🧑‍💻 I'm a freelance translator, graduate of the Master's Degree in Specialized Translation and Interpretation at Inalco (Paris, France), with the French-English-Russian-German language combination. I've also worked one year in an agency.

🪆 Although my first love is Russian literature and its complexity, I decided to dedicate myself to translation. My attention to detail honed by training with professional translators and my passion for text stimulated by my more literary and cultural academic background allow me great versatility, while remaining efficient and accurate.

🔎 About me... I'm curious, passionate about culture in all its forms, an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, and a bit of a cook. I liven up my daily life by volunteering to organize cultural events and providing administrative assistance to associations.

🧑‍🎓 It was difficult for me to wait until graduation to take my first steps into professional translation... so I set up my own business alongside my studies and student job. I was able to get a few translation and proofreading assignments that added to my experience.

👔 I'm open to translation and localization assignments, particularly in the following fields: audiovisual, culture, tourism, fashion/lifestyle, marketing, but also legal, institutional and medical.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Taste for writing content, both creative and informative
- Insatiable curiosity
- Rigor and meticulousness in data processing and management
- Meticulous respect for typographic standards and deadlines
- Stylistically polished, elegant, versatile and domain-specific
- Expertise in Russian and English cultures
- Trained in Trados, Wordfast, MemoQ, OmegaT, Memsource, Aegisub, Subtitles Edit, XBench, Antidote, Office suite

💼 At the moment?
- I translate articles for Vogue, AD, GQ and Vanity Fair.
- I deliver translation regularly for agencies, mainly legal and technical.
- I'm preparing editorial projects (it's top secret!)

And before that?
- I have subtitled for screenings in Lyon as well as festivals (Underground Film Festival of Marseille, International Festival of Asian Cinema in Vesoul)
- I supervised the localization of Le Monde Diplomatique's international websites, translated for the French press as well as for publishing.
- I have translated for archivists' magazines and a contemporary art exhibition.

Léo Duca