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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.

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

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

I am a native czech translator with over 10 years of experience. I have experience in number of fields, such as culture, business or history.

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

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 work as translator since 2008. My daily capacity is approx 2,000 - 3,000 words for translation, resp. 5,000 words for proofreading. It depends on the text. During my translation career I have worked with user manuals, technical documents, financial statements, computer games, marketing materials like PR, HR documens, leaflets, surveys, web pages, sport interviews, personal letters, books, travel guides etc... I do not translate natural sciences like physics, chemistry and law.

Long time professional in construction management changed to translator and interpreter. Keen traveller and photographer.

I am responsible and detail-oriented translator and proofreader.

Scientific and market translations from 2012. Collaboration with DUX Translation, London; Lionbridge, Mumbai; T&T Academy, Warsaw; ArcusLink, Łodź translations agencies Own business since 2018.

I am a professional Czech linguist offering complex translation & related services incl. review, monolingual proofreading, post-editing, transcription, etc. I have excellent command of the target language, attention for detail and linguistic nuances. Last, but not least, I do care about the final result and honour the intented purpose of the client.