I read before I apply.
I am a freelance LV-ENG-LV translator based in Riga, Latvia.
My native tongue is Latvian.
My rate - from 0.025 to 0.03 EUR per word.
Skills:
English
Understanding Speaking Writing
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
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My experience:
Written translation of different text types and documents (LV-ENG, ENG-LV):
• University of Latvia website translation (LV-ENG).The corpus of translated texts covers a wide variety of topics: education, remarkable achievements in science and business, culture, modern study environment, annotations of the UL magazine ‘Alma Mater’, a presentation of the UL and annual graduations at the UL, rector’s welcome address, sports life at UL, Mathematics, History, etc. The target text (TT) was published at the same website as the source text (ST) and accessible to anyone who wants to read and compare both the original and translation.
• Psychology (ENG-LV);
• Education, tourism, advertisements, etc.
Education
Master’s degree of higher professional education programme ‘Written Translation’ (a diploma with distinction)
An average output - 5 pages (of course, it depends of the text to be translated)