Rodna Ruskovska

Translating worLds!

http://www.reflectivetranslation.com

Freelance Authorised Translator and Interpreter
/Translation, Transcreation, Localisation, Reviewing, Revision, Subtitling, Transcription, Interpreting/

Аvailable for urgent translations and on holidays and weekends

Language pairs:
English-Macedonian; Macedonian-English; Swedish-Macedonian;
Swedish-Serbian; Swedish-English; English – Serbian; Serbian, Croatian,
Bosnian-English; Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian-Macedonian;


* Full–time dedication
* Personalised attention
* Caring communication

* Quality assurance, guaranteeing 100% accuracy, readability and use of idiomatic language
* Carefully chosen and researched terminology
* Turning your source text into a new original
* Taking care that the translated text has a natural flow

* Data security - backup strategy (external hard drive)
* FTP transfer

* Attention to detail
* Creativity and skill
* Cultural sensitivity
* In step with industry news and trends
* CAT Tools: Trados, Wordfast

Membership:
American Association of Translators, US
Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK


- 14+ years experience (authorised court translator for English and Macedonian in 1997 and for Swedish in 2005)
- Excellent command of idiomatic Macedonian and English language and grammar;
- Ability to edit and review other translations;
- General erudition and intimate familiarity with the three cultures-Macedonian, English and Swedish.
- Lived in Stockholm, Sweden, attended Anglo-American International School, 1978 – 1983
- Strong computer/word-processing skills;
- Great attention to detail with excellent work ethics;
- Skills in research activities;
- Excellent communication skills;

Specialist fields: Law (customs, taxation, contracts, criminology); Advertising (translation of copy) and Marketing; Medical (general, occupational health and industrial hygiene, psychiatry, public health education and promotion, alternative medicine, healing and health); IT; Education (higher education, life-long learning, policies); Technical (manuals, electrical and home appliances); Human resources (policy); EU affairs (legislation, institutions, politics); Telecommunications; Social Sciences (anthropology, development studies, political science, sociology, international relations, communication); Arts (culinary arts, design and applied arts, film and cinema); Humanities and women’s studies; Poetry and Literature

Working fields: Environmental Science; Ethnic and Cultural Studies;


Available: Fast and reliable Internet connection, Wordfast, Trados

My clients include many international and national organisations and institutions.


Ongoing projects:
- Regular translation and verification work for an information service from the US:
translating news articles, features, audios, reports, round-ups etc, and revising/proofing translations of other translators;
- Services as Senior Translator for the EU Project “Support to Tax Reform” (legal translation from and into Macedonian and English)
- Regular transcreation project for a major printer and imaging products producer;
- Localisation project for a major telecommunications company.


Links to my translations available online:
• www.eujournalist-award.eu/servicenavigation/press.html (ENG-MAC)
• www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=27bfcbc4-2b1d-4381-80e0-955999a0ad64&articleId=2511590d-7e4e-41a4-ad90-8ec5985b2dba (free download of file - author Katerina Kolozova, English original, my translation into Macedonian)
• www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=847a8d20-c894-4cdf-bc19-1e6f122cb664
• www.blesok.com.mk/tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=288&str=2
• www.identities.org.mk/files /Judith%20Batler%20MAK%20vnatresni%208%20pat.pdf
• http://jasnakoteska.blogspot.com/2008/05/jasna-koteska-expansion-of-subject-2005.html
• www.pazar3.com.mk/service/Default.aspx?nodeid=5 (SWE –MAC) (part of)
• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19452788?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum (SWE – ENG)
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne04D5OF7zw&feature=channel
• www.transcript-review.org/en/issue/transcript-35-macedonia/jasna-koteska

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast