I am a native Portuguese freelance translator working with English, German and Spanish. I have recently completed an MA in Translation at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. My main focus during the course was literary translation in the language pairs DE-PT, DE-EN and EN-PT. I also completed courses in other fields such as liaison interpreting, humor translation and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, among others.

In addition to the experience and skills acquired during my Bachelor's and Master's degrees, I also have about seven years experience as a freelance translator, and specialize in media translation (subtitling, QC, metadata translation and proofreading) and literary translation.

Studies and Certificates

• MA in Translation Studies

• BA in General Studies (Translation Major) - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal

• FCE in English; Goethe Zertifikat C1

• Erasmus Semester in Vienna, Austria at the University of Vienna (Sept 2016 - Feb 2017)

• Completion of German Intensive Summer Course at the Humboldt University of Berlin (C1 level) (July-August 2016)

Volunteer Translation Work

• Co-translation of Mastay by Marc Torra

• Translation of the game Greedy Guns into German

• Volunteer Subtitler for TED

• Volunteer Subtitler for Khan Academy

• Volunteer Translator for Translations for Progress

Translation Training and Experience

• 3 month internship at Centro Europeu de Línguas/Tradinter

Lisbon, Portugal

Tasks: English, German and Spanish to Portuguese translation, Portuguese to English and German translation, English to German translation. Translation of instruction manual of a food sector app (about 40,000 words)

• 1 month internship at Psb Audiovisual Productions 

Lisbon, Portugal

Main task: subtitle QC

Current main clients:

• Straker Translations (technical and general translation, Subtitling)

• Sublime Subtitling (Subtitling and QC)

• Translated (technical and general translation in areas such as Tourism, Culinary and IT)

• ZOO Digital (Subtitling and QC)

• Wordzz (Technical Translation)

• Ehlion (Technical Translation)

• Wordcraft (Technical Translation)

What others have said about me

"Maria is extremely motivated and interested in improving her knowledge, skills and competences. She accepted every task proposed and put always an effort to do her best (...) Her cooperation was a very important contribution to our company. (...) It was a pleasure for us to have Ms. Maria Cintra with us and we strongly recommend her for future employments as she is a very competent and responsible person."

- Tradinter http://www.tradinter.pt/ 

"A great first project with Maria who showed high responsiveness and professionalism. Looking forward for more cooperation." - Ralph Srouji, Rebuild Babel

"Maria Cintra assisted me with the translation of two chapters of my first book "Mastay, the Alchemy of the Reunion” from English and Spanish to Portuguese. (...) 

She did an excellent job, performed her duties with a high degree of professionalism and completed both tasks within the timeframe allocated. (...) I would not doubt to contract her again for another translation." - Marc Torra, Chakana Creations