About Me

I have been working as a freelance interpreter and translator for 5 years. I conduct my own business activity. The work I am entrusted with is always done with due diligence and passion. I am always able to meet the deadline!

Languages: Polish, English, German, Czech and Dutch.

 My Offer

Interpreting:

• simultaneous

• consecutive

• chuchotage (whispered interpreting)

• liaison

Daily rate (8 hours) - 1000 PLN

Half of the daily rate (up to 4 hours) - 500 PLN

Translation:

Standard page (1800 characters with spaces) - 30 PLN

The above rates are net rates. For more information please contact me at  +48 608 859 534 or write at joanna-ziobro@wp.pl

Education

From 16 December 2009 - qualified translator of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (Naczelna Organizacja Techniczna); specialities: technology, transport, machines and metallurgy, environmental protection, linguistics

From October 2009  - PhD studies - Rzeszów University

April 2009 - Trainings in the European Parliament and the European Commission in Brussels

- learning about the work of interpreters in the European institutions,
- simultaneous interpreting during meetings (dummy booth practice),
- meetings with interpreters working for DG SCIC and DG Interpreting, multimedia presentations.

• Trainings in the Directorate General for Translation in Luxembourg
  

  - learning the specificity of the work of translators and terminologists in the European institutions 
  - trainings including processing of directives by DG Translation
  - trainings concerning the software used by the translators working for DG Translation, as well as terminology databases (such as IATE Public).

• Trainings in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg
  

  - meetings with the staff interpreters from the polish booth,
  - training concerning the work of interpreters in the European Court of Justice
  - simultaneous interpreting during the hearings (dummy booth practice).

October 2007 - June 2009 - CONFERENCE INTERPRETING PROGRAMME (full-time) -Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Details: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/interp

The course covers four semesters and leads to a certificate in conference interpreting.
It involves the following languages: Polish (A), English (B), German (C) and a beginner course in Dutch.

- The programme focuses on the following areas: simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, liaison interpreting, chuchotage (whispered interpreting), sight-translation, public speaking, note-taking for conference interpreters, stylistics and rhetorics for translators and interpreters, interpreting strategies, LSP interpreting: science and technology, LSP interpreting: economy and commerce, legal translation and interpreting, European and world institutions.

Thematic scope:

- business, law, trade
- politics
- economics
- audit
- the European Union (directorates and their activities, operational programs, the CAP, structural funds, EU legislation, etc.)
- interpreting authentic speeches of the MEPs
- modern technologies
- ecology, waste management, alternative/renewable energy sources
- science and technology
- IT
- medicine
- marketing
- audiovisual translation, etc.

April 2008 -  audiovisual translation workshops conducted by visiting professors from Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori in Trieste - Prof. Christopher Taylor, Prof. John Dodds.

2007 - 2009 - Pedagogical assistance of the Directorate General for Interpreting  (http://scic.ec.europa.eu/europa/jcms/j_8/strona-gowna). Online trainings:  http://multilingualspeeches.tv/scic/portal/index.html.

October 2007 - June 2009 MA studies (English Studies, full-time)- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

MA seminar: Translation and Interpreting Studies (Prof. Alicja Pisarska)
Title of the MA thesis: "Local Cognitive Load in Simultaneous Interpreting"

October 2006 - April 2007 - Studies in Germany - University of Applied Sciences Cologne - Institut für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation- Mehrsprachige Kommunikation, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen - ERASMUS exchange

-courses: Introduction to simultaneous interpreting, introduction to consecutive interpreting, translation of general texts (German-English, English- German), translation theory, intercultural communication, German course for advanced learners.

April 2006 - organization of an international conference "Across Borders: Culture, Language and Literature in European and World Border Regions" in Krosno

October 2004 - June 2007 - BA studies in State Higher Vocational School in Krosno (under the auspices of Jagiellonian University) - specializing in teaching and translation
 Title f the BA thesis:"'Allo, 'Allo' in Translation. Strategies and Techniques"

 Qualifications

- Certificate in Conference Interpreting - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań - Centre for Teaching Translation

- Goethe-Zertifikat C1 (Zentrale Mittelstufenpruefung), grade: very good

- Knowledge of CZECH and DUTCH

 Experience

I translated/interpreted for:

- Hanseatic Parliament (Hamburg)

- Express & Translations (Damian Bończyk) 

- Linguana Translation Agency

- FUTURA Centrum Językowe

- Behlert & Behlert Tłumaczenia i Konferencje 

- GERPOL Translation Agency (Sebastian Szajek, Poznań),

- SALINA Translation Agency (Alina Kałek-Syp, Poznań),

- MEMO Translation Agency (Krzysztof Wasela, Przeźmierowo)

- Siemens Deutschland,

- MTU Aero Engines,

- Gospodaczy Bank Wielkopolski SA,

- Dunlop (Conveyor Belting),

- Deutsches Institut fur Normung,

- Visa Europe, 

- TEREX Corporation (telescopic cranes, boom trucks, aerial work platforms, utility aerial devices),

- PozBruk, 

- ABB Deutschland, 

- Velux Polska,

- KERN Translation Agency, 

- CONTRINEX (inductive and photoelectric proximity switches),

- Haußig-Bühnen Hebezeuge GmbH & Co. KG,

- Green Control Poznań,

- Layher Sp. z o.o,

- Woehrle Stromversorgungssysteme,

- SCHADE Aumund Group,

- GKN Driveline. 

 References

Upon request.