Teresa Quinn - French to English translator. Translation services in Business/Commerce (general)

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French to English

Teresa Quinn
Dip Trans, MCIL, AITI

Richmond, United Kingdom

Local time: 00:23 GMT (GMT+0)

Native in: English

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Business/Commerce (general)

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Post-editing Volume: 1753 words Completed: Feb 2014 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 471 words Completed: Feb 2014 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 521 words Completed: Feb 2014 Languages: French to English	Disneyland Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3454 words Completed: Feb 2014 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 18096 words Completed: Jan 2014 Languages: French to English	The Global Fund - application for funding (malaria) International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2888 words Completed: Jan 2014 Languages: French to English	Almirall Medical: Pharmaceuticals	No comment.
Translation Volume: 523 words Completed: Jan 2014 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire Sports / Fitness / Recreation	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 11468 words Completed: Jan 2014 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire Education / Pedagogy	No comment.
Translation Volume: 800 words Completed: Jan 2014 Languages: French to English	Caterpillar Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 19880 words Completed: Dec 2013 Languages: French to English	Canada Lands - employer/trade union agreement Human Resources	No comment.
Translation Volume: 6100 words Completed: Dec 2013 Languages: French to English	HSBC - bank documents Finance (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 5150 words Completed: Dec 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - CV, job application Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2310 words Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	DAF Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2 days Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - CV, job application, certificates Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 251 words Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil - job description Human Resources	No comment.
Translation Volume: 560 words Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire Management	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1242 words Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - job application, CV, certificates Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1 days Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - incident report Safety	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1 days Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - job application, certificates Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1 days Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - job application, CV, certificates Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1235 words Completed: Nov 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - retail/sports equipment Retail	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 1404 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Target - retail Retail	No comment.
Translation Volume: 982 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Disneyland menus Cooking / Culinary	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 6277 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - ski equipment Sports / Fitness / Recreation	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 684 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire - insurance claim form Insurance	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1 days Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Caterpillar - birth certificate (Quebec) Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3215 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Gallup - survey responses Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 652 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 879 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Canadian Tire Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 951 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Click2translate - history History	No comment.
Translation Volume: 4144 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Accor Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2760 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Accor Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 11327 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	DFDS Transport / Transportation / Shipping	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3575 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Motorola Law (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 868 words Completed: Oct 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil - rescue procedures Safety	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2333 words Completed: Sep 2013 Languages: French to English	Sarenza, shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 2004 words Completed: Sep 2013 Languages: French to English	TD Bank Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1310 words Completed: Sep 2013 Languages: French to English	Target - cash registers Retail	No comment.
Translation Volume: 706 words Completed: Aug 2013 Languages: French to English	Voluntary translation for Friends of the Earth International Environment & Ecology	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 1177 days Completed: Aug 2013 Languages: French to English	Getty, use of images from the Internet IT (Information Technology)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 6716 words Completed: Aug 2013 Languages: French to English	The Global Fund, application for funding International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1337 words Completed: Aug 2013 Languages: French to English	Pratt & Whitney survey responses Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Post-editing Volume: 21937 words Completed: Aug 2013 Languages: French to English	Schneider, post-editing Energy / Power Generation	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3429 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Baxter, IT IT (Information Technology)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 600 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Caterpillar,3 Belgian birth certificates Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2774 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil, technical (rope/cable types) Mechanics / Mech Engineering	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1479 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil, description of new show Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2874 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil, technical Mechanics / Mech Engineering	No comment.
Translation Volume: 250 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Total, business/training Human Resources	No comment.
Translation Volume: 6389 words Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Yves Rocher, privacy policy and terms & conditions Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2 days Completed: Jul 2013 Languages: French to English	Caterpillar, birth certificate, marriage certificate, 3 diplomas Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 274 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Nielsen, advertisements Marketing	No comment.
Translation Volume: 4317 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	DFDS, call for bids Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1393 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Gallup, back translation Human Resources	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1649 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Pratt & Whitney, human resources Human Resources	No comment.
Translation Volume: 14557 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Semcon, survey responses re cars Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1377 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Nielsen, social media Internet, e-Commerce	No comment.
Translation Volume: 500 words Completed: Jun 2013 Languages: French to English	Wendy's, pay equity Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1633 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2763 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Sarenza, shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Translation Volume: 8007 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Semcon, survey responses re cars Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 446 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Kion, fork-lift trucks Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 223 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Nielsen, advertisements Marketing	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2865 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Provigo Retail	No comment.
Translation Volume: 4847 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Semcon, survey responses re cars Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2863 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	S Blachet, articles relating to an art exhibition guide Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting	No comment.
Translation Volume: 322 words Completed: May 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil IT (Information Technology)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1080 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Petro-Canada Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3125 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Translation Volume: 8744 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil IT (Information Technology)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1302 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2808 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1406 words Completed: Apr 2013 Languages: French to English	Total Oil newsletter Journalism	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1387 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1144 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2509 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 648 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Menus for Disneyland Paris Cooking / Culinary	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3652 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Scientific translation for Yara Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1433 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Article on an educational project Education / Pedagogy	No comment.
Translation Volume: 411 days Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Journalism	No comment.
Translation Volume: 891 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Survey responses Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1131 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Amazon (part of website) Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 388 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Accor hotel chain Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2655 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Translation Volume: 982 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Architect's CV Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 190 words Completed: Mar 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du Soleil Journalism	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1253 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Survey responses Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1531 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du soleil Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 506 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Provigo (food retailer) Retail	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2072 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du soleil Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 829 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Danone (food retailer) Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 848 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Disneyland Paris Media / Multimedia	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1053 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Description of loyalty scheme for a hotel chain website Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 514 words Completed: Feb 2013 Languages: French to English	Resume Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2768 words Completed: Jan 2013 Languages: French to English	Global Fund application International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 7282 words Completed: Jan 2013 Languages: French to English	Global Fund application Mauritania International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 404 words Completed: Jan 2013 Languages: French to English	Cirque du soleil Cinema, Film, TV, Drama	No comment.
Translation Volume: 9465 words Completed: Jan 2013 Languages: French to English	Global Fund application International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 8298 days Completed: Dec 2012 Languages: French to English	Teleconferencing website Telecom(munications)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2938 words Completed: Dec 2012 Languages: French to English	Articles reviewing audio equipment Media / Multimedia	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1942 words Completed: Dec 2012 Languages: French to English	Enginering Logistics (Total) Petroleum Eng/Sci	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1972 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Shoe website Textiles / Clothing / Fashion	No comment.
Translation Volume: 772 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Job description (Total) Energy / Power Generation	No comment.
Translation Volume: 12701 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Survey responses Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3006 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Survey responses Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 6850 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Global Fund application International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2368 words Completed: Nov 2012 Languages: French to English	Survey responses Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1381 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 5378 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 7683 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 4556 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of survey responses Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 8816 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 500 words Completed: Oct 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of amendments to a historical article History	No comment.
Translation Volume: 11994 words Completed: Sep 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of survey responses Tourism & Travel	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1700 words Completed: Aug 2012 Languages: French to English	3 page document relating to human rights Voluntary translation for FIDH (Fédération internationale des droits de l'homme) International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 407 words Completed: Jul 2012 Languages: French to English	Document about human rights organisations in Cameroon Voluntary translation for Amnesty International Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.	No comment.
Translation Volume: 120 words Completed: May 2012 Languages: French to English	Medical certificate Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 11278 words Completed: May 2012 Languages: French to English	Application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 415 words Completed: May 2012 Languages: French to English	Short description of a sales showroom Retail	No comment.
Editing/proofreading Volume: 21447 words Completed: May 2012 Languages: French to English	Application to the Global Fund International Org/Dev/Coop	No comment.
Translation Volume: 100 words Completed: Mar 2012 Languages: French to English	Translation of Moroccan Attestation de travail Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 2100 words Completed: Feb 2012 Languages: French to English	3 documents relating to human rights voluntary translation for Amnesty International Law (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 4857 words Completed: Jan 2012 Languages: French to English	12 pages of a technical specification Automotive / Cars & Trucks	No comment.
Translation Volume: 800 words Completed: Jan 2012 Languages: French to English	2 pages about identification documents in Cameroon voluntary translation for Amnesty International Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1400 words Completed: Jan 2012 Languages: French to English	Two page letter Voluntary translation for Amnesty International Law (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 746 words Completed: Jan 2012 Languages: French to English	One page article about modern art Article about contemporary art in Belgium Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting	No comment.
Translation Volume: 3200 words Completed: Dec 2011 Languages: French to English	19th century handwritten document from Quebec History	positive Full Circle Translations: Teresa Quinn did a beautiful job on the translation, delivering well ahead of schedule, and going above and beyond doing additional research to answer our client's questions.
Translation Volume: 154 words Completed: Dec 2011 Languages: French to English	1 page medical certificate voluntary translation for Amnesty International Medical: Health Care	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1010 words Completed: Dec 2011 Languages: French to English	3 page summary of a trial voluntary translation for Amnesty International Law (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 661 words Completed: Dec 2011 Languages: French to English	1 page article on recycling in France Environment & Ecology	No comment.
Editing/proofreading Volume: 3 days Completed: Oct 2011 Languages: French to English	11 chapters of a production manual Manufacturing	No comment.
Translation Volume: 7377 words Completed: Oct 2011 Languages: French to English	1 chapter of a production manual Manufacturing	No comment.
Editing/proofreading Volume: 7551 words Completed: Sep 2011 Languages: French to English	27 page contract (Haiti) Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 7014 words Completed: Sep 2011 Languages: French to English	Fourteen page historical article History	positive Unlisted : High-quality conscientious work. I recommend largely her
Editing/proofreading Volume: 2200 words Completed: Aug 2011 Languages: French to English	Negotiations Guide (Haiti) Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 220 words Completed: Aug 2011 Languages: French to English	Appendix to Negotiations Guide Business/Commerce (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 1295 words Completed: Aug 2011 Languages: French to English	Six page series of medical reports Medical (general)	No comment.
Translation Volume: 80 words Completed: Aug 2011 Languages: French to English	Togolese birth certificate Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs	No comment.

Sample translations submitted: 4

French to English: Literary text (Immensités, Sylvie Germain) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - French Et le compte à rebours de la séparation commença. Le présent se mua pour Prokop en futur révolu ; chaque fois qu’il se trouvait avec Olbram, Prokop ne pouvait s’empêcher de penser que ce moment qu’ils étaient en train de partager était déjà un passé à venir. Le moindre geste, rire ou regard de son fils provoquaient en lui une étrange émotion, comme si c’était, simultanément, la première et la dernière fois qu’Olbram bougeait, parlait, riait, posait sur lui son regard. Tout s’imposait d’emblée comme souvenir anticipé, tout se faisait par avance nostalgie. La mélancolie du futur antérieur endolorissait les heures du bonheur présent. Plus les jours filaient et plus cette rupture, ce décrochement intérieur du temps s’aggravaient. Le présent se dilatait et les deux autres dimensions temporelles y mugissaient en sourdine d’une voix blanche et obsédante. Même lorsqu’il se trouvait avec ses amis à l’Ourson Blanc en train de boire et de bavarder, ce glissement se produisait et soudain, la bouffée qu’il venait de tirer de sa cigarette, la gorgée de vin qu’il avalait, le morceau de pain ou de fromage qu’il portait à sa bouche prenaient une saveur nouvelle, intense. La saveur de la dernière cigarette, de la gorgée finale, de l’ultime bouchée, - mais avant quoi ? La vie était là pourtant, plus dense et vivace que jamais, il la ressentait par tous les pores de sa peau, dans toutes les fibres de sa chair. La vie était là, sonore, mouvante, palpable, - pour mieux se taire, se retirer un jour prochain. Prokop se tenait là, dans le brouhaha de la salle, pleinement présent et attentif à tout ce qui bougeait et palpitait autour de lui, les cinq sens aiguisés à l’extrême, et dans le même instant il se sentait propulsé en des zones éloignées du temps, exilé dans les marges du futur, rejeté en un passé imminent. Ce paradoxe en engendrant d’autres, plus Prokop se faisait vigilant, requis par le moindre détail, et plus il devenait distrait. Il s’absentait par excès de présence. Il était frappé d’un don étrange, celui d’une ubiquité dans le temps. ‘Hé ho ! Prokop, réveille-toi !’ lui criaient ses amis devant son air hagard. Mais il ne dormait pas, loin de là ; il s’épuisait en un marathon insensé entre le futur et le passé au cœur même du présent. Il engrangeait chaque sensation, chaque seconde vécue, dans l’énorme entrepôt de sa mémoire. Tout en vrac, - le goût des nourritures, les voix, les rires, les allées et venues des serveuses, le tintement des verres, les mouvements et la chaleur des corps, les expressions des visages. Il n’osait pas avouer cela à ses amis… Alors il souriait, plaisantait, pour ne pas montrer combien il était essoufflé. C’est qu’on ne s’improvise pas à la légère coureur de fond sur trois dimensions temporelles.	Translation - English And so the countdown to the separation began. The present changed for Prokop into a future which was already over. Each time he was with Olbram, Prokop could not stop himself from thinking that this moment they were sharing was already in a past which was yet to come. His son’s slightest gesture, laugh or look aroused a strange emotion in him, as if it were both the first and the last time Olbram would move, speak, laugh or look at him. Everything was turning into an instant memory before its time, into a longing still to come. The anticipation of this future melancholy was spoiling the times of happiness now. The faster the days flew by the worse this break-up, this inner detachment from time was becoming. The present was expanding and the other two time zones moaned softly within it in a haunting, monotonous voice. Even when he was with his friends having a drink and a chat at the White Bear Cub this shift would take place and suddenly the puff he had just taken from his cigarette, the mouthful of wine he was swallowing, the piece of bread or cheese he was raising to his lips would take on an intense new flavour. The taste of the last cigarette, the last mouthful of wine or food, but the last one before what? And yet life was there, more complex and enduring than ever, he could feel it in every pore of his skin, every fibre of his flesh. Life was there, noisy, changing and palpable only to fall silent and withdraw all the more noticeably, as it would do one day soon. Prokop would stand there in the hubbub of the room, totally present and aware of everything moving and pulsating around him, his five senses heightened to the utmost and at the same moment he would feel himself propelled into faraway time zones, exiled to the fringes of the future, thrown into a past which was imminent. As this paradox created others, as Prokop became more watchful, aware of the smallest detail, the more distracted he became. His magnified awareness of the present was making him absent from it. He was struck by a strange gift, the gift of being everywhere in time. “Hey! Prokop, wake up!” his friends would shout on seeing his distraught face. But he was not asleep, far from it. In the very heart of the present, he was engaged in a mad, exhausting marathon between the future and the past. He was gathering up every sensation, every second lived in the huge repository of his memory. It was all in a jumble – the taste of different foods, voices, laughter, the comings and goings of the waitresses, the clinking of glasses, the movement and warmth of bodies, the expressions on faces. He did not dare admit it to his friends… So he smiled and joked to avoid showing how breathless he was. Suddenly becoming a long-distance runner covering three time zones was not an easy undertaking.
French to English: Education text General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Education / Pedagogy
Source text - French De la misère en milieu enseignant Le nouveau ministre de l’éducation nationale s’installe dans ses meubles, et un constat s’impose. De plus en plus d’enseignants vivent dans la confusion, l’inquiétude ou la désespérance, un métier sans boussole, sans tableau de bord et sans directives vraiment lisibles. Depuis des décennies, ils sont soumis au rythme de réformes qui courent après leur ombre au nom d’une hypothétique et encore introuvable démocratisation de l’école. On peut toujours faire semblant de croire qu’on s’en rapproche, alors que l’on voit s’accroître, au contraire, l’exclusion socioscolaire, les violences et autres incivilités, qui en sont l’inévitable prix à payer. Quel enseignant saurait définir avec clarté et certitude les finalités et les missions de l’école soit un minimum commun à partager pour donner à penser qu’ils participent à la même entreprise ? Edgar Pisani, ancien ministre des débuts de la Ve République, indiquait dans une publication récente que le point aveugle de cette République – celle justement de la réforme de l’école – a été « qu’il n’y a jamais eu de débat fondamental sur l’éducation, alors que ce qui est en cause, c’est le sens de l’éducation dans le monde moderne ». Bien sûr, le discours officiel dit qu’il s’agit d’instruire, de développer la personnalité de l’enfant et, avec insistance de l’éduquer à la citoyenneté. Mais dans la forme actuelle de notre démocratie, ces objectifs sont davantage le début d’un catalogue à la Prévert qu’un ensemble cohérent. Car chaque objectif pris séparément exclut pratiquement les deux autres. Comment prétendre inculquer une morale et des pratiques de citoyenneté fondées sur le respect, la solidarité et donc le partage, quand l’école repose sur l’évaluation compétitive, où s’exerce une solidarité de chacun pour soi. Même constat d’impasse pour « l’épanouissement de la personnalité », incompatible avec la course monomaniaque aux savoirs diplômants. Et comment instruire des enfants « hétérogènes » sans créer une nouvelle culture scolaire qui intègre les valeurs éducatives d’une vraie mixité sociale : mais cela suppose un nouveau regard sur les enfants candidats à l’exclusion et une formation en amont qui, pour l’instant, n’existe pas ou est tout à fait à la marge dans les IUFM ? Comme en miroir à toutes ces réformes qui tournent en rond, le débat sur l’école, au lieu de mettre au jour les racines de la crise et les contradictions qui les alimentent, s’enlise dans de complaisantes et récurrentes polémiques. Si l’on a bien compris, deux camps plus ou moins autoproclamés ferraillent depuis le milieu des années 80 : l’un défend la version républicaine et traditionnelle de l’école instruisante, qui doit s’en tenir à transmettre la culture et ses œuvres ; l’autre veut permettre la modernisation du système. Avec des dispositifs d’organisation et de méthode empruntés à la pédagogie et aux sciences de l’éducation en général. Mais ces polémiques sont d’autant plus caricaturales que ces deux camps sont en fait d’accord sur l’essentiel : agir au nom du dogme républicain de « l’égalité des chances » qu’ils ne cessent d’invoquer. Ni les uns ni les autres ne se sont aperçus que « l’égalité des chances » était cela même qui rendra à jamais impossibles les réformes égalitaires qu’ils appellent ! « L’égalité des chances » n’est qu’un pseudo-concept, obstacle majeur, aujourd’hui plus qu’hier, à tout ce qui voudrait s’énoncer comme refondation d’un système éducatif démocratique. « L’égalité des chances » n’a jamais eu pour objectif d’assurer l’égalité, mais de légitimer les inégalités sociales. Elle ne mesure jamais que l’obligation de se rapporter à une échelle sociale de réussite. La chance s’y distribue à partir de polarités dont on fait croire qu’elles sont quasiment naturelles : des voies de l’« excellence » jusqu’aux filières de la relégation pour ceux à qui on feint hypocritement de donner « une seconde chance ».	Translation - English Hard times in the teaching profession As the new Minister of Education settles into his office, one state of affairs is obvious. More and more teachers are living in a state of confusion, anxiety and desperation, in a job with no objectives, no performance indicators and no really clear directives. For decades now they have been subjected to reforms at a rate which has them chasing their tails in the name of a hypothetical and as yet unobtainable democratization of schools. We can always pretend to believe that we are coming closer to achieving it, while on the other hand seeing at the same time an increase in school exclusions, violence and other instances of rudeness, the unavoidable price to be paid for this democratization. What teacher could define, clearly and confidently, schools’ aims and tasks, or at least a minimum common ground that would point to the fact that they share the same undertaking? Edgar Pisani, a former Minister from the early days of the Fifth Republic, indicated in a recent publication that the blind spot of this Republic, the Republic which has carried out all these reforms, was “that there has never been a fundamental debate on education, when what is at stake is the direction of education in the modern world.” The official view is, of course, that it is a question of instructing, developing the child’s personality and, most of all, educating him in citizenship. But in the current form of our democracy, these objectives are more like the beginnings of a random Jacques Prévert-style list than a coherent whole since each objective, taken individually, virtually excludes the other two. How can we claim to instil a moral code and the behaviour of citizenship based on respect, solidarity and consequently sharing when the school system is based on competitive assessment whose underlying ethos is every man for himself. The same impasse applies to the “development of the personality”, which is incompatible with the single-minded race to learn what is needed to pass exams. And how can “heterogeneous” children be taught without creating a new school culture which integrates the educational values of a true social mix? But that would assume taking a new look at children who would be potential candidates for exclusion, and training at an earlier stage which at present does not exist or does so completely on the sidelines in the Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maîtres (primary teacher training colleges). As if mirroring all these reforms going round in circles, instead of shedding light on the roots of the crisis and the contradictions which fuel them, the debate on schools is becoming bogged down in recurring, self-indulgent controversies. If our understanding is correct, two more or less self-proclaimed camps have been at loggerheads since the mid-1980s. One defends the traditional republican model of the school as a place of instruction which must confine itself to transmitting culture and its body of works. The other wants to allow the modernisation of the system, with organisational and planning mechanisms borrowed from teaching and educational science in general. But these controversies are all the more ridiculous in that these two camps are actually in agreement on the fundamental point of acting in the name of the republican belief in “equality of opportunity” to which they ceaselessly refer. Neither has noticed that it is precisely “equality of opportunity” which will make these egalitarian reforms for which they are calling forever impossible to achieve. “Equality of opportunity” is merely a pseudo-concept and a major obstacle, more so today than in the past, to everything that would like to be seen as the reshaping of a democratic educational system. The aim of “equal opportunity” has never been to ensure equality, but to legitimize social inequalities. It only ever measures the obligation to relate to a social scale of success. Opportunity is shared out from both extremes, which we are made to believe are almost natural, from the paths of “excellence” to the roads to relegation for those to whom we hypocritically pretend to give “a second chance”.
French to English: Child care text General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Source text - French En France, plus de 750 000 enfants naissent chaque année. Si l’école maternelle les accueille à partir de 3 ans, le problème de la garde des enfants plus jeunes reste entier. Après la guerre, la prédominance du modèle « familialiste », symbolisé par l’homme au travail et la femme au foyer, évinçait de facto tout dilemme sur ce point. L’aide publique consistait à favoriser les familles mono-actives (allocation salaire unique…). A partir des années soixante, l’irrésistible progression de l’activité féminine à plein temps (qui est une spécificité française) a mis à mal ce modèle traditionnel, soulevant ainsi la question : qui doit garder le jeune enfant ? Les discours politiques se sont orientés vers l’aide à la conciliation entre vie familiale et professionnelle. Cet « arbitrage » est encore aujourd’hui considéré comme une problématique exclusivement réservée aux femmes. Le domaine du travail est encore souvent considéré comme relevant des compétences des hommes, tandis que la sphère familiale concerne principalement les femmes, comme si coexistaient des hommes sans famille et des femmes inactives. Les pouvoirs publics ont mis en place des mesures visant à faciliter le travail des femmes et ont développé les possibilités d’accueil des jeunes enfants. Dans un premier temps, l’accent a porté sur l’offre d’équipements et services : crèches collectives, familiales, parentales, haltes-garderies. Le milieu des années quatre-vingt marque la fin de l’hégémonie de ce type de structures et le développement de modes de garde individuels : encouragement à l’emploi d’une personne à domicile (AGED, allocation de garde d’enfant à domicile), d’une assistante maternelle à l’extérieur (AFEAMA, aide à la famille pour l’emploi d’une assistante maternelle agréée) ou retrait du marché du travail d’un des deux parents (APE, allocation parentale d’éducation). Ce mouvement s’est poursuivi dans les années quatre-vingt-dix. De ce fait, la proportion d’enfants accueillis en crèche stagne, alors que l’accueil individuel concerne un nombre croissant d’enfants. Le dispositif actuel d’aide à la garde du jeune enfant comprend de multiples mesures nationales et locales. Les services offerts tentent, autant que faire se peut, de prendre en compte le développement de l’enfant. Bien qu’essentiel, l’aspect qualitatif de la garde d’enfant ne fait pas ici l’objet d’une analyse approfondie. Le système français est l’un des plus généreux d’Europe et offre aux parents une grande diversité de modes d’accueil. Cependant, il n’est pas parfait pour autant. Il ne permet pas de couvrir l’ensemble des besoins de la population. Les diverses possibilités ne sont pas accessibles à toutes les familles. De plus, la superposition successive des aides a rendu ce système complexe. Ses effets redistributifs et son impact sur l’accès à l’emploi des femmes sont mal connus. Le nouveau gouvernement propose de modifier l’intervention publique. Les modalités exactes de ces changements, encore imprécises, doivent être discutées lors de la prochaine conférence sur la famille.	Translation - English More than 750,000 children are born in France each year. Although children can attend nursery school from the age of three, the problem of care for younger children remains unresolved. After the war, the predominance of the traditional “family” model characterised by the man at work and the woman at home, effectively eliminated any dilemma on this matter. State assistance consisted of helping families with one wage-earner (with the single salary benefit etc). From the 1960s onwards, the unstoppable development of full-time female employment (which is a particularly French characteristic) undermined this traditional model, and thus raised the question of who should care for young children. Political debate has tended towards helping reconcile family and working life. This “balancing act” is, even today, considered to be exclusively the woman’s problem. The sphere of work is still often considered to be the man’s concern, while the family is principally the woman’s, as if men without children and non-working women co-existed. The authorities have put in place measures which aim to make it easier for women to work and have developed child care possibilities. Initially the emphasis was on the provision of facilities and services, such as collective child care, care by a registered childminder, mutual child care organised by parents, and day nurseries. The mid-1980s saw the end of the predominance of this type of arrangement and the development of individual methods of child care by encouraging employing someone in the home (with AGED, the allowance for employing a childminder in the home), the employment of an outside childminder (with AFEAMA, family assistance for the employment of a registered childminder) or the withdrawal from the workforce of one of the two parents (with APE, the parental education benefit). This trend continued into the 1990s and thus the proportion of children in nurseries has remained constant while the number of children in individual child care has increased. Current arrangements for the care of young children include a number of national and local measures. The services offered try, as far as possible, to take into account the child’s development. Essential as it is, the quality of child care is not the subject of in-depth analysis here. The French system is one of the most generous in Europe and offers parents a great diversity of types of child care. However, it is not perfect for all that. It does not cover all the country’s needs and the various possibilities are not accessible to all families. In addition, the system has been complicated by an accumulation of new benefits whose redistributive effects and impact on making work accessible to women are largely unknown. The new government proposes changing state intervention but the precise terms of these changes are still vague and are to be dealt with in the next conference on the family.
French to English: Business text General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Retail
Source text - French Avant de réagir face à un concurrent, il faut en comprendre les forces-faiblesses. Il faut cerner pourquoi les clients ne cessent de croître, quelles sont leurs motivations de fréquentation, quels sont leurs profils ? Désormais, il existe de nombreuses études quantitatives et qualitatives permettant d'isoler les huit facteurs de succès du hard discount et en même temps de comprendre pourquoi et où son succès fut moindre. • Regagner le contrôle de ses dépenses Tous les clients des hypermarchés le savent bien : on en sort toujours en ayant acheté bien plus que ce que l'on s'était fixé en y entrant. Cette situation qui fait la richesse des hypermarchés fait la détresse des ménages de chômeurs, ou des ménages surendettés ou des retraités ou même de tout un chacun. Pour en sortir, if faut donc ne plus entrer dans un hypermarché, mais dans un magasin qui ne propose qu'un produit par unité de besoin. Ce que veulent les clients du hard discount ce n'est pas acheter les produits les moins chers, mais réduire leur facture globale des courses : recontrôler leurs dépenses. § Regagner du pouvoir d'achat Le besoin de regagner du pouvoir d'achat à tous prix a été exacerbé par le sentiment que le passage à l'euro fut l'occasion de réajustements de tous les prix à la hausse menés par la grande distribution. Il est vrai que tout un pays changeant de monnaie d'un jour à l'autre, les repères de ce qui était cher ou non ont été bousculés. Ceci a contribué à faire perdre aux hypermarchés leur image de discounter, de prix bas. • L'image prix des hypermarchés s'est dégradée En France, les hypermarchés ont fait de leur marque-enseigne une arme de bataille et surtout de rentabilité. Pour contrebalancer l'attractivité intrinsèque des grandes marques, leur « privilège de demande » pour reprendre l'expression d'O. Géradon de Véra, ils ont accentué la part de marché de la marque-enseigne par « pression de l'offre » : mises en avant, part de linéaire, et surtout écart de prix, Mais, pour accroître leur pression sur le client, plutôt que diminuer les prix de la marque enseigne, ils ont plutôt accentué l'écart avec les grandes marques en augmentant le prix de celles-ci. Or, ce sont elles qui fixent les repères du niveau de prix d'un magasin aux yeux des clients. De plus l'évolution de la décoration intérieure des hypermarchés tels Auchan ou Carrefour n'a pu que renforcer ce sentiment. • La loi sur les trente-cinq heures On dispose désormais d'un certain recul pour apprécier l'impact de cette loi sur les comportements. Il apparaît que les consommateurs ne veulent profiter de leur gain de temps pour faire plus de choses, mais pour faire les choses dans le calme, d'une façon plus sereine.	Translation - English Faced with a competitor, we need to understand his strengths and weaknesses before reacting. We need to determine why his customers continue to grow in number, why they go there and what their profiles are. There are by now many quantitative and qualitative studies which allow us to identify the eight factors in the success of discount stores and at the same time to understand why and where they have been least successful. - Regaining control of expenditure Hypermarket customers are all well aware that they always leave with much more than they had set out to buy on arrival. This state of affairs, which brings wealth to the hypermarkets, causes problems to the unemployed, the retired, those deeply in debt or anyone at all for that matter. To escape this situation, the solution is to stop going to hypermarkets and go instead to shops which offer only one product for each need. What customers of hard discount stores want is not to buy the cheapest products, but to reduce their total shopping bill and regain control of their expenditure. - Regaining purchasing power The need to regain purchasing power at all price levels has been intensified by the feeling that the transition to the euro was an opportunity for all prices to be increased, led by the large supermarket chains. It is true that when a whole country changes currency overnight, the benchmarks for what is expensive or not are shaken up. This has been a contributory factor in hypermarkets losing their image of discounting and low prices. - Hypermarkets’ price image has been damaged In France, hypermarkets have made their own brand into a weapon, particularly of profitability. In order to counterbalance the inherent attractiveness of the big brand names, their “demand advantage”, to use Olivier Géradon de Véra’s phrase, they have highlighted their own-brand share of the market by offer pressure” through promotions, share of shelf-space and above all price differentials. But, in order to increase their pressure on the customer, rather than lower the price of their own brand, they have highlighted the differential by increasing the price of the brand names. Now, it is the latter which fix the benchmark of a shop’s price level in the customers’ eyes. What’s more, the way in which the interior decoration of hypermarkets such as Auchan and Carrefour has evolved can only have reinforced this feeling. - The thirty-five hour week law We can now stand back and assess the impact this law has had on behaviour. It seems that consumers do not want to use their extra time to do more, but to do things in a more calm and composed way.

Graduate diploma - Chartered Institute of Linguists

Years of experience: 13. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2009.

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French to English (Chartered Institute of Linguists, verified)
French (University of Glasgow, verified)

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MA Hons (2.1) in French Language & Literature, University of Glasgow
Diploma in Translation (French to English), Chartered Institute of Linguists
Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, Associate member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting

After teaching French at secondary school level for over 25 years, I decided in 2009 that it was time for a change and left teaching to pursue a career in translating.

My other interests are reading (almost anything, in French or English, including children's fiction), knitting, birdwatching and walking.

I entered the John Dryden Translation Competition, run by the British Comparative Literature Association, in 2012 and received a letter of commendation from the judges for my translation of part of Marie-Hélène Lafon's novel L'annonce (see http://www.bcla.org/tcresult.htm)

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