Cynthia (Sindi) Keesan
504 Hiscock #1
Ann Arbor MI 48103

Landline phone: 734-274-9463

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This document contains links to specific sections.

• Translation Experience
• Work Experience
• Education & Travel
• Hardware and Reference Materials

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• How I Became a Translator (article in an online translation journal)

Languages (into English in order of fluency)

• 'Serbo-Croatian' (Bosnian Croatian Serbian)
• Macedonian
• Bulgarian
• Slovene Slovenian
• Russian
• Czech
• Slovak
• Polish
• Ukrainian
• Belarusan
• Romanian
• Albanian

For information about Albania / Shqiperia and Albanian /shqipe click here, to join a webring or meet other people interested in Albania or Kosova / Kosovo click here.

Subject Areas

• Life Sciences: biology, biochemistry, botany, medicine, pharmaceuticals, toxicology, nutrition, horticulture, ecology, food processing, etc.
• Sci/tech: chemistry, geology, math, physics; general technical, geodesy, aerospace, residential construction, insulation
• Legal: patents, certificates, transcripts
• Other: linguistics, music, architecture
• (Economics, politics, religion, military, law, finance, and advertising for nonprofit organizations only, in limited amounts)

Translation Experience

• Mathematical Reviews: Slavic in-house translator 1982-1984
• former Joint Publications Research Service ind. contractor 1981-1986 for most Slavic languages
• US Defense Mapping Agency: geodesy and cartography, much math, all Slavic languages, independent contractor since 1985

Agencies/References (a selection from over fifty)

• Accurapid
• CTI
• IDEM
• Quest
• The Language Service
• TCNY
• Transimpex

Nonscience Translations:

• About the Macedonian Language (Koneski),
• Macedonian Folklore (Sazdov),
• Poetry (Boshkovski),
• Macedonian Almanac (from Bulgarian, for an immigrant group)

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Related Work Experience

• Teaching Assistant in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Biochemistry, Computer Programming (1968-1978).
• Summer Research Assistant in Biochemistry, Harvard University.
• Proofreading and editing science and music, University Microfilms.

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Education and Travel

• A.B. Biochemistry Harvard 1972
• M A. Russian Language Boston College 1974
• Fulbright/ITT Scholar Belgrade, Serbia 1974-75
• ABD So. Slavic Linguistics U. of Michigan 1977
• PhD. Research, Translation Skopje, Macedonia 1977-80
• M.A. General Linguistics U. of Michigan 1981

• Thesis (unfinished) on Macedonian dialect phonology

• Summer schools in Eastern Europe in Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Albanian (1973-1983)

• College courses in biology, botany, biochemistry, chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, Latin, Greek, Armenian, Sanskrit, Hittite, Turkish, Romanian

Hardware and Software

IBM-compatible computer, WP5.1 for DOS, email delivery. Fax only on the fine setting, leave 1" margins, and enlarge small print first. I enjoy challenges but prefer legible copy. Please call first before faxing, but I do have a fax-phone switch.

Reference Materials

Extensive University of Michigan library collections of mono- lingual, bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, journals, textbooks

Private collection includes Czech-English Polytechnical, Medical, Computer, Electronics, Chemistry, Foundry, Business dictionaries, numerous other bilingual dictionaries; textbooks and dictionaries in medicine, chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, botany, ecology, geology, physics, electronics, etc.

Online dictionaries (free) listed at Rivendel.com and yourdictionary

Some good sites listed are:

• Albanian (a good intro to the language, dictionary still in the works though)
• Bulgarian, with a complete list of Cyrillic fonts and transliterations to choose from
• Czech many definitions, excellent
• Serbian-English. 260,000 words, new Feb 2001 - when using lynx page down three pages each time to see your search result. Part of a general-interest Serbian site with links to music and fashion and news.

Another site with links to online dictionaries, discussions of machine translation and demos, a translators' forum, and a place to list your services free is foreignword.

Gabe Bokor of Accurapid has both an online translators' journal but also a long listing of translation related sites.

Technical editing of my work by friends in medicine, computer hardware and software, engineering, electronics.

Availability - when you can catch me. Be persistent, I am rarely out of town. Can do up to 5000 words/day for limited periods, if legible.

Rates: $0.15/word standard turnaround; discounts (or free) for students, refugees and other unemployed immigrants, and deserving nonprofit groups.

Free translator referral service for other translators to and from Slavic, Baltic (Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian), Balkan (Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian), Hungarian, etc. Please call back with evaluations of their work and current contact information.

To contact the Slovene Technical and Scientific Translators' Association (for translations into Slovene) click here

IF I CAN'T DO THE JOB I WILL TRY TO FIND YOU SOMEONE WHO CAN

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