Working languages:
Hungarian to German
English to German
French to German

Paula Albert
Bridging Language Gaps between People

Switzerland
Local time: 00:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: German (Variant: Swiss) Native in German
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D: Spezialisiert auf juristische Texte - E: specialising in legal texts - F: spécialisée en textes juridiques - HU: külön szakterület: jogi szövegek
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CAT-Tools: OmegaT, CafeTran Espresso (compatible with TRADOS-packages and with Memsource-files), upon request: Memsource Cloud or TRADOS Cloud (monthly per project, both Mac-compatible)

Linguistic work experience, partially combined with or parallel to legal or administrative positions. Since July 2016, partial development into photography/arts, a consequence of designing my own website and of my photographing hobby-activities and my side-obligation while working as an editor and journalist. You can find several pictures and pieces of art at 500px.com, dreamstime.com, printart.ch, fotalia.com and fine art america.

since 02/1997: freelance translator (English-German/French-German/Hungarian-German and German-English/German-Hungarian),
also language teacher E/F/HU, both freelance and employed in several projects
One shouldn't translate into a foreign language, but in professional reality it often happens, esp. if you are asked by an employer to do so. So was I, among others, I did some technical and patent translations from German into French and English and some scientific translations from German into English, also Doctor-works of students of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich).

3/2012-10 (11)/2014: Hungarian Interpreter in a major labour-law and social-insurances law case, partially with private legal consulting and representation in an administrative case in Switzerland, even a few months afterwards

since 06/2008: negotiation interpreter for social and medical institutions

(2002 +) 2003-2012: community interpreter (negotiations) on standby for various authorities, mainly penal law (German, English, Hungarian, exceptionally oral and regular for written translations: also French)
Several extra-long negotiations (up to 7-8h non-stop), some at night, steady readiness to work on standby

10/1999-10/2007: Hungarian Teacher
Classes for Hungarian beginners I & II

01/1996-01/1997 Second Editor for a monthly crafspeople's magazine
- Prepared and edited articles
- Wrote own technical and general articles in the relevant fields, incl. taking photos for articles
- Pre-print check, proofread etc.
- Holiday replacement for my boss:
Sole responsibility of one magazine edition during my boss’s summer holidays for two weeks; despite traditional summer deficit-edition: turn into a surplus-edition, savings through good photo-change in print-check

03/1995-07/1997: English Teacher for a large multi-national company supplementary classes for commercial apprentices 2nd & 3rd year, exam preparation for the final exams: Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading and Listening Skills

07/1994-present: various other linguistic/administrative work experiences, more upon request

Education:

2007: Graduation as a Master of Law UZH (second education as a working student), including exchange year with French at the University of Fribourg/CH (penal and penal procedure law/droit pénal et droit de procédure pénal; law history/histoire du droit)

1993-94 Hungarian Studies Programs at JATE University, H-Szeged

1993 Graduation as a qualified translator of Interpreters' School, Zurich (English-German/French-German/German-English), including exchange semester at Aston University, GB-Birmingham
Keywords: E: Legal translations: divorce decisions, company foundation, penal decisions, police hearings, law of succession, Landlord & Tenant Law, Loan and Brokerage Contract, Package Holiday Law, ... HU: Jogi fordítások: válási ítéletek, cég alapítás. See more.E: Legal translations: divorce decisions, company foundation, penal decisions, police hearings, law of succession, Landlord & Tenant Law, Loan and Brokerage Contract, Package Holiday Law, ... HU: Jogi fordítások: válási ítéletek, cég alapítás, büntetési ítéletek, rendőrségi hallgatások, öröklési jog, bérleti jog, kölcsön és alkusz szerződés, utazási jog, ... D: Juristische Übersetzungen: Scheidungsurteile, Firmengründungen, Strafrechtliche Urteile, polizeiliche Befragungen, Erbrecht, Mietrecht, Darlehens- und Mäklervertrag, Reiserecht, ... F: Traductions légales: décisions de divorce et pénales, fondation d'entreprises, droit successorale, droit de bail, contrat de prêt et de courtage immobilier, droit du tourisme et du voyage, .... See less.


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Aug 27, 2019