This summer I passed the DPSI (Diploma in Public Service Interpreting, law path) with excellent grades. I studied at the Middlesex University, London, UK. It is the gold standard diploma valid in England and Wales that enables you to translate and interpret in legal setting: courts, tribunals, police stations for example. I am qualified in French to English and English to French.

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In 2020, 2022 and 2023, I took the very prestigious examinations of French translators and French interpreters at the United Nations, based in New York with my languages combinations native French, English, Russian. Despite hard work and high motivation, I did not pass all the selections.

Who am I?

My name is Nathalie Reuzé, I am a native French translator and certified interpreter, associate member of the Association of Community Interpreters (ACIS) and associate member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and member of the Association of Court and Police Interpreters (ACPI). I specialised in Slavic languages, graduated in Foreign Applied Languages and obtained my MA in Russian and English translations in 1995.

I was born in Nantes, Brittany, France, where I grew up. I left my home town when I turned eighteen years old to keep studying Russian at university level. During my studies, I was very keen to travel abroad. Therefore I applied for a one term university exchange programme at Oklahoma University (USA). After completed my exchange programme studies  I applied for a  job at the University library and worked for two months. From Oklahoma University, I was subsequently selected to study Spanish at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. Back to Europe in 1992, I obtained scholarships to study Polish, Slovak and Russian respectively at the University of Wroclaw, Bratislava and Lomonosov in Moscow. At that time I was offered the position of translator and interpreter to the French Consul at the French Embassy in Moscow. This unique experience was a great opportunity to gain expertise and hone my skills in Russian translating and interpreting, in particular during these difficult years of political instability. I lived two years in Moscow.

I have always been interested in languages and have seen it as an open window to other cultures and different ways of thinking. I like this diversity. I enjoy the challenge of bridging the gap between several cultures.

I have lived in The Hague area in the Netherlands for more than twenty years. I work as a freelance translator job and also hold a staff position at the European Space Agency as the organiser of the ESA expert lectures. I interact daily with engineers and scientists specialised in the outer space and its applications. I organise monthly internal conferences of space experts. I am also well integrated in the translation and interpreting industry.

Furthermore, I am seconded from the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) to ESA.

Besides I am fond of History. Since my childhood I have always wanted to become an archaeologist or medievalist. I like Art, Belles-lettres and enjoy passing on my knowledge to passionate audience.

EDUCATION

I hold a MA in Foreign Applied Languages, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1995 specialisation in Russian and English translating. Slavic Language Dept.
Study grant from French/Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs, University Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia
Lived and worked 2 years in Moscow, Russia
Studied 1 year in Oklahoma University, USA

WORKING EXPERIENCE

- Translator/interpreter to the French Consul at the French Embassy in Moscow 1993-1994, Russian, French, Moscow, Russia
- staff member of the CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - National Centre for Scientific Research, Strasbourg/Grenoble, France
- staff member of the European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC, responsible for the organisation of the ESA expert lectures,

SPECIALISED IN
- general correspondence, letters, CV.
- technical translations: Space Science, Physics, Space Telecommunications, satellites.
- legal translations
- diplomatic correspondence

AWARD

- 2023 awarded the Middlebury Institute Merit Scholarship for application for MA in Translation and Interpretation (French-English), Monterey CA, USA.

CONTINUING EDUCATION/TRAINING

- 2024 DPSI law Diploma in Public Service Interpreting

- 2022 Certificate from Court Interpreter Training Institute (CITI), University of Arizona.

- 2021 taking Arabic private lessons.

- 2021/2022 studying for Level 6 Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (UK law, courts, immigration).

- 2020 Level 3 Certificate in Community Interpreting/DPSI Online.

- 2018 Cambridge Conference Interpretation Course.

- Dutch course
- Translating at the notary from Dutch to Russian, Amsterdam, NL.
- Interpreting skills, note-taking in English, The Hague, NL.
- Individual Intensive English course II, Linguarama, The Hague, NL.
- Course for Russian/English interpreters, Utrecht, NL.
- Individual Intensive English course I, Linguarama, The Hague, NL.
- Interpreting skills course, Utrecht, NL.
- Technical Translation Unit, English -> French, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, NL.
- French Translation Division, English -> French, European Space Agency, Paris, France.
- Linguistics Summer School for Russian translators, Leiden University, NL.