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Virtual memoQ Day 2013

May 30, 2013

Presentation

Translators Without Borders in Kenya

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Schedule:

This session ended at 15:00

Description:

At the end of last year Marek Pawelec volunteered to do a two-week training session for the team of the Translators Without Borders Health Translators Training Center in Nairobi, Kenya, and thought the ‘ins and outs’ of memoQ. Marek will share his experience and will tell you what he – as a memoQ trainer – learned from the translators living in Africa.

Language(s):

English

Speakers:

Marek Pawelec

Marek Pawelec graduated in Molecular Biology at the Jagiellonian University in 1992 and worked as researcher at faculties of Medicine and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. In 2001 began to work as a full time English to Polish freelance translator: started with literature, later also technical translations of medical, biochemical and chemical texts. Translated 31 novels and several millions pages of medical texts, mainly medical equipment manuals. Experienced computer aided translation (CAT) software user and trainer. Certified memoQ trainer. Presented lectures on several translation conferences. Teaches on practical aspects of freelance translation, CAT tools and translation related software. Interested in technical communication and terminology management.

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