Tosoni Tamara

Freelance translator and proof-reader since 1998 : I translate from ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN and SPANISH ONLY into ITALIAN.
My fields are mainly marketing, journalism/media, multimedia, tourism, subtitling, adaptation for advertisements, and videogames localisation.
I also deal with slightly technical texts, medicine and HR. I can use and own many CAT TOOLS like OmegaT, SDLX, Dèjàvu, Across, and SDL Trados 7.2. I am keen in Internet searches techniques and Boolean variables.
In the field of VIDEOGAMES I co-operate – with no intermediaries – with Microsoft Games Studios Ireland and Codemasters UK. Up to know I have been translating various game scripts, manuals, etc. Just to mention a few: Kingdom Under Fire , SceneIT , PGR4, Ninja gaiden 2, GRID … For Codemasters UK I've localised "Overlord: Dark Legend" for the Wii platform (I am in the credits) and did other minor projects.
I also co-operate with other minor videogames publishers: i.e. I’ve recently worked on the German to Italian localisation of an edutainment game created with the aim to teach French to Italian kids. In the summer of 2007 I was involved with the translation (from English and French into Italian ) of Dogz & Catz – by Ubisoft. I also work as QA, particularly I took part in the QA process for Dead or alive, volleyball 2, and Viva Piñata.
LITERATURE translation, SUBTITLING, MULTIMEDIA and ADAPTATION:
•Humoristic Book - Liefde gaat ZOO –by Davy De Witte - Dutch/French into Italian
•European City guides from English into Italian
•Children book “Salvatore der Medifant"– by Elfie Donnelly & Paul Aratò- German into Italian
•Subtitling of : X-country documentary , Queens logics, Scars of Dracula , Heavens Above, Poltergeist (TV series), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Planet Of The Apes (TV), I dream of Jeannie S1 – English into Italian
•Various advertisements adaptations – English/German into Italian
•Adaptation for a fashion magazine – English/French/Spanish into Italian
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MARKETING and HR:
•HR questionnaire (90k words) PAPI-type – English into Italian
•Documents related to the "Venice Biennale" - English/Dutch into Italian
•Localisation of an ERP Help-file - English into Italian
•Newsletters – English, German and French into Italian
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MEDICINE:
•Supraglottic airways manuals – English into Italian
•Research presentation about osteoporosis - German into Italian
•Pulse-oximeter manuals – German into Italian
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DISTANCE LEARNING TUTOR:
•Online course writer and distance learning tutor: created an e- course titled “Italian for the tourist” – 10 lessons, with live tutoring (http://www.newcurioshop.com)
Abroad experiences linked with translation:
•1 year in Germany, Dresden
•3 months in Norway, Geiranger
•3 month in Spain, Barcelona
•Long stays in the UK, France and Luxembourg
EDUCATION:
•MA in Translation – University of the West of England - Bristol - UK
•German terminology course in IT, Technique, Economy, Media and Psychology branches - Goethe Institute – Germany
•Postgraduate certificate in Technical Translation and electronic tools – University of Rovira i Virgili - Spain
•Postgraduate certificate in editing and revising technical texts in English – University of Rovira i Virgili – Spain
•80 ECT in audio-visual and multimedia communication technology – University of Ferrara - Italy -
•3 months Spanish language crash course – University of Barcelona - Spain
•Certificate in English for journalism – London school of journalism – UK
•Postgraduate certificate in human rights- Co-operation between the University of Loja ( Ecuador) and Prodevir (Argentina)
•German language crash course (nearly 800 hrs: one academic year) at the TUDIAS - Dresden – Germany
•Certificate in web mastering – Dresden - Germany
•2 years English and Russian literatures and languages degree at the university of Verona – Italy
•High school leave as Expert in foreign languages (English and French) for business – Italy
Foreign languages:
Italian: native
English: very good
Spanish: very good
German: good
French: very good
Dutch basic/good passive
Russian: basic
CAT TOOLS:
SDL TRADOS 2007
Multiterm Desktop 7
Few proprietary subtitling software – depends on clients’ requests + PDF professional, PDF2Words, Anycount…
I have a broad knowledge of web mastering and design: Dreamweaver and Photoshop are my favourite.
IOL MEMBER

• Across
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• Déjà Vu
• OmegaT
• PowerPoint
• Robohelp
• SDLX Translation Suite
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Trados, multiterm, pdf2word, adobe, photoshop, dreamweaver