I guess I heard the world calling at an early age, long before I began my studies in Communication Science, with a specialisation in journalism. After graduation, I started my career as a writer for magazines covering fields such as the environment, quality management, tourism, culture and sports. That was also my most intense time of travelling.

Then I became a freelance editor for a big publisher. I worked mostly on travel guides, of course! Parallel to my first contact with the language industry, I felt the need to ‘formalise’ all the English that I had learnt in my wanderings around the world. So I enrolled in English Studies: Language, Literature and Culture.

Translating took shape as my profession as I delved into the study of English, and it gradually became the bulk of my assignments as a freelancer. Mostly guidebooks, why not? I had the travel background, the language knowledge and the writer’s touch.

More recently, my scope has widened to encompass fields related to the travel experience, such as nature, geography, history, art, culture, gastronomy, folklore, music, etc. I have also added one of my passions, water sports, to my professional palette, creating and translating content for specialised websites.

My short-term goals? I would like to finish my further studies, supplement my translation skills by using CAT tools and, above all, witness how the world gets better.

Daniel Odevaine