Timothy Barton, BA (Hons), LèsL
Bicultural translation
Projects completed
Since I began offering translation services, I have completed hundreds of projects -- some large, some small -- for dozens of clients on a wide range of subjects. Although it would take too long to read about every single project I have completed, on this page you can see some of the main areas in which I have already translated.
Main areas of specialisation
Education, Sport, History, Legal, Tourism, Marketing
Education
Education
Thanks to my time working in-house as the translator of the main institutional website of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, this quickly became my main area of specialisation. Having studied at universities in France and Spain, I already had good knowledge of the two countries' education systems, but my time working as a full-time translator in the field gave me even further knowledge of higher education in Spain and experience translating documents from Spanish and Catalan to English.
This experience has given me the opportunity to translate directly for four other universities, as well as for two others through translation agencies. I have worked not only with documents about higher education, but also academic papers, abstracts, presentations, and information for conferences.
Because of my expertise in the field, I was asked to do a presentation on the language of the European Higher Education Area at the 2008 MET meeting in Split (abstract).
So, if you need any education-related documents translating, whether they are documents related to education or academic papers, I can provide you with the service you need. The many clients I have in this field are testimony to the quality of service I can offer you.
LECTURING...................
Projects completed in the field of education
CATALAN-ENGLISH:
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB):
In-house English translator for two and a half years (2004-2007),
translating
the entire institutional website of
the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Education,
journalism
and technical
texts from Catalan and Spanish to English. Several
hundred thousand
words translated.
UAB-IDES: Information and abstracts for the 2008 International Congress of University Teaching and Innovation (14,000 words). Series of papers on adaptation of courses to the European Higher Education Area (8,500 words).
SIC S.L.: Syllabuses for various vocational training courses (19,500 words).
14,000-word student guide for a French management school (agency).
Translation of an academic paper by a University of Castilla-La Mancha lecturer on the distribution of swimming pools in Spain (5,500 words).
UAB Faculty of Translation: Doctorate website (1,200 words). Translation and revision of various articles and presentations prepared by lecturers for conferences.
Doctoral programme for a Catalan university (4,200 words).
English summary for a paper on the translations of Georges Simenon's novels.
UAB Institute of Communication: Papers for the “International Symposium on Press Subsidies in Europe: development, pluralism and transparency” (18,000 words).
Fundació Autònoma Solidària: Powerpoint presentation of this organisation.
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Technical
University of Catalonia (UPC):
55,000+ words (some from Catalan), mainly
on higher education. Reviser for the publication Higher Education in the World in 2006 & 2007 (25,000+ words).
Summary for an academic paper on violence against women.
SPORT
Sport is often not considered technical translation, and is often thought of as a general subject. But each sport has its own jargon that the translator must be familiar with in both the source and target languages. For example, other languages would refer to Lewis Hamilton as a pilot, but in English he's simply a driver. In English we have various ways of referring to what other languages simply refer to as zero: love in racket sports; a duck in cricket; and nil (British) or zero (American) in other sports. And the languages I translate from don't make the same distinction between a referee and an umpire.
It is therefore essential that sports translations be done by translators with a thorough grasp of the language used both in the sport and by the target audience of the source and target text. Having been an avid fan of most sports since I was a young child, I have acquired excellent knowledge of the language used in sport in English, French, Catalan and Spanish. This, combined with my use of corpus analysis and my previous experience with sports translations means that I can provide you with high-quality translations in the field of sports.
I have already translated for the following international sports events:
- 2004 Paris Golden League Athletics Meeting
- 2008 Women's World Handball Championships
I have also translated for smaller events such as the Special Olympics in Lloret de Mar, and have translated individual articles on Formula One, football and sailing events.
If you need translation for an entire event, I can also help you. Thanks to other specialist sports translators and interpreters I know, I can provide you with all the translation services you need for an entire event.
FRENCH-ENGLISH:
2004
Paris Golden
League Athletics
Meeting at the Stade de France:
Translation of website articles (several thousand words).
Formula
1 motorsport
piece for the Renault
in-house magazine Global
(3,700 words).
Sailing
news article.
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Mallol
Traductors Associats:
News article on major international
sailing regatta (1,200 words);
advertising campaign for a leading European
football club. Format: MS Powerpoint.
CATALAN-ENGLISH:
Mallol
Traductors Associats:
Regulations and information on the Special Olympics held in Lloret de Mar.
HISTORY
CATALAN/SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Coordinator of translation and revision of Els Nens perduts del franquisme, a book on the Spanish Civil War. Format: QuarkXPress. (90,000 words).
TOURISM
FRENCH-ENGLISH:
Website translation
for Franco-African travel
agency.
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Accent
Network
translation agency:
Translation of several
documents for a leading international
hotel chain (4000 words).
CATALAN-ENGLISH:
Angle
Editorial:
Various articles
for a magazine
about tourism in Catalonia (11,000 words).
SIC S.L.:
Script for a promotional video about Barcelona (2,200 words).
LEGAL
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Iber
Contact
translation agency: Advice given
by
consultancy firm on legal issues regarding an advertisement for an
alcoholic
beverage.
CATALAN-ENGLISH:
Mallol Traductors Associats: Parliamentary website
(5,500 words).
Automatic
Translation
(company
name): Municipal
ordinance on e-administration
(18,000 words).
Ampersand:
Legal ruling
by a city council on the use of premises.
Texts for civil wedding
ceremony.
I was also interpreter for the ceremony.
FRENCH-ENGLISH:
Ampersand
translation agency: Legal case from a French court on the use of a
trademark.
Mallol
Traductors Associats:
AGM minutes (1,750 words).
Carole Touati:
Paperwork for international football fair (3,500 words).
Hermes Traducciones: service agreement contracts (2,600 words).
PRODUCT INFORMATION AND MARKETING
FRENCH-ENGLISH:
Detergents: Cellande S.A.:
Revision of information on a range of industrial cleaning products.
Signage:
Website for a company providing signage and furnishings (3,500 words).
Food:
Iber
Contact
translation agency: Biotentika
food catalogue.
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Detergents: Traduccions Link: Shower gel labels
(1,700 words).
Physiotherapy: Cool Roller S.L.: Device for massages.
BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
This is a field I have moved into fairly recently, but by using corpus analysis and translation memory I have been able to acquire the necessary expertise. More recently, I have established a good working relationship with the OECD, for which I regularly translate documents from French-English. Over the years, I have done many small translations in this field, ranging from short financial reports to business letters and from press reports to Powerpoint presentations. Because of the large number of documents I have translated, the following list includes only the large projects.
Website of the Catalan private-equity firm Catalana d'Iniciatives.
OTHER
SPANISH-ENGLISH:
Music: Encyclopaedic
texts about Furtwängler, Bach, Haydn, Händel and
Schubert.
Cinema: Director's statement on a film.
Economics:
Automatic
Translation
(company
name):
Part of a website for a major
Spanish bank (16,500 words).
Mallol
Traductors Associats: Correspondence
for a major Spanish bank.
Medical:
Report on sleep apnoea
(4,000 words).
Technical:
Sonder Regulación: Manuals for telephone-operated controlers. Translation into English (2,200 words) and project manager for translation into French and Italian (2,200 words each).
Industrias Gama: DVD on the company's library installations (2,000 words).
CATALAN-ENGLISH:
Religion:
Articles on a dispute in the Roman
Catholic Church (6,500 words).
Economics: Angle Editorial:
Article on consumption
in Catalonia (2,000 words).
Cover
letter for job application.
