Member since Sep '12

Working languages:
Greek to English

Peter Close
Over 50 years of experience!

Local time: 09:40 EET (GMT+2)

Native in: English Native in English
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Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter, Identity Verified Verified member
This person previously served as a ProZ.com moderator.
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Affiliations This person is not affiliated with any business or Blue Board record at ProZ.com.
Services Translation, Editing/proofreading
Expertise
Specializes in:
Business/Commerce (general)Law (general)
Law: Contract(s)Finance (general)
Law: Taxation & CustomsMedical (general)
Investment / SecuritiesTourism & Travel
Transport / Transportation / ShippingHuman Resources

Volunteer translations

Volunteer professional humanitarian translation services-

Translators without Borders

Words translated: 2,682
Volunteer / Pro-bono work Open to considering volunteer work for registered non-profit organizations
KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 1596, Questions answered: 569, Questions asked: 33
Blue Board entries made by this user  48 entries

Payment methods accepted PayPal, Wire transfer | Send a payment via ProZ*Pay
Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 3
Experience Years of experience: 52. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2012. Became a member: Sep 2012.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s)
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Software ABBYY FineReader OCR, Adobe Acrobat, DeepL, memoQ, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Pro, Microsoft Word, ABBYY Fine Reader, Office 365, PerfectIt Pro 3, ProWritingAid Pro, SDL Trados Studio Freelance 2019, Trados Studio
Website https://greekintoenglish.com/
CV/Resume English (PDF)
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Bio

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I am British by birth and descent and have lived in Greece for over 55 years.

I started learning Greek when I first went to Greece in 1960, at the age of 15, after having learned some Czech and Japanese as a child and French and German, both at home and at school.

I started translating from Greek into English in 1972, after having learned and practised Greek gradually for five years and intensively between 1966 and 1971, while I was living and working in Greece and touring the entire country regularly in the course of my job.

Between 1974 and 1978, I had an office in Lamia, in central mainland Greece, and regularly translated for Greek businessmen and farmers and often accompanied them on journeys to England and northern Europe to interpret for them on their business trips or to help them locate and select calves, dairy cattle and breeding stock.

Apart from being a translator, I was the managing shareholder of a Greek company specialising in the importation and marketing of veterinary health and industrial hygiene products between 1981 and 2012.

In the many years that I represented large UK chemical companies in Greece, I accumulated a great deal of experience in translating chemical and pharmaceutical product licensing dossiers, marketing authorisations, health and safety data sheets, technical manuals, legislation, contracts, brochure and label texts and a very wide variety of other material to and from Greek and English, and the constant practice I had in translating such texts is proving invaluable to me now.

By having represented UK manufacturers, I was able to maintain the quality and fluency of my English due to having had to correspond and communicate with the export personnel of the companies on almost a daily basis.

For further information regarding my identity and experience, please request a copy of my CV.

This user has earned KudoZ points by helping other translators with PRO-level terms. Click point total(s) to see term translations provided.

Total pts earned: 1612
PRO-level pts: 1596


Language (PRO)
Greek to English1596
Top general fields (PRO)
Law/Patents721
Bus/Financial367
Other252
Tech/Engineering128
Medical84
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Top specific fields (PRO)
Law (general)487
Law: Contract(s)215
Finance (general)152
Economics56
Business/Commerce (general)52
Accounting52
Medical (general)48
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Nov 22



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