WHAT I OFFER MY CLIENTS
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A well-written, polished translation that fully respects the French copy but reads like an original.
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A focus on clients’ needs. I ask the right questions before and during any project so that I can tailor the translation to the client’s specific communication goals.
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A choice between American and British English - I am equally at ease translating into either.
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A perfectionist's penchant for detail, ensuring spelling, punctuation, format and stylistic conventions need no adjustment.
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Translations completed and delivered on time, every time.
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Strict client confidentiality.
About
I have been freelance translating from French to English since 2006.
I am a native English speaker, born and raised in New Zealand, and have been living and working in France for 20 years. I earned my qualifications in both New Zealand and French universities: a first class honours degree in International Relations and French (specialising in translation) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and a Master of International Relations from University Paris 1 – Sorbonne.
I am a passionate linguist and I love the challenge of using words to build a bridge between my two cultures.
With an educational background in the social sciences, followed by a year as the in-house translator for Pierre and Marie Curie University’s communications department, it was only natural for me to specialize in higher education and social science translation.
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Why choose a translator specialized in your field or sector?
The goals of effective communication may be the same in French and in English, but they are arrived at in different ways. Not only do the style and register which suit one language require adaptation to ensure they do the same job in the other, different fields use different vocabulary and manners of expression.
If you have spent time, thought and effort on producing an effective piece of French writing for publication in print or on the web, you need an English translation which, while perfectly capturing the meaning and nuances of the original, is both stylishly written and tailored to your particular English-speaking readership.
Only a specialized, native English-speaking translator with in-depth knowledge of both the source and target cultures in the specific field concerned can achieve this. That is why I translate only into English, and only in my specialist fields of higher education and the social sciences.
TESTIMONIALS
"One word comes to mind when describing Jessica Edwards' work: professionalism. Her strict respect for deadlines, her style perfectly adaptable to the subject at hand, her choice of the 'mot juste' make her a truly exceptional translator. Jessica did a wonderful job translating our website of over 100 pages. She definitely masters the art of translation."
Roger Koukerjinian
Webmaster EBS Paris
“Jessica Edwards has shown strong analytical skills, a thorough knowledge of the different academic styles in both languages and of the courses of a large French university, and a perfect knowledge of French and English typographies which make her work truly polished.”
Pascal Rouleau
Publishing Editor, Elsevier Masson
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Full member of the French national translators' association, la Société française des traducteurs.