Working languages:
English to Bulgarian
Russian to English
Italian to English

Tzvetan Tzvetkov
Know not all answers, just the questions

Bulgaria
Local time: 19:53 EEST (GMT+3)

Native in: Bulgarian Native in Bulgarian, English Native in English
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Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter
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Services Translation, Editing/proofreading, Website localization
Expertise
Specializes in:
Law: Patents, Trademarks, CopyrightMedical (general)

Rates
English to Bulgarian - Standard rate: 0.10 USD per word / 35 USD per hour

KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 19, Questions answered: 9
Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 2
Experience Years of experience: 42. Registered at ProZ.com: Jan 2009.
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Software Frontpage, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint
CV/Resume English (DOC)
Bio
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the tiny age of 5 I was shipped to Rome, Italy following an appointment of my father to the Bulgarian embassy there. 6 years later with 2 of them in the Russian elementary school in the Soviet embassy, I was back in Sofia continuing in the Russian school "Al. Pushkin". Barely 4 years there, here we go again: Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
No Russian, no Italian and definitely no Bulgarian schools there, so I join "St.Joseph" jesuit run English school. I was fortunate to have some of the best teachers on earth.
Graduated HS and got a GEC from London University. Studied one year Civil Engineering at the Haile Selassie University and then returned to Sofia, where I enrolled at the "Karl Marx" economics institute - foreign economic relations. Graduated in 1977 with a Masters in International Economics. The rest you can read in my CV.

I have no formal translation training, but as a general representative for the Italian company FIAT (5 years)and Italtel (2 years), Italian-Bulgarian-Italian translations were incessant, up to and including top government officials, Chambers of commerce, ICE etc. Most educational were the long and arcane negotiations involving nascent digital switchboard technologies and related proprietary software of Italtel. Elucidating the terminology prepared me for the coming world of personal computing. Translating and polishing the contracts was my job, too.
10 more years I worked with the Swedish trading house "Elof Hansson". Translation, contracts, you know the drill...... Then moved to the USA. Here I worked 5 years for Blue Cross/ Blue Shield - one of the largest health insurance companies, translating medical bills and medical records from around the world.

In translation, I believe in one thing only: to accurately convey the original meaning of the source. This puts me at a disadvantage when it comes to speed - 1000/1500 words a day. I have to completely understand the subject of my translation. As an amateur inventor, my forte are patents, but obviously I know a great deal about medicine, science and economics. I am a subscriber of Scientific American, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and The Economist and I read everything.
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Apr 28, 2015