Translation service (French / German to English)
I finished my full-time education with five years of study of French and German and translation studies at three universities. In my career I have successfully completed translation projects in a number of areas; the list includes academic / creative material (e.g. long textbook articles, product descriptions), legal and business material (e.g. contracts and leases, as well as formal correspondence, material pertaining to officially recognised certification and terms and conditions articles), IT / technical material (e.g. an instruction manual for the PC and PC software and how to use the Internet, website content, a patent and technical drawings), and various kinds of formal reports. I keep a record of selected past projects that I use as reference of past successful work in my career. This paragraph discusses my approach to translation tasks in my own words. I am highly literate but I understand that no translation task should be approached without an open mind with regard to the message intended in the original. It's not just a matter of being correct on a linguistic level - I consider accuracy (both grammatical and informational) to be nothing less than essential in my work, but I also attach a solid level of emphasis to reader-friendliness (hence my autonomously named policy of "alternative verbal innovation"). Whenever I may be uncertain about a particular word or phrase in a translation project, I am soon seeking help from a global community of translators on Translatorscafe.com (often successfully obtaining a result I am happy with in less than half an hour!). I can translate some 4000 words a day if I'm available all day (which I usually am). I accept bank transfer, Paypal, Moneybookers and even Western Union as payment methods.