| Translator's name: | Amira Abbass |
| Language pair: | English to Arabic translator |
| Country of residence: | Egypt |
| Activity: | Active since 2023 |
| Membership status: | Basic member |
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AMIRA ABBASS CONTACT Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 59200 +601156813415 amira.abbass.ali@gmail.com CORE QUALIFICATIONS • Translation & Captioning • Consecutive & Simultaneous interpreting. • OTP & VIR Interpreting • Call Quality Evaluation & one-on-one Coaching LANGUAGES • Arabic: Native • English: C2 CERTIFICATIONS • Passed Core CCHI and scheduled for oral exam in August 2023 Professional Interpreter & Translator with 10 years of experience helping diverse individuals. Focused on advancing vocabulary, idiomatic and cultural understanding with up-to-date knowledge. Expert in maintaining language meaning and context for personal and professional documents. Attentive to details to produce accurate, error-free work. EXPERIENCE August 2017 - Current Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreter Freelance, Cairo, Egypt • Provides accurate interpretation and translation of critical medical information in direct service to physicians and/or other health care providers who are seeing patients who cannot speak or understand English, when specifically required by the provider. • Precisely and accurately interprets critical medical advice and information given by the provider into equivalent terminology in the patient's native language. • Establishes and maintains quality service and positive interaction with all patients, customers, visitors, health care providers, and clinical employees. Assists with patient follow-up as necessary, to include contacting patients with appointment reminders. • Accurately interpreted spoken and written conversations between different languages for clients. • Interpreted conference calls and other workplace communications in real-time to help individuals convey messages quickly. • Imparted original speakers' thoughts, tones or emotions from source to target languages without additions or omissions to convey intended meaning. • Operated simultaneous interpretation equipment appropriately for reliable results. April 2003 - Current Freelance Subtitle Translator/Document Translator Freelancer, Cairo, Cairo • Attended regular training to remain knowledgeable on current best practices. • Inspected translations word-for-word for grammar and spelling faults. • Proofread documents to remedy terminology and vocabulary errors. • Consulted with specialists to obtain information on technical information translation. • Maintained focus under pressure to deliver accurate translation services. • Adapted existing translations to meet style guidelines. • Obtained information on appropriate terms, phrases and words from specialist dictionaries. April 2017 - February 2019 Full Time Medical Interpreter LanguageLine Solutions, Cairo, Egypt EDUCATION 2023 Legal and UN Translation Diploma Legal Translation and Interpretation Post Graduate Diploma- AUC, Cairo The certificate covers legal drafting, a contrastive study of legal and UN discourse, translation of legal contracts and UN texts, and editing for international organizations such as the UN, IMF. 2022 Foundation Diploma In Translation & Interpretation Translation & Interpretation Post Graduate Diploma, Cairo • Translating effectively so that the target structure would be as close as possible to the original composition, striking a balance between naturalness and accuracy. • Transferring different grammatical functions and structures from English into Arabic and vice versa appropriately, without compromising the meaning. • Producing equivalent messages that are linguistically and grammatically clear. • Enhancing the speed of the mental translation process, in addition to providing hands-on practice of the three different modes of interpreting. 2020 ALTA 40-hour Medical Training Program Medical Interpreting Training ALTA Interpretation Roles & Techniques Basics Of The Human Body Systems Interpreter Code Of Ethics Medical Terminology Sep 2005 Bachelor Degree English Language Teaching LanguageLineHelwan University • Bachelor of Arts – Faculty of Education. • Major: English Language Teaching • Graduated May 2005 | |
