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JACOBO CURRAIS ARCAY

Translator and interpreter of English, German, Galician and Spanish. I am currently finishing my studies of Translation and Interpreting at Universidade de Vigo (Spain).
 


Curriculum vitae
Welcome to this web. My name is Jacobo Currais Arcay and I am about to achieve my degree in Translation and Interpreting at Universidade de Vigo (Spain).

I have worked as a translator for private individuals, such as the Universidade de Vigo Professor Lourdes Lorenzo, for whom I have translated the article Socrates, Empedokles und die Erkenntnisleistung der Metapher, used as documentary support for her Ph.D. project.

I have worked as an interpreter for the international contact fair Europartenariat Denmark 2000, celebrated at the Danish town of Aalborg in June 2000.

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Languages
I translate from English and German into Galician and Spanish. As an interpreter, I work with English as a source language and Galician and Spanish as target languages. I also have knowledge of French, Danish and Portuguese.
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Typology of texts
I work with all types of non-specialized texts, that is, general texts such as literature, press, etc. I am also familiar with the fields of art, ancient and classic music, economy and contracts.
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Deadlines
Translations will be returned to the client via e-mail in a maximum of seven days. Shorter deadlines may be set in case it is necessary.
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Prices
Translations will be paid by the word. The prices are as follows:
 
General Specialized
English-Galician/Spanish 10 pta/word 11 pta/word
German-Galician/Spanish 11 pta/word 12 pta/word
Companion interpreter 3,000 pta/hour 4,000 pta/hour
Consecutive interpreting 8,000 pta/hour 8,000 pta/hour
Simultaneous interpreting 13,000 pta/hour 13,000 pta/hour
Proof-reading 4 pta/word 4 pta/word
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Useful on-line data bases
Here you have some useful on-line tools which are specially interesting for the translator:
- O traductor virtual. Web site built by a former Universidade de Vigo student which contains useful on-line tools and interesting links.
- Diccionarios.com. Here you can find a series of on-line bilingual dictionaries, as well as a Spanish monolingual and a Spanish dictionary of synonyms and antonyms.
- Eurodicautom. Terminological data base in the official languages of the European Union.
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