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Yigal Brown

Yigal Brown





Israel

Mother Tongue: Russian


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Contact Information

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Address: n/a, Ramat-Gan,  52376, Israel
Phone: +972-544335622, Cell Phone: +972-544335622

Joined: Saturday, July 30, 2005, last update Saturday, December 27, 2008
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Working language pairs and rates:

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Min. rate
per word
Min. rate
per hour
English > Russian
$0.05
$15.00
USD
Hebrew > Russian
$0.05
$15.00
USD
Russian > Hebrew
$0.07
$20.00
USD

Services

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Closed Captioning, Editing, Interpreting, Interpreting – Phone, Localization, Project Management, Proofreading, Research, Subtitling, Teaching, Terminology Research, Transcription, Translation

Specialization

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IT, communications, manuals, movies translation, subtitling, tapes transcription, microsoft

Subject Areas

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Anthropology, Applied Mathematics, Art, Banking and Financial, Bible and Biblical Studies, Biochemistry, Biomedical, Biometrics, Biopsychology, Biostatistics, Biotechnology, Broadcast Journalism, Business Administration and Management, Business General, Business Marketing, Child Care, Civil Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Engineering, Computer Games and Gambling, Electronic Games, Games of Chance, Culinary Arts, Data Communications, Data Processing, Design and Applied Arts, Desktop Publishing (DTP), Ecology, Economics, Education, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Film and Cinema Studies, Finance, General, Genetics, Geography, Geology, Health, Heating Air Condition And Refrigeration, History, Hospitality, Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Information Sciences and Systems, Internet, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law and Legal, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine (General), Medicine - Medical Technology, Medicine - Neuroscience, Medicine - Nursing, Medicine - Pharmacology, Medicine - Psychiatry, Medicine - Public Health Education and Promotion, Medicine - Social Psychology, Metallurgical Engineering, Military Technologies, Mining and Mineral Engineering, Mining And Petroleum Technology, Music History and Literature, Oil and Gas Engineering, Petrochemistry, Petroleum Engineering, Philosophy, Photographic Arts, Photography, Physical Education Teaching and Coaching, Political Science, Psychology, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Religion, Religion and Religious Studies, Science (General), Sociology, Software Engineering, Sport and Fitness, Taxation, Telecommunications, Textile Sciences and Engineering, Theatre, Theology and Theological Studies, Tourism and Travel, Transportation, Women Studies, Zoology

Background

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RUSSIAN - USD 0.05/word or USD 16.00/hour for projects over 20K words / 60 hours.


English and Hebrew into Russian

Translation, Editing, Proofreading, Language Quality Inspection, Terminology research

email: yigal.mobile@gmail.com
phone: +972-547935622 (in Israel)
address: Ramat-Gan, Israel
Languages: Russian (native), English, Hebrew
Computer literacy: WinXP, MS Office, Internet
CAT: Trados 7 Freelance
Maximum workload: up to 4000 words/day
Regular workload: 2500 words/day
Payment terms: USD 0.05-0.08 /word, USD 16.00-26.00/hour depending on the task, min USD 10.00. Cash, wire, PayPal, etc.

Work eligibility:

USA, Russian Federation, Israel

Education:

1998-2004 MBA (IT management), Tel-Aviv University, Israel (unfinished)

1991-1998 MA Linguistics (English, German), Irkutsk State Linguistics University, Russia

Work experience:

Different freelance projects (10 years of experience in the field):

subtitling for television
technical translations for the Israeli IT industry
consecutive translations (business, banking, social work, IT-courses)
language quality inspections (Russian) for different translation agencies

Major clients:

Microsoft subsidiaries, Gilat Telecommunications, Elrom Studios, "Israel Plus" TV channel


Average metrics for "per hour" projects:

Translation+Editing - 300 words/hour
Proofing (target only, minor consistancy checks) - 3000 words/hour

Language Quality Inspection (full inspection, no implementation) - 1000 words/hour + fixed time needed for the glossary/instructions review
Language Quality Inspection (full inspection + implementation) - 900 words/hour + fixed time needed for the glossary/instructions review

Subtitling/Closed captioning 25 minutes/hour
Translation for subtitling 4-8 minutes/hour depending on the text/min density


 



Software

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  • Adobe Acrobat
  • PowerPoint
  • TRADOS

Platform & Hardware

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Pentium IV

Membership

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Israeli Translators Association



Payment Options

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Yigal Brown accepts payments through the following payment processors:



Make secure payment to Yigal Brown through Western Union


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