Rachel Zayer

French to English translation and transcreation for the wine and wine tourism industries Proofreading, editing and localisation of English-language texts for the wine and wine tourism industries

Native English speaker German & French to (UK & US) English translator 25 years' experience in the language industry Keen eye for detail, honed sense of style, creative skill Translator of German children's books in Ralf Leuther's "The Castle in the Clouds" series Services: Translation / Transcreation / Bilingual & monolingual proofreading / Monolingual editing / MTPE Main specialisms: Advertising & Marketing / Travel & Tourism / Gastronomy & Lifestyle CAT tools: memoQ / Trados Studio

Senior translator (German & French to English) Accustomed to producing high-quality work under strict conditions & deadlines Translation of a wide variety of texts from marketing texts, press releases & speeches to IT documentation to legal translations for the Home Office & Immigration Services (confidential material) Proofreading QA tasks Mentoring Time management Workload prioritisation & management CAT tool: Trados

Senior translator (German to English) Specialising in SAP translation e.g.: Defence forces & public security (sensitive material) / Business administration / IT / ERP Translating, researching & proofreading my own work Co-ordinating projects Liaising with PMs, developers & other translators Researching & defining new terminology Testing software & working through user documentation Training new employees Proofreading the work of junior translators QA tasks CAT tool: Trados

Translation of a variety of texts from German to English, e.g.: Marketing material / Technical texts / Legal documents Proofreading & editing translations in various languages Maintaining various company-specific databases in Trados MultiTerm Dealing with clients by telephone & fax Searching for freelance translators & interpreters throughout the world

French: French to English translation / Liasion interpreting German: German to English translation / Liasion interpreting Translation theory Trados Workbench translation technology Trados MultiTerm database creation MSc dissertation: "The Translation of Non-Standard Speech in the Subtitles to the French Film Les Visiteurs" Student representative for postgraduate students of German & Translation Technology

French translation / German translation / Intensive Spanish for beginners course

French for foreign students (language, literature, linguistics) / Translation modules

French: Language / Culture / Linguistics / Translation German: Language / Culture / Linguistics / Translation English linguistics: Phonetics / Syntax / Semantics / Second language acquisition Third year at university in France (Lille) and Germany (Tübingen) Spanish Level 3: Distinction Russian Level 1: Distinction Russian Level 2: Merit Initiator & editor of a year book for fourth-year students. In 2009, I organised & produced a ‘10 years on’ year book for the same group of students