Tourism Marketing

Freelance French - UK English Translator

Robert Calkin Translation Services

Making fashion, wine and tourism accessible to the world!

Providing translation, machine translation post-editing (MTPE) and proofreading services

Tourism Marketing

French to UK English website/brochure marketing translation: travel and tourism sector
Work covers hotels, bed and breakfasts and campsites

Projects comprise accommodation, services, catering/menus, swimming complexes, facilities, sports/leisure activities and tourist attractions

Destinations include France, Corsica, Spain, Italy and others

Translate confidentiality, privacy and GDPR notices, contact forms and miscellaneous documents

Related projects: campsite security and PowerPoint presentation on a client's digital offering

Skills/Tools/Experience

Translation, localization and SEOs: European multilingual websites

Translation tools - SDL Trados Studio 2022 Freelance with translation memories

Word count: over 1,013,631 words since May 2016

Fashion Marketing

Marketing translation and MTPE in the high-end fashion sector

Complete MTPE in branded clothing advertising (October 2020 - present)

The above is for women's and men's clothing, shoes and accessories, using termbases and translation memories in Memsource Cloud

I have undertaken fashion proofreading

Word count: MTPE - 186,200 words

Proofreading - over 450,000 words

Wine Marketing

French to UK English translation of vineyard websites

Comprises details of vineyards, including history, winemaking, vintages, wine tasting and distribution

Associated documents including terms of trading/legal notices

Skills/Tools/Experience

Translation, localization and SEOs for European multilingual websites

Related legal translation

Translation tools - SDL Trados Studio 2022 Freelance with translation memories

Word count: circa 23,680 words since July 2016

Other Translation

Translation of journalism articles completed regularly for an online publication based in Brussels

Articles in law, economics, sports and national/international current affairs

Translation of academic publishing in science, technology and humanities

Word count: Journalism - circa 600,000 words Publishing - around 450,000 words

I am delighted to provide an estimate for translation projects in any of the above fields.

Rates

I ask to see source document(s) before providing project estimates

These are calculated on a per word or hourly rate basis as appropriate, based on the anticipated work involved

I accept payments in euros or pounds sterling by bank transfer/international bank transfer

To discuss potential projects, feel free to get touch with me, using the contact form below, by e-mail at rob@calkin.me.uk, mobile on +44 (0)7803 201015 or on LinkedIn

Bio

Robert Calkin, a native English-speaking French to UK English freelance translator, based in England

Eight years’ translation experience

Trading as Robert Calkin Translation Services

Associate (AITI) - Institute of Translation and Interpreting (Membership Number: 00023509) and non-practising UK solicitor

BA (Hons.) French and Law degree

ProZ.com - Professional Plus package

Focus on translation, MTPE and proofreading for marketing websites in tourism, wines and fashion

Use SDL Trados Studio 2022 Freelance and Memsource Cloud

Pleased to use all other translation tools/glossaries, and work with all source document formats

Since 2014, I have translated around 2,224,926 words and proofread circa 450,000 words

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