MARIAGRAZIA PADALINO, translator from English and Spanish to Italian. Traductora de español e inglés a italiano. Traduttrice da inglese e spagnolo a italiano
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Mariagrazia PADALINO
Degree in Translation and Interpreting; Stage on general and specialized translation ITA>SPA - SPA>ITA; Stage on translation and interpreting ITA>ENG - ENG>ITA, terminology work and technical/legal/business/sociopolitical language; Linguistic Diploma in English, French and German; Call Center operator course.
via c. a. dalla chiesa, 6
nicolosi, 95030
Country code : IT
Tel : (+39) 095 911353
Mobile : (+39) 3490587532
Languages and specialist subject areas
English > Italian
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Spanish > Italian
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CV
Interests :
Creating pieces of Art, especially by oil painting.
Love for music, dance, cinema, figurative arts, reading especially poetry and essays, and travelling to experience different cultures.
Qualifications :
11/1996 - 3/2000
DEGREE IN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING
Università Degli Studi di CATANIA - ITALY
Professional courses :
- 1/1999 - 3/1999
Stage on TRANSLATION and INTERPRETING ENG>ITA, ITA>ENG.
Stage on TERMINOLOGY and SECTORIAL LANGUAGES (legal, economic, scientific, medical, technical jargon).
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY - Guildford, UNITED KINGDOM
- 10/1998 - 12/1998
Stage on general and specialized TRANSLATION ITA>SPA, SPA>ITA.
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA - SPAIN.
Professional experience :
May-July 2005
I translated four staff manuals for Hard Rock Café about new hire training, new leaders'/managers guides, restaurant and retail store procedures and politics.
April 2005
I translated an Italian restaurant menù from Sicily, from Italian into English, Spanish and French.
10-12/1998
I translated two information booklets on Spanish language courses offered by the private centre Escuela Lengua in Granada, Spain. I worked together with the Department of Romance, Italian, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan Philology of the University of Granada, Spain.
2000 upwards
Freelance translating on current affairs, geology, volcanology, menus, business, marketing, literature.
2/2002
Università degli Studi di Catania.
Interpreting ESP>ITA, ITA>ESP on architecture and town planning, during the workshop “Theory and practice of planning modernity places – the school of Barcelona”.
11/2001
Interpreting ENG>ITA, ITA>ENG on technical languages regarding Hi-Fi plants, materials and metals used, and sound reproduction, during a meeting between the producer and the reseller.
7/2001 - 8/2001
Austrian television broadcasting station 3SAT.
Interpreting ENG>ITA, ITA>ENG on volcanology and journalism, during Etna eruption.
7/2001 - 8/2001
Italian daily newspaper “La Sicilia”.
Freelance translator ESP>ITA on geology and volcanology during Etna eruption.
3/2001
Interpreting ESP>ITA, ITA>ESP on psychoanalysis, during a conference on Freudian studies.
2/2001
Interpreting ESP>ITA, ITA>ESP for the Spanish writer and historiographer Diego Camacho, concerning the writing up of his biography on Durruti.
3-5/12/2000
A.T.I. (Associazione Traduttori ed Interpreti)
Interpreting ENG>ITA, ITA>ENG, ESP>ITA, ITA>ESP on technical, scientific and economic themes, during the international meeting for companies EUROPARTENARIAT.
4/2000, 7/2000
Etna Park - Catania, Sicily.
Interpreting ENG>ITA, ITA>ENG on the sustainable economic development of the Etna Park territory during two international conferences.
1996 upwards
Cooperating in running the family souvenir shop, on the tourist site of the Etna volcano.
9/2002 - 3/2003
Receptionist and secretary at "La Vecchia Palma" Hotel, in the city centre of Catania.
2000 - 2002
Spanish language teaching at the European School of Economics - University of Catania.
2000 upwards
Private lessons of English and Spanish language.
03/2003 – 05/2004
Telemarketing of telephone products and services - call center outbound operator.
Training course for call centre operators on IT, communication, English, call center software and hardware, telemarketing.
1996 - 1999 / May 2005 upwards
Ground hostess at the Information Office on the tourist site of Nicolosi, on the Etna volcano.
Working method :
Software: Windows XP, MS Office XP (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Publisher), Adobe Acrobat.
Hardware: Word processor, PC and laptop; modem; printer; scanner; CD rewriter; Internet access.
Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopaedia.
MARIAGRAZIA PADALINO, translator from English and Spanish to Italian. Traductora de español e inglés a italiano. Traduttrice da inglese e spagnolo a italiano
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