Irina Orlova

Certified translator from/to English/Chinese, having worked in the position of the freelance since 1998 and gained the edequate experience in the fields of medical, technical, business translation.

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Country	Russia
Address	131, 4/2, Voronkova st., Blagoveschensk, Amur region, Russia 675028 Blagoveschensk
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LANGUAGES	English - Russian (native) Russian - English Chinese - Russian
EDUCATION	September 1983 – May 1987 Yuzhno-Sakhalin Medical college Qualification: Doctor`s assistant; Medical diploma was obtained in May 1987. September 1997 – June 2002 Amur State University, Philological department. Qualifications: Higher education diploma: Linguistics and intercultural communication; Linguist/Translator/Interpreter from/to English and Chinese (Mandarin) entitled to teach English and linguistic courses. Currently: ECDL ( European Computer Driving License) in purpose and with the prospect to obtain the certificate.
SPECIALIZATION	medical, technical, business, patents, advertising, linguistics, education, fiction, poetry.
EXPERIENCE	May 1987 – May 1997 Yuzhno-Sakhalin Ambulance Service. Position: Doctor`s assistant in a reanimation brigade. September 2002 – May 2003 Philological Faculty of the Amur State University, Translation Department. Position: Teacher. Responsibilities: teaching 4th year students English, Theory of Translation, Practice of Translation, Technical translation. May 1998 up to present: Freelance translator of business and technical texts, and various kinds of written material or documentation from/to English. Interpreter on a sporadic basis. Private tutor of English for students aged from 5 to 17 y.o. as well as for adults (26 students in all) on the base of wide range of courses published in the UK.
EQUIPMENT	PC Windows 98. Printer, scanner. Trados. Installed Cambridge Dictionary of English. Installed Dictionary of Advanced English (British and American version). Installed ABBYY Lingvo with attached dictionaries of idioms, technical and business language, English collocations, thesaurus etc. English/English and Russian/Russian explanatory dictionaries. Various books on guiding principles of business correspondence. English/Russian, Russian/English Dictionary (250,000 entries). Longman Dictionary of English. English/Russian Dictionary of Medical Terms. Russian/Chinese and Chinese/Russian dictionary for more than 120,000 words and collocations. English/Chinese Dictionary of English Grammar. Chinese/English dictionary. Extensive personal library. Encyclopaedia (12 volumes).