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Specializes in:
Cooking / Culinary
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Nutrition
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Printing & Publishing
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English to French - Standard rate: 0.13 EUR per word / 10 EUR per hour
Source text - English Following liberation, Edda volunteered for work as a nurse in a rest home for Dutch soldiers. She derived enormous satisfaction from the job. She felt she was repaying in some small measures the prodigious sacrifices the men in her care had made for all those who had lived under the pernicious dominion of Nazism. It was an epoch that would haunt her forever.
‘The war’, she said once, ‘left me with a deep knowledge of human suffering which I expect many other young people never know about. The things I saw during the occupation made me very realistic about life, and I’ve been that way ever since. ‘Do not,’ she added, ‘discount anything awful you heard or read about the Nazis. It’s worse than you could ever imagine. I came out of the war thankful to be alive, aware that human relationship are the most important thing of all, far more than wealth, food, luxury, careers, or anything you can mention’.
Translation - French Après la libération, Edda s’est portée volontaire pour travailler en tant qu’infirmière dans une maison de repos pour soldats néerlandais. Elle a puisé dans ce travail énormément de satisfaction. Elle sentait qu’elle payait en retour, dans une moindre mesure, les sacrifices prodigieux que les hommes placés sous ses soins avaient accomplis pour tous ceux qui avaient vécu sous la domination pernicieuse du Nazisme. Cette époque la poursuivrait à jamais.
‘La guerre’, avait-elle dit un jour, ‘m’a légué une conscience accrue de la souffrance humaine qui je l’espère ne sera jamais éprouvée par d’autres jeunes gens. Ce dont j’ai été le témoin pendant l’occupation m’a rendue très réaliste face à la vie et ne m’a plus jamais quittée. » Elle ajouta : « Ne sous-estimez jamais ce que vous avez entendu ou lu d’horrible au sujet des Nazis. C’est pire que ce que vous pourrez jamais imaginer. Je suis sortie de la guerre reconnaissante d’être en vie, consciente que les relations humaines sont ce qu’il y a de plus important au monde, beaucoup plus que la richesse, la nourriture, le luxe, la carrière ou tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer d’autre.
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Translation education
Bachelor's degree
Experience
Years of experience: 20. Registered at ProZ.com: May 2005.
2006 - University of Rennes – French Translation Diploma – (Generalist, Economics, Legal, articles on Health and Life Sciences) - France
2004 - GOVERNMENT – Ministry of Economy, Finances and Industry - Six months intern position as documentary researcher for the in-house terminological database Multiterm (Trados).
2004 - MIGRATION LAW – International Organization for Migration (IOM) – French translation of two teaching modules on migrants’ human rights and the participants’ handbook in connection with a project financed by the European Union in Morocco. (100 pages – 3 weeks – 17500 words) Page layout on Word and Power Point
2003 - TOURISM/ TRAVEL – Pierre & Vacances – Maeva - Within the framework of the consolidation of 300 technical documents, an average of 10 pages each, translation in English of the villages and sites description. Two-month in-house translation within the Marketing & Communication department in collaboration with a translation agency. Translation, proofreading, alignment, glossary (300 pages – 9 weeks – 90 000 words)
2003 - AUDIOVISUAL – SPPF (Société Civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France) - English translation of business and administrative documents to the attention of European neighbouring rights allocation companies. French translation of contract proposals (8-10 pages – 3000 words – 48h) Seven months in-house translation work.
2001 - 2002 - OIL AND NATURAL GAZ EXTRACTION – Coflexip Technip - Proofreading and page layout of technical documents written in English in relation with international engineers. Writing and proofreading in French and English of administrative and legal documents. Four months
1998 – 2000 Two years work for a Parisian based news agency as an assistant editor and translator.
1990 – 1997 Seven years of full university and professional immersion in the United-States working for a Gannett Corporation newspaper, The New York Times Company and the University of Missouri - Columbia.
1995 - University of Missouri School of Journalism – Bachelor of Journalism – Columbia - United-States
1990 - French High School Diploma – French, Philosophy, German, English, Spanish (Victor Duruy High School – Paris)
Keywords: Life Sciences, Health, Sciences de la vie, Santé, Nutrition
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