I am a native Russian and Latvian freelance linguist with an MA degree in
the English language and an MA Degree in Translation Studies.


Over more than 20 years I have acquired considerable experience working as a
freelance translator language combinations:


Latvian into English

Russian into English

Latvian into Russian

English into Russian

As a native speaker of Russian, I offer proofreading
and editing in the following
language combinations:

English into Russian

German into Russian

Latvian into Russian


Comfortable with texts from a wide variety of fields, ranging from legal
texts (court rulings, proceedings, legal correspondence, application forms,
statements, etc.), legislation and regulatory documents to IT texts
(software manuals), technical manuals and product descriptions to company
websites, press-releases, tourism websites, brand literature and brochures,
I approach every project, big or small, with equally high standards of language
quality.


Where in addition to rendering the content in the target language, the customer
requires that the conveyed message fits cultural background, conventions and
expectations of the local audience, I am happy to offer transcreation
service.

When translating texts intended for online use, as an additional stage of the
project I can take care of SEO (search engine optimisation) for the
target market(s). This includes research of local keywords using online tools
(e.g. Ubersuggest, Google Suggest, Yandex Wordstat), replacing source language
keywords with relevant keywords in the target language and optimisation of the
target text for better SEO results.


Compliance with the client’s house style is an important point when taking on a
new project. I take great care to study all available style guides and the
client’s linguistic house rules, as well as research existing texts to identify
the appropriate tone of voice for use in translation.


I work with a wide variety of CAT tools and am an advanced user of SDL
Studio, memoQ, MemSource and Across. Where a project requires using the
client’s own translation software or platform, as a quick learner, I can master
the required new skills in a short time.

All translation jobs are carefully revised
before delivery.


Where the source material is in the form of a recording rather than written
text, and needs to be transcribed before being processed further, I can prepare
an accurate transcript, adding time stamps and time codes if required.


Apart from usual MS Office and OpenOffice files, I am happy to work with other
formats, such as xml, idml, indd, etc.


In addition, during the last 8 years I have been active in translating EU texts
from Latvian into English, with the total page count now exceeding 3 000.


On top of translation skills, I have nine years' experience of managing
translation projects of various degrees of complexity, from simple single
language pair jobs to multilingual projects for a variety of customers,
including pharmaceutical companies and EU institutions (the European Commission
and the European Parliament).