Sigrid Thorbjørnsrud

Sigrid Thorbjørnsrud

Curriculum vitae

Name:                         Sigrid Thorbjørnsrud

Date of birth:              26^th of July, 1963

Address:                    Selvbyggervn.139

                                    0591 Oslo

                                    Norway

E-mail:                                    sigridth@online.no

Nationality:                 Norwegian

Telephone:                 00 47 22 65 94 60 / 00 47 90 50 62 21

Academic degree:    Master degree (Cand.Polit), Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.

I work as an independent translator. My clients include end users in Norway and other countries, as well as Norwegian and international translation agencies.

I am offering translation from English, German, Swedish and Danish into Norwegian, as well as Norwegian and Danish into German.

I translate almost all sorts of texts, including multimedia, sports, tourism & travel, marketing, legal, social science, religion, culinary, automotive, folklore, geography, linguistics, art/literary etc.

I am also offering Norwegian and German proofreading.

The finished translation is submitted in electronic form, or by other agreement.

My recent projects include:  

• Electronic equipment: TV, Mp3, video recorder, cell phone etc 
• Web sites for online gaming, horse betting, poker, sports, casino 
• Cosmetics & nutrition catalogues/ newsletters/packaging 
• PC games, documentation, and brochures 
• Audio guides  
• Brand name checking (medical and consumer)
• Web site  for a textile company (clothes and fabrics)
• Children’s books 
• Automotive articles/web pages/newsletters  
• Environment research/studies 
• Market research questionnaires (computers, transport, automotive, medical, consumer goods) 
• Magazine articles: Fashion, interior design, wedding, child raising, cooking & traveling 
• Medical protocols, research information and medical questionnaires 
• Database for a large Nordic travel company  
• Cookbooks, recipes & restaurant menus  
• Automotive web page including everything from trucks to mobile homes 
• Travel guides / tourist information brochures 
• Toys and games

Education:

2005               Translation studies (German-Norwegian/Norwegian-German), University of Oslo.

1996               Norwegian as a second language, University of Oslo

1994               Master of Social Anthropology. (Thesis on the reunion of the two Berlins). University of Oslo.

1990               Development and environment, University of Oslo.

1988               East European studies, University of Oslo

Scholarship for German studies at the University in Regensburg, Germany.

1986-87         German studies, University of Oslo.

1984               Examen Philosophicum, University of Oslo.

1983               French studies, Alliance francaise, Paris.

1982/83          German and French studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

 1982               College.

Work experience:

I work as a full time translator. Previous work experience do also include several years of teaching Norwegian to foreign students, as well as being a project manager for several projects helping refugees and other foreigners to integrate into the Norwegian society .

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