Member since Feb '24

Working languages:
Urdu (monolingual)

Mamoona Azam
Chartered Linguist Urdu Translator

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Local time: 06:07 BST (GMT+1)

Native in: Urdu (Variant: Pakistan) Native in Urdu
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Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter
Affiliations This person is not affiliated with any business or Blue Board record at ProZ.com.
Services Editing/proofreading, Native speaker conversation, Transcreation, Transcription, Translation, Voiceover (dubbing), Website localization, Subtitling, Interpreting
Expertise
Specializes in:
Poetry & LiteratureNames (personal, company)
Medical: CardiologyMedical: Dentistry
Medical: PharmaceuticalsMedical: Instruments
Medical: Health CareMedical (general)
NutritionPsychology

Rates

Translation education Graduate diploma - DPSI
Experience Registered at ProZ.com: Feb 2024. Became a member: Feb 2024.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s) N/A
Credentials Urdu (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
Memberships N/A
Software memoQ, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Pro, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Trados Online Editor, Trados Studio, XTM
CV/Resume CV available upon request
Professional objectives
  • Meet new translation company clients
  • Meet new end/direct clients
  • Network with other language professionals
Bio

§  Translate from Urdui
to English and vice versa fin a number of fields
including the Health, Legal, Police, Courts, Councils and Social Services
related jobs

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Provide face to face, video conferencing, teleconferencing and translation services 

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Over 7,500 hours of face-to-face
interpreting

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Over 3,000 hours of teleconference
interpreting

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Over 3,000 documents translated from Urdu to
English

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Over 2,000 hours of video conference interpreting

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Over 1,500 hours of videos / audios
transcribed from Urdu to English

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Extremely flexible and capable of working all hours
at short notice

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Jobs required Interpreting variety of scenarios including
1-2-1, group seminars and telephone interpreting

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Translated documents varying in length from single
page pamphlets to 80-page social services reports. Translated for several
industries and sectors including the NHS, Social Services, legal documents,
finance document, court papers, technical support documents, amongst others.
Final translated document produced to an excellent standard whilst maintaining
and delivering the format and font of source documents

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Transcribed both audio and visual files from Urdu to
English and vice versa for solicitors, ombudsman, and regulators

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Attained excellent feedback on all engagements
undertaken for interpreting and translating work

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Provide seamless and accurate translation between the
client and other parties, ensuring that all information and tone of
conversations are captured and transmitted between both parties.

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Ensure professional and courteous behavior
throughout, managing multiple engagements in and around Glasgow taking into
consideration different cultures and backgrounds. Ensured that I make all
parties comfortable with my presence and confident in the accuracy of messages
being transmitted.

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Due to my emotional resilience, I have successfully Interpreted
at several very sensitive appointments with social care department, maternity
departments and legal cases ensuring that professionalism was maintained
throughout, both parties received all information and clients were assured in my
presence.

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Comfortable working in all environments and with
people of all backgrounds and cultures, attending appointments at patients’
homes, hospitals, courts, legal offices, hospices and dental practices.

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Manage workload and timing so as to be punctual with
appointments and ensure that sufficient time to make various appointments
throughout the city.

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Successfully make sense of message composed in one
language whilst simultaneously constructing and articulating the same message
in another.

Ensure that I manage
commitments thus available for appointments at short notice.
Keywords: Urdu, Translation, Transcription, Experienced, Localisation


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Mar 6