Maria Fernandez
Contact details
London
NW5 4QA
United Kingdom
NW5 4QA
United Kingdom
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Transcreation
Translating
Sub-editing
Transcreation
Translating
Sub-editing
Language pairs
English > English
English > Spanish
Spanish > English
Spanish > Spanish
English > Spanish
Spanish > English
Spanish > Spanish
Areas of expertise
Business and Finance
Information Technology
Social Sciences
Information Technology
Social Sciences
Qualifications and experience
I translate historical research from English into Spanish. My proudest effort is the book Admiration & awe by the UNED historian Antonio Urquízar Herrera.
I also translate and copy-edit Spanish versions of magazines in the car, finance and IT industries. I have worked in translation since 1990.
My background is in linguistics (BA 1st, SOAS/UCL) but until recently my alternative source of income was admin, so I have lots of word processing and bookkeeping experience. I also have an MSc in translation (Imperial College London).
Continuing professional development
METMs
Workshops
- Editing humanities and social science texts: theory and practice
- Seeing bright light at the end of the tunnel: successful, efficient proofreading
- Corpus creation and analysis using AntConc 4
- How human is your workflow? Critical AI use for language professionals
- Corpus guidance: a tool for understanding professional language usage, change, and variety
- Corpus building and mining with Sketch Engine
- Editing theses and dissertations