George Newton

Freelance Translator at EF Hello
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Nottingham, UK

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Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • E-learning
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Freelance Translator
      • Jul 2023 - Present

      United Kingdom - Responsible for translating marketing and promotional material from English into German, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Spanish, French and Italian - Finding creative and idiomatic solutions to functional options and messages in the app and ensuring that translations maintain the tone of the original

    • Assistant Editor
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      - Editing, proofreading and translating content for the journal from Spanish into English, including the website and other texts - Working in an entirely Spanish-speaking environment with colleagues on the journal

    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant Editor (Fiction)
      • Sep 2023 - Present

      - Responsible for researching literature from underrepresented regions and languages - Constant engagement with authors and translators to solicit literary works for future issues - Writing insightful reviews of recent translations of literary texts

    • Language Tutor
      • Jan 2023 - Present

      - Delivering 3+ tailored and high-quality Spanish and French classes to students to help them optimise their language-learning

    • Head Editor
      • Jan 2022 - Present

      - Ensured quality control of over 60 submissions for second issue of the anthology - Collaborated with other translators to edit submissions from Spanish and Portuguese into English - Represented the OAT at the Oxford Translation Day conference in June 2023, at the Art Freshers’ Fair and contributed to the launch event for the second issue

    • Community Services
    • Translator
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      - Responsible for translating pieces of literature from across the Portuguese-speaking world into English and French - Developed translation skills by working with professional translators - Completed translations published in the magazine in December 2021

    • Online Audio and Video Media
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Music and Film Review Contributor
      • Nov 2020 - Present

      - Reviewer of newly-released Latin American films and albums, specialising in Brazil - Frequent reviewer of live Brazilian music performances around the UK at a range of venues in London and Nottingham, including Gilberto Gil, Bruno Berle, Luedji Luna and Sambossa - Responsible for writing thoughtful and considered reviews for the magazine's website

    • Languages Tutor
      • Nov 2020 - Present

      - Optimising students' progress in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese - Planning and delivering high-quality language classes and courses on a weekly basis to predominantly adult learners of all ages

    • Language-Learning Content Creator
      • Dec 2022 - Aug 2023

      - Responsible for creating listening and reading exercises for students learning German, Spanish and French

    • Translator
      • Oct 2020 - Feb 2023

      Oxford, England, United Kingdom - Translator in student-run project translating WW2 anti-Nazi resistance group letters and pamphlets from German into English - Presented creative translation of a pamphlet, a bilingual poem in German and English, at the White Rose commemoration event in Oxford in February 2023 - Interviewed for a podcast on the White Rose Movement and requested to contribute a reading of my creative translation to the podcast

    • Research Assistant
      • Feb 2022 - May 2022

      Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Analysed and synthesised 70 raw data sets in the form of interviews to inform research - Identified trends in data and presented conclusions to supervisor to be used in further research - Responsible for translating documents and sections of the centre’s website from Catalan into English

Education

  • University of Oxford
    Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese), FOREIGN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND LINGUISTICS
    2019 - 2023
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    "Deutsch Erleben - German in the City" Intensive German Language Course, German Studies
    2022 - 2022
  • University of Barcelona
    Semester Abroad, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
    2022 - 2022
  • Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
    Semester Abroad, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
    2021 - 2021

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