Member since May '11

Working languages:
English to Portuguese
Spanish to Portuguese
French to Portuguese
Portuguese to English
Portuguese to Spanish

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Teresa Bettencourt
Certified PRO 9 clients would work again
Specialising in Legal and EU affairs

Portugal
Local time: 15:55 WET (GMT+0)

Native in: Portuguese , Spanish Native in Spanish
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Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter
Data security Created by Evelio Clavel-Rosales This person has a SecurePRO™ card. View now.
Affiliations This person is not affiliated with any business or Blue Board record at ProZ.com.
Services Editing/proofreading, Voiceover (dubbing), Subtitling, AI + Human review (MT post-editing) , Transcription, Training, Native speaker conversation, AI training, Translation, Interpreting, Transcreation
Expertise
Specializes in:
Law (general)Law: Contract(s)
International Org/Dev/CoopGovernment / Politics
Medical (general)Medical: Dentistry
FisheriesBusiness/Commerce (general)
EconomicsFinance (general)

Rates
General rate: 0.05 EUR per word / 20 EUR per hour

All accepted currencies Euro (eur)
KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 114, Questions answered: 52
Blue Board entries made by this user  4 entries

Payment methods accepted Wire transfer | Send a payment via ProZ*Pay
Translation education Bachelor's degree - ISLA - Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração
Experience Years of experience: 34. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2011. Became a member: May 2011.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s)
Credentials English to Portuguese (Instituto Superior de Linguas e Administração , verified)
French to Portuguese (Instituto Superior de Linguas e Administração , verified)
Spanish to Portuguese (Instituto Cervantes, verified)
Memberships JTP
TeamsPhrase Lab
Software Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Aegisub, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Docs, Google Sheets, memoQ, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Subtitle Edit, Trados Studio, Wordfast, Xbench, XTM
Professional practices Teresa Bettencourt endorses ProZ.com's Professional Guidelines.
Bio

Translator, reviser and language consultant with over 30 years of experience, working from English, French and Spanish into European Portuguese, and from Portuguese into English.

Main areas

  • EU institutions since 2013, through agencies: post-editing for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation and EU legislation summaries for EUR-Lex
  • Legal reports for FAO, court judgments and wills from Luxembourg
  • Medical and dental content
  • Subtitling, software and website localisation
  • E-commerce and marketing copy with strict character limits
  • Quality review using the LISA QA model

Tools: Trados Studio, memoQ, Phrase, XTM Cloud and Xbench.

Native speaker of Portuguese and Spanish, based in Portugal.

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: 114
(All PRO level)

Top languages (PRO)
English to Portuguese68
Portuguese to English22
Spanish to Portuguese12
French to Portuguese12
Top general fields (PRO)
Other28
Tech/Engineering24
Medical20
Law/Patents20
Bus/Financial10
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Top specific fields (PRO)
Medical (general)20
Construction / Civil Engineering16
Furniture / Household Appliances12
Nutrition8
Business/Commerce (general)8
Other8
Insurance6
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Profile last updated
Oct 26