Career / Experience

My career experience goes back to 1991 when I was sent first to work in London and then Moscow for Beaulieu, the Belgian carpet and rug factory owned by the De Clerq family.
I was mainly in charge of running the office in Moscow although we also had a huge clientele base in Saint Petersburg.
I worked for this company for four years, during which I also did free lance interpreting work for companies like Sanyo, BMW and Mercedes.
After that I moved to Spain and the Canary Islands where obviously I had to learn Spanish and ended up working for a host of organisations, like insurance companies, hotels, police, travel companies and restaurants and pubs. I translated menus, court documents, insurance papers, medical papers etc, etc.

   Pricing / Other services

Services I provide are: Translating, interpreting, voice over, proof reading, teaching, editing in 6 different languages.
Flemish and French are my main languages and I speak, write and read them fluently. Russian is next on a par with Spanish and probably an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 for these three subjects. Spanish follows closely and then German. Italian would be alright for proof reading and voice over but not for teaching or translation. Prices are as follows: Translation work:
Flemish, German, Spanish and French to English: £120 per 1,000 words. Russian to English: £150 per 1,000 words.
English into Flemish, German, Spanish and French: £135 per 1,000 words and English into Russian: £175 per 1,000 words. Minimum charge for any translation work is £50.
Interpreting charges: Consecutive: Flemish, German, Spanish and French to English: £300 per day. Russian to English: £400 per day.
English into Flemish, French, German, Russian and Spanish: £600 per day.
Simultaneous interpreting is a flat rate of £800 a day, no matter what language combination or subject.

   Certification / Accreditation

Flemish > Russian

The court house of Dendermonde in Belgium certified me