas de Ruanda y el lago Victoria. Las últimas décadas han traído un rosario de desgracias para los habitantes de esta parte del mundo. En la década de 1980 un proyecto de ayuda al desarrollo que pretendía aumentar el número de peces en el lago Victoria mandó al traste el delicado equilibrio del ecosistema. Las intenciones eran buenas pero el resultado fueron plagas de insectos que se volvieron endémicas y perjudicaron gravemente la agricultura de la región. Poco después, el precio del café en el mercado internacional se desplomó y, sin el sustento de su único producto de exportación, los agricultores de Kagera vieron sus ingresos reducidos a menos de un dólar por día, muy por debajo del umbral de la pobreza. Las consecuencias de esta situación son obvias: ni educación, ni sanidad ni simplemente comida. |
More Less | | Cocina EN-ES, Cocina FR-ES, general | | Master's degree - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) | | Years of translation experience: 8. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2007. Became a member: Jun 2008. | | N/A | French to Spanish (U. Pompeu Fabra)
English to Spanish (U. Pompeu Fabra)
French to Spanish (École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs)
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SDL Trados Studio – Part II (Intermediate) | | About me Trained conference interpreter and translator from English, French and Italian into Spanish.
Certified by the Spanish Department of Foreign Affairs for English and Spanish.
My clients would tell you that I am:
- accurate
- reliable
- aware of the cultural and social context
- a lively speaker
- self-motivated and resilient
You care enough about your text to find a good translator, I take care to give you a good translation. | This user has earned KudoZ points by helping other translators with PRO-level terms. Click point total(s) to see term translations provided.
Total pts earned: 16
PRO-level pts: 12
| | Top languages (PRO) | | English to Spanish | 8 | | Italian to Spanish | 4 | | Top general field (PRO) | | Other | 12 | | Top specific field (PRO) | | Business/Commerce (general) | 4 | | General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | 4 | | Cooking / Culinary | 4 |
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