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English to French: Art Courses offered with accommodation General field: Marketing Detailed field: Tourism & Travel
Source text - English AUTUMN - OCTOBER 2014
At present we have no plans to run any courses this year, but would be very pleased to hear from anyone who would like to run their own course. We are also happy to rent the house to artists in autumn, spring and winter, on a room by room basis for individuals or smaller groups.
Translation - French Pour le moment, nous n’avons pas de projet de cours d’art et de dessin cette année, mais nous serions heureux de recevoir des propositions de personnes qui voudraient mener leur propre cours. Les artistes sont aussi les bienvenus pour louer la maison en automne, printemps et été, chambre par chambre pour des particuliers, ou pour des groupes plus petits.
English to French: Letter to the Mayor General field: Other Detailed field: General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Source text - English Dear M. C.,
I look forward to seeing you on Friday at 11 o'clock
I thought I should write to you as my spoken French is unfortunately terrible and seems to be getting worse.
I have divided this letter in to different paragraphs covering different aspects, please accept my apologies for this, but in the letter I hope to cover all the issues and the main aim is to get planning permission!
The Reunion.
I think you must have been confused why I didn't have anything to say at the meeting with LE. Let me say, I was confused by the meeting too!
When I came to your office in January and reported that the planning permission had been refused, you told me that a meeting was already organised with LE to discuss the situation with the water. Because the meeting was organised before the planning refusal, I thought that the meeting had been requested by either P. or M. A. or by LE.
At the meeting I was expecting whoever had asked for the meeting to speak. Or if it was LE to who had called it, to suggest a solution to a problem. Because I have never had a problem with the supply of water, it was not possible for me to complain about a lack of water at R and to insist that work be done to improve the water supply.
Also, I did not think that LE or the commune would spend money- to improve the the supply of water at P - just so that I can get planning permission. There is always plenty of water at R, even during the summer. That is why I was so surprised that the planning was refused.
Translation - French Cher M. C.,
Je suis content de vous revoir ce vendredi à onze heures .
J’ai décidé de vous écrire parce que mon français est malheureusement mauvais et semble s’appauvrir encore.
J’ai divisé cette lettre en paragraphes pour couvrir différents aspects, veuillez m’en excuser, mais j’espère couvrir tous les problèmes et le but principal est d’obtenir le permis de construire !
La réunion
Je crois que vous avez dû vous demander pourquoi je n’ai pas parlé à la réunion avec la LE. C’est que j’étais aussi rendu confus par la réunion !
Quand je suis venu vous voir à votre bureau en janvier pour vous apprendre que le permis de construire m’avait été refusé, vous m’aviez dit que la réunion était déjà organisée avec la LE pour discuter de la situation de l’eau. Comme la réunion avait été organisée avant le refus du permis de construire, j’ai pensé que la réunion avait été demandée soit par P., soit par M. A., ou encore la LE.
Pendant la réunion, je m’attendais à ce que la personne qui avait demandé qu’on se réunisse parle en premier. Ou bien, si ç’avait été la LE la première à parler à la personne qui a demandé qu’on se réunisse, qu’elle suggère une solution au problème. Comme je n’ai jamais eu de problème d’approvisionnement en eau, je ne pouvais pas me plaindre de manque d’eau à R ni insister pour que des travaux soient entrepris pour améliorer l’approvisionnement en eau.
De plus, je ne pensais pas que la LE ou la commune allaient dépenser - pour améliorer l’approvisionnement en eau de P - tout simplement pour que je puisse obtenir mon permis de construire. Il y a toujours beaucoup d’eau à R, même pendant l’été. C’est pour ça que j’ai été si étonné quand le permis m’a été refusé.
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BIENVENUE CHEZ MURIEL !
English/French Translator
I am happy to offer my translation skills - even at weekends! - mainly in the fields of Tourism, General correspondence, Medicine (general), Engineering (general), Video games instructions, Administration, and Manual instructions. A native French translator, I have been living in the UK for over thirty years, and I am proud to have improved my translation skills in that time. My first contact with translations came with working for the Oxford University Press on the Oxford Hachette French dictionary. I then started to undertake freelance work from then on, with an array of clients - academics, researchers, religious groups, and so on. My work with the OUP also involved specialist tagging (html), and proofreading, both in French and English. I was also asked to work on some other projects on different languages to input some data using html. Past work includes translating into English the literature of a luxury hotel based in the Champagne area, translating from French a series of walks in a beautiful French area for the holiday makers of a successful gîte; to put into French the letters that my English speaking clients were sending to the French administration (about wills, houses, bills, ...), to write the description of houses for sale into French / English and to translate into French games instructions for some video games. I have also put into French some medical texts aimed at patients.
Multilingual Administrative Assistant
I am also offering my secretarial services either as ad hoc or regular services to businesses. This can of course be coupled with languages for typing letters, or making phone enquiries, and other administrative work. I was lucky enough to work with a group of researchers as the administrative secretary and with the accounts office of one of the Departments of Oxford University. I came away with good skills.
I was also involved in helping with setting up scientific conferences, for example the Eurodymat conference of 1994 (as secretary to the President of the conference and French translator) when I worked on translating scientific papers (Engineering Science) and proofreading submissions by members of the conference.
Languages Teacher
I am offering tutoring services that can be carried out face to face or on Zoom or Skype too: I am a qualified languages teacher (PGCE). I currently teach French to a variety of learners - adults, secondary school learners, primary school learners - for lots of reasons ranging from studies to leisure etc.
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