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Tosoni Tamara Professional Italian Translator and Proofreader Translating from English, German, French and Spanish only
into my mother language Work
and training experience: Freelance
translator and proofreader since 1998: I translate from ENGLISH, FRENCH,
GERMAN and SPANISH ONLY into ITALIAN. (rates are discussable)
During these
last years I dealt with many international companies in the field of
translation. Here below, you can browse
a list of the major projects I have worked in (as all projects listed,
were/are mainly done through agencies I had to sign tons of NDAs, so if you
are interested in knowing the end-client, please send me a formal request and
I’ll forward you with the information). As new direct client, from Dec ’06, I
acquired Microsoft Ireland and signed a contract for the localization of
their videogames. The most interesting, up to now, has been Kingdom Under
Fire à
http://www.kufcod.com Here my
experience in a nutshell: The most
challenging cooperation
– even if not a frequent one - is not pure translation but it is very
enriching. I do a sort of intercultural analysis for ads related to
products/services that have to be presented to the Italian market. Basically,
I have to write, for each campaign, a detailed report about all possible
cultural/anthropological differences noticeable in the proposed ad (Video or
print) and how effective/or not it could be on the Italian audience. Other recent
experiences related to translations include: ·
Book Liefde
gaat ZOO ·
Videogame Dogz
& Catz – Ubisoft – English and French into Italian http://petz.it.ubi.com/ ·
Automotive guides for a Dutch client - English into
Italian ·
Around
100 pages from English into Italian,
on a monthly bases, of city guides for an online booking service, based in Amsterdam ·
Glossary about art/antiques, from French into Italian ·
Documents related to the "Venice Biennale"
from English/Dutch into Italian ·
Medicine and marketing texts, from German into
Italian ·
Legal, communication and tourism related texts from
French into Italian ·
250.000 words from English into Italian - turbine
manuals ·
QA tester for videogames, and localizer EN>IT:
Dead or alive, volleyball 2, Viva Pinata… ·
Proofreader for a tourist guide about Luxury Hotels
in the world, German into Italian ·
Proofreader/translator for subtitling projects from
English into Italian, just to mention a few: X-country
documentary Poltergeist
(TV series) Queens
logic Fun
With Dick and Jane (2005) Scars
of Dracula Planet
Of The Apes (TV) Heavens Above I
Dream Of Jeannie S1 (Colorized Version) ·
Translation of a pulse-oximeter manual – medical
devices - (German into Italian) ·
Localization of an ERP Help-file (English into Italian) ·
Continuous translations in the field of
marketing/fashion/press/literature (English into Italian) and quality tester
for the Italian language Main project with this client: translation and
adaptation for a fashion magazine.(English into Italian) ·
Translation of
newsletters (English into Italian) ·
Translation of press-releases (Italian into English) ·
Translation of financial and marketing presentations
for an international IT corporation – English into Italian ·
Translation of DVD manuals - (English and Spanish
into Italian) ·
Translation of the children book “Salvatore der
Medifant"– by Elfie Donnelly & Paul Aratò- from German into Italian ·
English into Italian professional fashion designers
'stuff (bags, jewelry, clothing) from advert to press, conferences,
newsletters. ·
English into Italian – huge project about plastics
engineering ·
German into Italian press release newsletters (car,
fashion, motorbikes) ·
Translator for
several projects - weekly cooperation lasted for almost 2 yrs- legal field
(contracts, agreements, auditing) marketing, sport, humanities, manuals
(audio/video, machinery), electronics, health science. ·
Proofreader and translator for marketing, creative
and advertising related texts – English into Italian ·
Translator of
an history related e-book - from German into French (text about women and their legal rights during Roman’
time) – Of course the text went to proofreading before delivering ·
Cooperation to the creation of an online dictionary
English-Italian, full with idioms and puns.
·
3 months in-house translator in Spain (projects in
social economical field, terminology related to economic, statistics,
enquiries and studies about European projects and professional strategy).
Still cooperating with the same agency for translations from French, Spanish
into Italian. ·
Volunteer Translator for 2 social policies volumes –
NGO regulations ·
Translated a database (from Italian into English) for
the virtual version of an Italian national magazine ·
Transcribing activity (French into Italian) – I don’t
do it anymore! ·
Translator and technical editor for a science journal
·
Translator for brochures, tourism guides from French
into Italian Teaching
experience ·
Online course writer and distance learning tutor:
created a course titled “Italian for
the tourist” – 10 lessons, with live tutoring (http://www.newcurioshop.com) Abroad
experiences linked with translation ·
1 year in Germany (Dresden) as junior manager: I had
to coordinate European projects, to organize cultural meetings, exhibitions,
seminars, translations, interpreting, web-design… ·
3 months as Interpreter in Geiranger, Norway ·
3 months as in-house translator in Barcelona, Spain ·
Long stays in the UK, France and Luxembourg Education ·
MA in Translation – University of the West of England
- Bristol - UK ·
German terminology course in IT, Technique, Economy,
Media and Psychology branches - Goethe Institute – Germany ·
Postgraduate certificate in Technical Translation and
electronic tools – University of
Rovira i Virgili - Spain ·
Postgraduate certificate in editing and revising
technical texts in English – University of Rovira i Virgili – Spain ·
80 ECT in
audio-visual multimedia communication technology – University of Ferrara - Italy - ·
3 months Spanish language crash course – University
of Barcelona - Spain ·
Certificate in English for journalism – London school
of journalism – UK ·
Postgraduate certificate in human rights-
Co-operation between the University of Loja ( Ecuador) and Prodevir
(Argentina) ·
German language crash course: one year at the TUDIAS - Dresden – Germany ·
Certificate in web mastering – Dresden - Germany ·
2 years English and Russian literatures and languages
degree at the university of Verona – Italy ·
High school leave as Expert in foreign languages
(English and French) for business – Italy Foreign
languages: Italian: native English: very good Spanish: very good German: good French: very
good Dutch basic/good
passive Russian: basic
CAT
TOOLS: Multiterm Desktop 7 Few proprietary subtitling software –
depends on clients’ requests + PDF professional, PDF2Words, Anycount… PERSONAL
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