Samira (samirads)

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About 8 years ago Female
Portugal
Italian (Native) English Portuguese (Portugal) (Native)

Living in Porto, Portugal, for 7 years, I am a freelance translator with many interests such as arts, literature, languages and architecture, my area of specialty. While English is the only foreign language I actually studied, Romance languages, having had Latin all trough high school, were relatively easy to pick and are proficiently used in my everyday life.
History
Born in Cape Verde, I grew up and did my basic schooling in Italy where my attraction for architecture begun. I've moved to Portugal and graduated in architecture; in Italy I later did my curricular traineeship. I've since worked in my academic field throughout Portugal until I've elected Porto city as my favorite place to settle, and moved here since 2009.
I am bilingual, Italian and Portuguese, while fluent in 5 languages, I therefore occasionally utilize this proneness working in the hospitality and tourism fields, as well as for translating and teaching.
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A viver em Portugal, no Porto, sou tradutora freelance com muitas áreas de interesse, desde as artes, à literatura, línguas e arquitetura, a minha área profissional. Enquanto o inglês é a única língua estrangeira que tenha propriamente estudado, aprendi e utilizo sem dificuldade a maioria das línguas neolatinas, sendo fluente em 5.
Vida
Natural de Cabo Verde, cresci e fiz toda a escolaridade em Itália onde desenvolvi o gosto pela arte e a arquitetura, tendo aí regressado para desenvolver o estágio curricular do curso. Transferi-me para Portugal e licenciei-me em Arquitetura pela Universidade de Coimbra em 2006. Até à data trabalhei em gabinetes de arquitetura em Almada, Albufeira, Lagos e Porto, onde resido desde 2009.
Bilingue, falo corretamente 5 línguas e ocasionalmente utilizo essa vertente trabalhando na área da hospitalidade e do turismo, bem como na da tradução e do ensino particular.
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Traduttrice freelance, vivo a Porto da 7 anni. Bilingue e poliglotta, ho diverse aree d'interesse, ampia cultura generale e meticolosità estrema.

Work Experience

Term Company Department
2007/1 - 2016/6 Freelance Arquitect/3d modeler
2004/12 - 2004/12 Bilingual interpreter
2000/8 - 2005/10 Freelance 3d modeler
1995/12 - 2000/2 Legal Documents Translator

Education

Term Institution
1996/10 - 2006/10 Arquitetura, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
1990/9 - 1995/6 Liceo Scientifico Aristotele, Roma – Italia
1987/9 - 1990/6 Scuola Media Cesare Battisti, Roma – Italia
1983/4 - 1987/6 Scuola Elementare Colle di Mezzo, Roma – Italia

History of Residence

Term Country State City
2009/5 - Portugal Porto
2008/1 - 2009/5 Portugal Lagos
2007/7 - 2008/1 Portugal Albufeira
2007/1 - 2007/7 Portugal Almada
1996/10 - 2006/10 Portugal Coimbra
1995/11 - 1996/10 Cape Verde Praia
1983/4 - 1995/11 Italy Roma
1983/1 - 1983/4 Portugal Lisboa
1976/5 - 1983/1 Cape Verde Praia

Work History

LEVEL & LANGUAGE PAIR Market Projects
(Completed / In Progress)
Standard Requests
(Translation Jobs / Total Words Translated)
Light Requests
(Translation Jobs / Total Words Translated)
Senior English ≫ Italian 2 5  / 1740 6  / 3654
Senior English ≫ Portuguese (Portugal) 1 1  / 8913 0  / 0
Starter Italian ≫ English 1 0  / 0 0  / 0
Starter Portuguese (Portugal) ≫ English 1 0  / 0 0  / 0
Starter Portuguese (Portugal) ≫ Italian 0 0  / 0 0  / 0
Starter Italian ≫ Portuguese (Portugal) 0 0  / 0 0  / 0

Working Data

Working Hours
last 6 months (hour / month)
Submission Rate
(submission count / order count)
0 hour / month 100 % (8 / 8)