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Law (general)Law: Contract(s)
JournalismPoetry & Literature
Business/Commerce (general)

Volunteer / Pro-bono work Open to considering volunteer work for registered non-profit organizations
KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 20, Questions answered: 12, Questions asked: 18
Project History 115 projects entered

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Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 7
Thai to English: Junior Fiction Novel
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Thai
"หา.....ยายว่าไงนะ เอามดแดงกัดสะดือ เอามากัดทำไมละยายเจ็บจะตาย"
นึกถึงมดแดงที่ชอบทำรังตามต้นมะม่วง ต้นลำใยและต้นอื่นๆที่บ้าน เวลาปีนต้นลำใยเล่น มันกัดทีก็เจ็บร้องจ๊าก แม่ต้องฝนขมิ้นทาให้อยู่บ่อยๆ แต่นี่ยายเล่นบอกให้เอามดมากัดสะดือ ไม่เจ็บแย่หรือ สะดือของปุ้มยิ่งจุ่นอยู่แล้ว ทิ่มถูกอะไรเล็กน้อยก็ยังเจ็บ
" เออ ต้องเอามดแดงกัดสะดือ " ยายทวนคำหลานชาย " เวลากัดแล้วตัวเอ็งจะเบาเหมือนมดเลย แล้วเอ็งก็จะว่ายน้ำได้"
Translation - English
What?! What did you say, Grandma? Get red ants to bite your belly button?! Why’d you want to do that, Grandma—you’d die of pain!” he exclaimed in response.
Boom thought of the red ants that built their nests in the mango trees, longan trees, and other trees at home. Whenever he climbed the longan tree for fun, he’d let out a yell every time one bit him. His mom was always having to grind turmeric to put on his bites. And now here was Grandma, joking, telling him to get red ants to bite his belly button. Wouldn’t that really hurt? His belly button already stuck out. Even the smallest poke would make it hurt.
“Mm-hmm. You have to get red ants to bite your belly button,” Grandma repeated. “Once one’s bitten you, you’ll be as light as an ant, and then you’ll be able to swim.”
Vietnamese to English: Product Brochure
General field: Marketing
Detailed field: Advertising / Public Relations
Source text - Vietnamese
CẦU ĐẤT ARABICA
Với độ cao ngất ngưỡng trên cao nguyên Lâm Viên, lý tưởng để giống cà phê Arabica thơm ngon phát triển, dường như thiên nhiên đã đóng mộc xác nhận cho Cà phê Cầu Đất bằng hương thơm ngây ngất, vị ngòn ngọt để lại hậu vị sau uống làm say lòng người thưởng thức khó tính nhất. Với phương châm sản xuất nghiêm túc, kiểm soát chất lượng từ Nông dân, thì cà phê Việt nam nào có thua kém của bất kỳ ai.
Translation - English
CAU DAT ARABICA
On the towering heights of the Lam Vien plateau, ideal for the development of a fragrant Arabica coffee species, it is as if nature has put its seal of approval on Cau Dat Coffee with an ecstatic aroma and an aftertaste sweet enough to enamor the most hardened coffee drinker. With strict production guidelines and quality control from the Farmer, any Vietnamese coffee is second to none.
Vietnamese to English: Short Story
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Vietnamese
Ở làng anh là người đầu tiên mua được xe máy. Tiếng xe máy làm sửng sốt làng Gò không khác cái dạo gia đình tôi từ mạn ngược về cùng bốn mốt con bò. Nhưng anh gặp tai nạn thảm khốc cũng từ xe máy. Đâm vào cột mốc, thần chết chỉ lấy đôi chân cũng là phúc bảy đời. Nguyên nhân tai nạn do anh thua bạc, do vỡ nợ, do say rượu. Nguyên nhân thật khi biết cái thai trong bụng vợ không phải của mình. Dằn vặt tha thứ, không tha thứ đến nỗi đâm vào cột mốc. Khi anh phải cưa hai chân, không cần anh dằn vặt chị dâu tôi cũng bỏ đi. Thế mới biết lòng người đen bạc. Ở đời, khi chưa gặp sóng gió, khi chưa thân bại danh liệt thì thói đen bạc còn chưa lộ mặt. 		Translation - English
My brother was the first in the village to buy a motorbike. The sound of the motorbike astounded Go village no less than the time my family returned from the mountains with forty-one head of cattle. But also because of the motorbike he met with a horrible accident. Ran into a milepost; that the Grim Reaper took only his two legs was a great blessing. The cause of the accident was he had lost at gambling, was because he was bankrupt, was because he was drunk. The cause in reality was when he found out the fetus in his wife's belly wasn't his own. He tormented himself to forgive, unable to forgive he ran into the milepost. With his two legs sawed off, there was no need for torment my sister-in law took up and left. Only then did he learn how faithless people can be. In life, when you have not yet faced the storm, when you have not yet met your downfall, faithlessness has yet to show its face.
Thai to English: Foreign Affairs Study
General field: Social Sciences
Detailed field: International Org/Dev/Coop
Source text - Thai
ในส่วนที่เกี่ยวกับอิรัก เวียดนามมีความสัมพันธ์อันดีกับอิรักและถือว่าอิรักเป็นมิตรเก่าแก่ของตน เวียดนามคัดค้านการคว่ำบาตรทางเศรษฐกิจของสหประชาชาติ สืบเนื่องจากการบุกคูเวตของอิรักในปี 1990 อีกทั้ง วิพากษ์วิจารณ์การละเมิดน่านฟ้าทางเหนือและใต้ของอิรักโดยเครื่องบินของสหรัฐฯ และอังกฤษ ขณะเดียวกัน เวียดนามก็เป็นคู่ค้าของอิรักภายใต้โครงการของสหประชาชาติว่าด้วยการขายน้ำมันเพื่อแลกกับอาหาร ในความรู้สึกของอิรัก เวียดนามเป็นมิตรประเทศ “พี่น้อง” ที่เห็นใจอิรักและมีความรู้สึกร่วมต่อชะตากรรมของอิรักที่ถูกสหรัฐฯ รุกรานเช่นกัน ดังที่เกิดขึ้นในต้นปี 1991 ในความสัมพันธ์และความเข้าใจอันดีต่อกันมีผลให้อิรักเสนอให้ความช่วยเหลือด้านมนุษยธรรมต่อเวียดนามในกรณีที่จังหวัดภาคกลางของเวียดนามต้องเผชิญน้ำท่วมอย่างหนักในระหว่างเดือนพฤศจิกายน-ธันวาคม 1999 โดยอิรักเสนอน้ำมันดิบมูลค่า 10 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐฯ ให้แก่เวียดนาม		Translation - English
Vietnam had good relations with Iraq and regarded Iraq as an old friend. Vietnam objected to United Nations economic sanctions against Iraq following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and further criticized the violation of Iraqi airspace in the north and south of Iraq by US and British planes. At the same time, Vietnam was a trading partner with Iraq under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. When the United States attacked Iraq at the beginning of 1991, Vietnam sympathized and empathized with its “brother” in its like fate. In December 1999, when Vietnam’s central provinces were inundated by floods, this ongoing relationship and understanding led Iraq to offer Vietnam humanitarian assistance in the form of crude oil to the value of 10 million US dollars.
Thai to English: Free Verse Poetry
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Thai
นถนนสายที่ทอดไปสู่ทะเล
แดดสนธยาสาดเงาไม้ข้างทางทาบผิวถนน
เงาสองเงาบนจักรยานสองคันเคียงคู่กันไป
พลิ้วสะบัดของชุดอ๋าวหญ่ายไหวในลมเย็น
ดอกนนทรีสีเหลืองพลิ้วหล่นบนถนนสีดำ
ป่าหมาก ดงสาคู โยกกายทักทายแม่น้ำสายเล็ก
ผลไม้ในเพิงริมถนน
แต้มย้อมด้วยแสงสนธยา
ขนุน น้อยหน่า กล้วย มะม่วง มะพร้าว
เงาทุกเงาเต็มไปด้วยชีวิตชีวา
Translation - English
on a road stretching towards the seaside
the twilight glow splashes shadows of wayside trees on its surface
two shadows on two bicycles going side by side
flapping of ao dais in the cool air
yellow poinciana flowers fluttering down onto the black road
areca wood, saigo thicket, sway greeting a little stream
fruit in a roadside lean-to
dappled in twilight light
jackfruit, custard apple, banana, mango, coconut
each and every shadow full of life
Thai to English: Short Story
General field: Art/Literary
Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Thai
ว่ากันว่าตะเคียนหินนั้นมีมาพร้อมกำเนิดสรรพสิ่งมีชีวิตแต่ยางพาราเพิ่งถือกำเนิดขึ้นบนผืนแผ่นดินนี้ไม่เกินชั่วสองอายุคน อย่างไรก็ตาม ไม้ทั้งสองพรรณต่างก็ถึงกาลโค่นล้มลงในเวลาไล่เลี่ยกัน ทั้งนี้ผมกล่าวเอาจากประสบการณ์ซึ่งผ่านพบมาทุกครั้งที่ไต่ถนนลูกรังเข้าไปหาสวนยางแถบเทือกเขา เราต้องคอยหลีกหลบรถบรรทุกซุงโครงสี่เหลี่ยมซึ่งห้อตะบึงมาอย่างบ้าคลั่ง ข้างบนนั่นนางพรายตะเคียนนั่งร้องไห้กระซิก ร่างกระดอนตามจังหวะกระแทกกระทั้น มีออกบ่อยไปที่เราพบนางพรายตัวน้อยๆ เหล่านี้พลัดตกอยู่ในคูข้างทาง ไม่มีใครรู้หรอกว่าจะมีวิธีจัดการกับพวกเธออย่างไร นอกจากปล่อยให้หิวโหยและไร้ที่พักพิงอยู่เยี่ยงนั้น		Translation - English
It is said the takian hin came with the birth of living things but Para rubber was born on the earth no more than two human lifetimes ago. Nevertheless both species of timber arrived at their time of felling back to back. This I recount from my own experience. Every time we crawled up the red dirt road into the rubber plantation along the range we had to watch out for the square-framed logging trucks that came pelting down flat out in a frenzy. Up on top, takian nymphs sat crying and sniffling, their bodies bouncing along in time to the bumping and jolting. It happened often that we find these tiny sprites slipped and fallen into a roadside ditch. No one knew really how they might be dealt with, other than leaving them so, famished and without place of respite.
Vietnamese to English: Trading Contract
General field: Bus/Financial
Detailed field: Law: Contract(s)
Source text - Vietnamese
Đơn đặ hàng hợp lệ có chữ ký xác nhận của người đại diện có thẩm quyền của Bên B. Trong trường hợp đặc biệt, để đáp ứng nhu cầu của khách hàng mà người đại diện có thẩm quyền của Bên B bận việc đột xuất không thể ký đơn đạt hàng được ngay lúc cần giao hàng thì bên A có thể chủ động giao hàng theo đề xuất của CM trước, sao đó thông báo với Bên B để tiến hành làm các thủ tục cần thiết.		Translation - English
A legal purchase order must have the verifying signature of the authorized Representative of Party B. In special circumstances, in order to respond to client needs where the authorized Representative of Party B is engaged unforeseen and cannot sign the purchase order at the moment delivery is needed then Party A may initiate delivery beforehand following the proposal of the CM, after that notifying Party B in order to carry out the necessary formalities.

Glossaries Isan Dialect, Sport
Translation education Bachelor's degree - Australian National University
Experience Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2010.
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Credentials Thai to English (7 Semesters (3.5 years) Full Time Continuing Research on the topic “Form and Meaning in Thai” TOWARDS a Doctor of Philosophy, in the Southeast Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1995 to 1998 – DISCONTINUED.)
Thai to English (Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) with Second Class Honours Division A, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Awarded 24 April 1992.)
Thai to English (Certificate (วุฒิบัตร) for senior high school studies of approximately 1 school year at Kalayanee Si Thammarat School, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, through an AFS Scholarship, Awarded by the Ministry of Education, Thailand, 7 March 1983.)
Vietnamese to English (Certificate of Achievement (Chứng Chỉ Tiếng Việt) for Vietnamese Language at Advanced Level, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City/University of Social Sciences and Humanities, dated 20 October 2007.)
Vietnamese to English (Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) with Second Class Honours Division A, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Awarded 24 April 1992.)


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Law - Literature - Environment    

Highlights

• Registered Australian business 

• Swiss-secure mail and VPN

• Speaker of Thai for 35+ years and Vietnamese for 30+years

• Passed 1 million translation words (TH 70% VI 30%) in 2017

• Passed 5+ years full-time translation in 2019 

• In-house publications editor on Southeast Asian topics in USA

• 3.5 years accredited PhD research in Thai Linguistics (discontinued)

• Quality layout and PDF process

• Experienced in SDL Studio 2019, Wordfast, and Memsource

My Story 

I first learnt Thai as a teenager on a year-long exchange program in Thailand (1982), my then fifth language. Several years later I took up Thai and Linguistics at the Australian National University (1988) where advanced Thai was supplemented with units on Southern Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese. I studied intermediate Vietnamese in Hanoi in 1990 and sat my Advanced Vietnamese certificate in Ho Chi Minh City in in 2007.

My early career was university-based, first as an officer of the National Thai Studies Centre (Australia) (1992-1995) working in multimedia language learning development, and contributing independent research on Tai/Thai dialects and phonetics (1993). I then undertook doctoral research on Thai/Cognitive Linguistics (1995-98), worked on my first paid project as a translator (100,000 words, Medical Anthropology/Isan dialect (2000)), lectured in linguistics in Bangkok (2000-1), and worked as an academic editor of Southeast Asian Studies publications in the USA (2002-4).

I became involved in Thai literary translation from 2003-2015, while spending over a decade in neighboring Vietnam alternating ESL teaching, and freelance translation and editing freelance for writers, a regional publisher and a writers association. From November 2014 to early 2020 I engaged in 5+ years full-time registered commercial translation based in Vietnam and Australia before taking a  break. As of November 2023, I am available again. 

Services

Tasks. Thai or Vietnamese to English translation and English to Thai or Vietnamese review. I am adaptable to work in a range of CAT tool formats or from page to page.

Content. My  interests focus on prose texts: contracts, procurement documents, legislation, ministerial orders, court documents, evidence, journalism, statutes , procedures, HR and customer feedback, testimonials, and short and long literature.

Method. Detail-oriented and analytical. I seek to translate in-context and conduct background research as necessary. In both my work processes and translation product, I seek to reduce redundancy.

Growth Areas

• Transcription translation and subtitling.

• Environmental translation, land regeneration, holistic management, marine and coastal change.

This user has reported completing projects in the following job categories, language pairs, and fields.

Project History Summary
Total projects115
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Job type
Translation74
Editing/proofreading38
Subtitling2
Website localization1
Language pairs
Thai to English49
Vietnamese to English45
English to Vietnamese16
English to Thai3
English2
Specialty fields
Law (general)24
Marketing / Market Research13
Law: Contract(s)10
Journalism9
Insurance7
Poetry & Literature7
Forestry / Wood / Timber4
Ships, Sailing, Maritime3
Environment & Ecology3
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama1
Business/Commerce (general)1
Fisheries1
Other fields
Medical: Health Care17
Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs9
Medical: Pharmaceuticals9
Finance (general)7
Medical (general)7
Education / Pedagogy5
Government / Politics3
Accounting3
Automotive / Cars & Trucks2
Computers: Software2
Law: Taxation & Customs2
Electronics / Elect Eng2
Military / Defense2
Manufacturing2
Energy / Power Generation2
Anthropology2
Nutrition2
Advertising / Public Relations2
Aerospace / Aviation / Space2
Science (general)1
Mechanics / Mech Engineering1
Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright1
Transport / Transportation / Shipping1
Furniture / Household Appliances1
Engineering: Industrial1
Computers: Systems, Networks1
Internet, e-Commerce1
Medical: Instruments1
Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)1
Media / Multimedia1
Telecom(munications)1
Human Resources1
History1
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