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Address: Abu Dhabi/UAE, Abu Dhabi, 009712, United Arab Emirates
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Phone: 00971566203776 Joined: Mar. 31, 2008, last update Nov. 19, 2009  Preferred E-mail of Moutaz Abdo: send a message
Working Language Pairs | TOP |
English > Arabic, Arabic > English, Japanese > Arabic, Arabic > Japanese, French > Arabic, Spanish > Arabic, Portuguese > Arabic, Italian > Arabic, German > Arabic
Language locales: Arabic - United Arab Emirates, Arabic - Lebanon, Arabic - Syria, English - United Kingdom, English - United States
Editing, Proofreading, Translation Subject Areas | TOP |
Advertising, Agriculture, Anthropology, Art, Child Care, Criminology, Culinary Arts, Ecology, Economics, Education, Fire Protection, Food Sciences, Forestry, Genealogy/Family History Research, General, Hospitality, Islamic Studies, Law and Legal, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine (General), Medicine - Medical Technology, Medicine - Psychiatry, Medicine - Public Health Education and Promotion, Medicine - Social Psychology, Military Technologies, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education Teaching and Coaching, Political Science, Psychology, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Religion, Sociology, Theatre, Tourism and Travel, Transportation
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Freelance Translator
Mob : +971 56 620 3776
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Moutaz Hasan Abdo
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To produce an as-natural-as-possible translation from Arabic into English and vice versa, from Japanese into Arabic and vice versa. My long-term objective is to include the other languages I can speak in my "translation project.
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2000~2007 English Literature Damascus University
2000~2004 Spanish, French, Italian & Portuguese Damascus University
2003~2005 Japanese Damascus University
2005~2006 Japanese Culture & Language Tokyo University
2007~2008 German Goethe Institute, Syria
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Freelance translator & Interpreter
English
2005~up to date CanproGlobal Canada
Certis Cisco Hong Kong
Syria Trust for Development Damascus, Syria
al-Noor Hospital Abu Dhabi, UAE
National Security Institute Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abu Dhabi Police Abu Dhabi, UAE
· Interpreted for an American professor of University of Missouri, in a field tour she took in some Syrian schools.
· Interpreted for an American consultant from WolrdBank in a field tour he took in some Syrian schools in which Worldlinks program was implemented.
· Translated some newsletters and lectures on environmental education by Ecobia from Japanese into English.
· Translated newspaper articles, some prescriptions, etc. from Arabic into English and vice versa.
· Extremely proficient in MS Office 2007, in internet browsing and searching, and willing to learn any new things to further improve my skills.
· Worked for al-Noor Hospital as a part-time translator from English into Arabic and vice versa. The translation includes medical reports, handbooks, contracts, etc.
· Translated over 300 security courses, contracts, CVs, reports, handbooks, certificates, application forms, questionnaires, etc. for CanproGlobal, Certis Cisco and NSI.
2005~2007 ASIA NEWS & Ecobia, Damascus, Syria
TUFS Tokyo, Japan
Japanese
· Interpreted for ASIA NEWS journalists.
· Translated a Japanese play with the title of Zizinia into Egyptian colloquial Arabic which was performed in TUFS.
· Translated a Japanese comic book called Hi no tori (fireball), some Japanese songs and some other miscellaneous items such as Japanese film posters, etc.
· Translated some articles about the activities that took place in Japanese Cultural Fair from Arabic into Japanese. The articles were published in Albal, a weekly magazine sponsored by JICA.
· Translated some newsletters and lectures on environmental education by Ecobia from Japanese into Arabic.
· Translated a financial statement from Japanese into English.
Japammm
Feb 2006~Sept2007 Damascus University Damascus, Syria
Japanese Teacher
· Followed a Japanese teacher training course in the training center in the Higher Language Institute (formerly the High Foreign Languages Center) in Damascus University.
· Taught Japanese to first-level students in the Higher Language Institute in Damascus University.
· Took part in and ran the kanji (Chinese characters) booth in the Japanese Culture Fair which took place in Damascus University in 5/5/2006.
· Assisted Japanese language students perform an extract from the Japanese version of “Le petit prince” (the little prince) in the Japanese Speech Contest.
· Suggested typing each lesson’s vocabulary in Japanese, Arabic and English and handing it out to students in order to make it easier to run the whole lesson in Japanese.
2005 ~ 2008
Arabic Teacher
· Made an Arabic grammar book for JICA volunteers explaining Arabic grammar in Japanese.
· Created over 40 lessons in Syrian colloquial Arabic and standard Arabic intended for all levels of students.
· Translated some short stories from English, Spanish and Japanese into Arabic, just to give the students an idea how some expressions in their languages can be put in good Arabic.
· Gave private lessons in Arabic to English-speaking people, Spanish-speaking people and Japanese people.
· Taught both standard Arabic and Syrian colloquial Arabic using very recent articles, songs, Syrian soap operas, etc. as teaching materials.
· Adopted a unique way of teaching Arabic and simplifying it to foreign students by creating conversations that reflect Arabic as it is spoken today.
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Reading, learning languages, cooking, , watching documentaries.
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ARABIC, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Chinese( learning)
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· International Student Exchange Program of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Completion Certificate.
· Damascus University awarded bachelor’s degree in English literature.
· Best Student Certificate , Goethe Institute
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Date of Birth & Nationality
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1/3/1980 of Syrian origin
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- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Photoshop
- PowerPoint
- TRADOS
- Wordfast
- MS Office
ADSL connection
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