Languages

Finnish: native language

German: near native-speaker level (have lived in Berlin since 1989)

English: fluent oral and written



Translation and interpreting skills

translation (German-English > Finnish; Finnish > German)
All my translations into German are proofread by a native German speaker.


consecutive interpreting (German-Finnish-German)



Translation and interpreting experience

translation in several fields, for example of technical, historical, advertising and prose texts, for clients in both the public and private sectors

proofreading texts dealing with a variety of topics

interpreting for German and Finnish companies



Higher education:

- adult education at the University of Helsinki (correspondence/online courses, 2004-2006)

- MA in Linguistics (English and German), Psychology and Scandinavian Literature at the Free University in Berlin (graduated in 2003)

- Industrial Design in Vantaa, Finland



Rates: EUR0.05 – 0.11 per word / EUR25-45 per hour