Ann-Christine Aida Nassar-Pateffoz

"Translating languages and bridging cultures"

France

Mother Tongues:
Arabic, Swedish

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Contact Information

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Address: 38, bd de l’Université, Dijon, 21000, France (show map )
Phone: +0033 (0)3 80 36 87 60, Cell Phone: +0033 (0)6 16 57 01 46

Joined: Sep. 23, 2004, last update Nov. 6, 2008

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Working Language Pairs
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Swedish > Arabic, French > Arabic, English > Arabic, Arabic > Swedish

Services
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Copywriting, Interpreting, Interpreting - Court/Legal, Interpreting - Medical, Interpreting - Phone, Subtitling, Teaching, Translation, Typesetting, Voice-Over

Specialization
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Immigration, poetry, songs,
political science, linguistics, litterature, tales, stories and pedagogical material.

Subject Areas
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Advertising, Bible and Biblical Studies, Child Care, Criminology, Culinary Arts, Ecology, Economics, Education, Film and Cinema Studies, Genealogy/Family History Research, General, Geography, Health, Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Islamic Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Religion, Religion and Religious Studies, Science (General), Sociology, Theatre, Theology and Theological Studies, Tourism and Travel, Women Studies

Voice-Over

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Voice Languages:	Arabic - Jordan, Swedish - Sweden
Voice Gender:	Female Voice
Voice Ages:	Middle Age Adult
Type of Recording:	Audio Books, Documentaries, Interactive Voice Response Telecom Applications (IVR), Narration, Promos and Commercials, Real People

Detailed Description and Voice Samples

Background

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Ann-Christine Aida Nassar-Pateffoz

38, bd de l’Université

21000 Dijon –France

Tel. : +0033 (0)3 80 36 87 60

Languages

Arabic and Swedish (native speaker)
French (since 1998)
English (since childhood)

Translating culture into language.

Education

2002 Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Score 263/300.

1999 Diplôme d´Etudes Françaises, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon.

1997 Master of Arts in Arabic (minor in Middle Eastern Studies) from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

1991 Courses in English at the City Lit in London, England.

Translation Experience

Ongoing Translation and Interpreting Assignments

Translator of legal documents, letters, appeals, receipts, CVs, attestations and certificates, among other documents, from Arabic, English and French into Swedish.
Translator of health-related information sheets dealing with maternity, breast-feeding, gay rights, etc, from Swedish into Arabic.
Sworn translator, French into Swedish, for the police and the Cour d'appel (High Court).
Over 1000 hours of French <> Arabic interpretation for the Criminal Investigation Department and the Border Service, Dijon.

Representative Ad Hoc Assignments

Translated medical documents EN > SV.
Translated food label documents EN > AR.
Translated skin care documents EN > SV.
Translated legal documents FR > SV.
Translated Astid Lindgren's story 'Emil i Lönneberga', SV > AR.
Translated a much debated article about the Lars Vilks affair, SV > AR.
Translated a user manual for diabetics, SV > AR.
Translated a user manual EN > SV for industrial engineers.
Interpreter and translator EN <> AR <> FR for the Border Service at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Translated 20 stories AR > SV for Dr Zuhayr al-Adhami, senior visiting lecturer at the University of Uppsala.
Guide, interpreter and trainee for Caritas Internationalis in Lebanon. Accompanied Caritas Sweden groups inspecting ongoing projects. Updated all projects (receipts, file creation, data entry) for which Caritas Sweden was responsible.