Learning by Translating

Ilaria

February 27, 2009 5:02 pm | Comments Off

I love translating, and I love having translated.

Translation is something I am really passionate about. I understood it when I had to choose which University course to attend, and I was undecided between Lingue e letterature straniere (Foreign Languages and Literatures) and Mediazione Linguistica. I ended up choosing the latter because “I like translating” (I remember having said exactly these words, recalling all the translations I did in high school). In addition, I liked reading articles or quotations in English and translating them into Italian in my school diaries. Foreign languages have fascinated me since I was a child, and I have always studied them with passion (I started studying them in middle school when I was 11, even if I had already known a little English before that time).

Obviously, I also have other interests: music, watching synchronized swimming competitions, IT (Information Technology), graphic design, scrapbooking and cinema.

Below you can find a short CV/resume. If you wish to have one with further information (in .pdf format), do not hesitate to contact me.

Basic information:

Full Name: Ilaria Sclafani
Date of Birth: October 5th, 1986
Nationality: Italian

Education:

2005 – 2009: Università degli Studi Gabriele D’Annunzio – Chieti-Pescara, Italy (www.unich.it).
Corso di Laurea (B.A. equivalent) in Mediazione linguistica e comunicazione interculturale (Translation and Liaison Interpreting).
Languages I studied: English and French (for 3 years), German (for one year).
Majors: Translation (ENG <-> ITA and FRA <-> ITA) and Liaison Interpreting.
I graduated on April 1st, 2009 with a translation thesis (from English into Italian) of two texts on TV interpreting, “Gli interpreti del piccolo schermo. On-screen intercultural mediation”.
Final Mark: 107/110.

2000 – 2005: Istituto Magistrale Maria Immacolata – Liceo linguistico sperimentale Brocca – San Giovanni Rotondo (http://www.im-immacolata.sangiovannirotondo.scuolaeservizi.it).
Diploma di Maturità linguistica (High School Diploma). Final Mark: 78/100.
Languages I studied: English and French (for 5 years), German (for 3 years).

Languages I Know:

Italian: mother-tongue speaker.
English: excellent.
French: good.
German: basic knowledge (I do not use it when working).