My company in New Zealand after moving from Belgium.

Translation and reviewing of English to Dutch, French to Dutch and Japanese to Dutch. Also working freelance for a translation agency providing punctual translations and revisions of translations to clients where needed.

My specializations are medical (translation of SmpC, PIL, ICF), psychology, eLearnings, manuals, games, fashion, international development, refugees & migration, environment & ecology, apps, computer software and tourism and travel.

My translation business while I was still living in Belgium, providing the same services as my current one.

In the emergency centre for asylum seekers of the Red Cross in Westakkers, Sint-Niklaas I work as an assistant. This implies doing the follow-up of the procedures, giving psycho-social support, helping the refugees to integrate in Belgium and helping with the general running of the centre.

Freelance Translator, working together with Gctranslations. I translated English to Dutch, French to Dutch and Japanese to Dutch. Mostly medical and agricultural subjects.

As a technical writer I improved and added to the documentation for NorthgateArinso. I wrote several types of documentation for different kinds of end-users (for example for the consultants, the user, the client, etc.) of products from NGA. I also translated the labels for euHReka (an HR program from NGA) from English to Japanese and to Dutch.

Translator internship, mostly English and French to Dutch. Mostly medical.

Master-after-master degree with a focus on the interaction between conflict and the Global South. This is with an interdisciplinary approach where we explore, analyse and discuss the different views from various academical disciplines such as the political sciences, anthropology, developmental studies and sociology. This master is unfinished.

Subject Masterthesis: The role and politics of Japan during the Cancun Climate Change Conference (COP 16)

As an exchange student in Osaka, Japan I took law classes in Japanese and followed a program to improve my Japanese further. I also voluntarily taught basic Dutch to Japanese students (in Japanese) and also had a reading group with elderly Japanese. Here we read a text together (for example from Murakami) and discussed about it afterwards in English.

Next to that I also worked in a  Belgian Beer Bar in Osaka. This was a fun way to learn Japanese more fluently. I could explain Belgian customs to Japanese customers and in that way improve my Japanese in a practical way.

Series of webinars about the differences between Dutch from the
Netherlands and Dutch from Belgium and how this is important as a
translator. Differences in grammar, culture, vocabulary, word order,... and how to handle this.

These are preparation classes to do the JLPT test N2 in July 2017. The
JLPT (Nihongo nōryoku shiken 日本語能力試験) is a test co-organized by
the Japan Foundation and the Japan Educational Exchanges and
Services to certify Japanese language proficiency for non-native
speakers.

This is a training organized by the Belgian Development Agency on international cooperation and North-South relations.