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Subtitling: 16 minutes/approx. 2,000 words. Chips and circuit boards for use in very specific applications, Made in France! Simplifying and shortening six transcriptions, very painstaking work adjusting time-codes, adding on-screen text to subtitles. Six corporate videos: Meaning, Trust, The Atmosphere, Technological Challenges, The Setting, General Summary. Aim: to get talents to apply for positions at the company in question. Very rewarding! Trademarks, 2,900 words, FR (Switzerland)-EN (UK), registration application documents. 1 user French (Morocco)-English (UK), 2,400 words, the fight against counterfeiting by the Moroccan customs authorities. A PowerPoint presentation, translated using the SDL Trados CAT (computer-assisted translation) tool. 1 user1 user Banking: compliance public communication document, 500 words. 1 user Dec. 2021 to May 2022. Taught myself subtitling on Subtitle Edit and by studying other subtitlers' work: on the shows Barry, We Own This City, and Silicon Valley, notably. Clients: CCJK, Mondo Agit (France), and Strommen (LA). Topics: the Olympic Games (an interview with an athlete), racism in football (interviews with various men's and womens' football players, amongst them two FIFA World Cup winners), animal rights & the environment (interview with Hugo Clément, a prominent French activist), etc. Volume: 6 hours, which entailed a great deal more work than it might seem. Skills learned: TBC 1 user
General: ISAAC project, HT FRENCH TO ENGLISH, 47,000 source words approximately (shared with other linguists), two alternative translations for each source string in French. Repetitive but mildly challenging. More details to follow. 1 user Legal (contract law and IP law). Parts of a Partnership Agreement: the recitals, the IP section and the signature page. 6 pages, unknown wordcount. More details to follow. 2 users Six minutes of time-coding and subtitling work (approx. 600 words to be translated/adapted), French to English, for one of the GAFAM companies. Taught myself time-coding in one evening. Legal (company law)/finance (accounting), consulting services: content for the websites of two companies based in France. Accounting, VAT and excise duty, payroll, payroll insurance, secondment of employees to France, business domiciliation, etc. Not very exciting, but I cater to all my client's needs.
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(edited) Legal (TV rights law)/sport (football): proofreading of subtitles of TV content for FIFA. More details to follow. Sub-contracting and project management of other language combinations: e.g. EN>FR, FR>SP, FR>GER, etc.
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(edited) Economics/telecoms (internet and mobile internet and voice calls): 2,800 words on the digital economy in Africa, digital infrastructure, etc. Completed. Mostly West African French. More details to follow in due course. 1 user Legal/business (corporate law): minutes of a company's general meeting, regarding a name change.
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(edited) Subtitling/cosmetics: FR>EN translation and subtitling, 6'15". Looking forward to it. More details to follow. 1 user Legal: academic legal paper about French criminal procedure, for a French university, 7,000 words.
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(edited) Sport: interview with a Tokyo 2020 Olympics medal winner, for the International Olympic Committee (IOL), 31 minutes, audiovisual, approx. 4,500 words. Transcription, translation and time-coding. Gained valuable experience in all three areas. 1 user Law (contract law): approx. 5,400 words. Framework partnership agreements with sub-contractors, terms and conditions of orders, etc. Belgian French/French (Belgium).
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(edited) Fintech: for a fintech start-up based in Paris. Text was a mix of marketing, hospitality trade finance (quite technical), and fintech. Legal (trademark/IP law): trademark and domain name licensing and sub-licensing agreements, 5,000 words. 1 user Legal (IP/trademark law): product and service trademark registration application, to the French patent office (INPI). 1 user Business/law (corporate law): minutes of a company's general meeting, resolutions to amend its articles of association. 1 user 30 minutes of subtitling, EN>FR, a very technical IT presentation featuring two senior executives of one of the GAFAM companies. 
(edited) 100% score in a legal translation test from a leading UK LSP. More details to follow. Company law again, basically. Kbis (company certification of incorporation) extract. I have to admit that I quite like doing these small repetitive jobs, you can always tweak something translation-wise (working off a Kbis template, of course -- previously done work), you can always "play" with the lay-out, and then getting it right and producing a great-looking document is such a great satisfaction. It's a pity that the client didn't say thanks or even acknowledge receipt of my delivery, but you get very used to that in this game.  1 user
(edited) More law (I love law!): Power of attorney, to be used in the Middle East. Company name change and amendment of Articles of Association (French company). Company law.  1 user
(edited) Recently-completed TEP (Translation, Editing and Proofreading) projects: - Service provision agreement (contract law), 7,000 words; - Medical (eye medicine), 850 words (translation part of project subcontracted); - NDA (contract law), 3,350 words. (Photo: Côte d'Or, Burgundy, in autumn.)  2 users
(edited) Big project for a business school. See you in September! 1 user 13,000 words in the education field, for a business school in France. Miscellaneous types of material. 1 user A 14,000-word Master's Degree thesis (finance/IT). (edited) 6,000 words about health services in a West African country. So much enjoyable research! 3 users FR>EN: grade transcripts, a diploma, and a reference letter, eight pages in all, part of a university application, approx. 2,000 words, for a certified translation. 3 users The 2020s, my THIRD DECADE in the translation business: 2021: January (to date): - 3 x criminal record reports, French (Belgium) into English, 1,000 words. - Apostilled Bachelor's Degree and a non-apostilled Marriage Certificate, French (Canada) into English, 500 words. - MTPE (machine translation post-editing) and checking partial matches, financial documents. A disruptive investment fund's Corporate Social Responsibility Charter (CSR charter), its Prospectus and Key Investor Information. 700 weighted words. - NEW! Voice artist work, a 4½-page script. - A social media audit, social media recommendations and a social media charter, 6,000 words approx., for a group of companies that distributes half a million products worldwide. Life goes on, this time will pass! Internet/social media: for a B2B company, 6,000 words, a social media audit, recommendations and company charter. 2 users September 2020 to date (22/09), broad subject areas and broad details listed only, for confidentiality reasons: - Proofreading for one of the largest international sports confederations in the world, 1,000 words. - Pro bono work: re-working and re-writing of a letter, academia, 500 words. - French land army document (specialised section), 100 words. - Certified translations, and documents with attached statements of truth signed by me for court use in the UK; extremely varied content, 15,000 words. - Education/COVID, 1,200 words. - Legal, 1,000 words. 2 users Legal (litigation law, court ruling): a court ruling in a West African country, 2,000 words.
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(edited) Business/corporate/legal (company law): a Shareholders' Agreement, 12,000 words.
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(edited) Law (contract law): the General Terms & Conditions of Sales and the Partnership Agreement of a group of companies that could disrupt Uber Eats, Just Eat, worldwide, 1,500 words, with much more to come as the group expands throughout the world.
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(edited) Two Birth Certificates. (There's not much more to add really!)
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(edited) Official documents for certified translations 1 user
Official documents for certified translations: 1 x grade transcript, 2 x marriage certificates and 1 x birth certificate, 1,000 words.
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Updating and remodelling my CV, web page updates, admin, end-of-month invoicing. General "housekeeping". Following up on potential projects. Oil: three letters regarding the construction of an oil refinery in North Africa, 1,000 words.
Official document: a master's degree diploma issued by the École Polytechnique ParisTech, a Grande École. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique
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(edited) Official documents: diplomas and grade transcripts, 3,000 words approx., a three-year joint honours arts degree.
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Official documents: three two-page payslips, no problem at all. A little surprised with myself, as French payslips run to 30/40 lines. Now for some fresh air and evening sun, for my one hour of permitted exercise.
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(edited) Official documents: higher education diplomas and grade transcripts, and a marriage certificate
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