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freelance translator, English-Czech

Hi! I'm Kasya and translation is my life's work. I have been doing it since 2006, first as a hobby and then professionally after graduating from Charles University in Prague. I was born in Russia. Currently based in Czechia. Since I was a teenager I have mediated between two cultures and it became my job. I have the advantage of being bilingual (Czech&Russian). My philological background helps me to capture the context and grasp every nuance of meaning. Understanding the mindset allows me to adapt texts to the target audience. I specialize in translation for the Internet space: e-commerce, SMM, marketing, SEO translation, localization of websites, apps, software, captions, subs, video, etc.

I am a multi-skilled, qualified translator with excellent communication skills and an academic background in language studies and economics. Flexible in the ability to adapt to challenges when they arise and with previous experience in both business and the not-for-profit sector. I am a quality-oriented translator who delivers accurate translations to set deadlines. The fact that I have been living and working in an English-speaking country for the past nine years enables me to translate with great precision. I believe it is crucial that translated and localized content looks, sounds and reads as natural as the original. I understand the importance of not only conveying the meaning but also the tone of the original content.

12 years of experience with in law, business, and software (UI & UA) and website localization. Background in law and linguistics, excellent command of Czech. External university teacher of legal translation, CAT tools, and translation business and marketing. Over 10 million words translated.

4 years experience with translations, post-editing, subtitling and transcribing, both English-Czech and Czech-English.

I'm a software developer with a very good level of English. I'm able to translate any text from English to Czech or vice versa. I prefer when text is about software, gaming or has a general subject.

Already while studying my bachelor and Master's degree in translation, I got a few translation projects, mainly in the field of audiovisual translation. After my graduation, I started to profile as a literary translator + a translator of (popular) science books. Other than literary and audiovisiaul translation, I have experience with translating various manuals/handbooks and general texts. Apart from translating, I have spent the last 10 years giving language classes. My students usually make quite a big progress within a small amount of time, and start really using the language.

I am responsible and detail-oriented translator and proofreader.

I have been working as a translator and a proofreader since 2010 (e. g. for Booking.com, Czech publishing house Host, Leos Janacek Museum of Music, Alterna music club etc.) thus I believe I have rather a lot of experience. I am very used to work on projects with strict deadlines. I am familiar with MemSource translating software. I just like languages and I enjoy looking for different nuances in meaning and style.

My services are fast and reliable. I can translate and proofread any topics. Czech to English and English to Czech.

I have translated dozens of applications, games, websites. I have been fansubbing The Simpsons and Silicon Valley to Czech.

My name is Lada Zahlavova and I was born on 5th January 1981 in The Czech Republic. Languages have been my passion since the very childhood and so has been also biology and writing. I have been a freelancer since 2010. before that period I worked as a tour guide and a travel agency assistant. My main branches are teaching and translating. I have been translating professionally since 2011. Since then, I have translated almost 80 thousand words of various documents. I focus mainly on Electrotechnic, legal, IT- technology, medical and food industry. Concerning of the text materials, I am able to translate a website content, marketing texts, booklets, manuals and such forms of texts like product labels and lists of ingredients. :-D