monica.nieminen - News

Lifelong learning - ecolinguistics

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:31:00 +0000

I am a strong believer in lifelong learning, both professionally and on a personal level. A linguist is never "ready": in order to stay up to date with what's going on in the world of language, one must keep studying and reading. One of the most recent courses I enrolled in is The Stories We Live By, an online course in ecolinguistics organised by the University of Gloucestershire. You've hopefully learned by now how passionate I am about combating the climate change so this is a natural extension to it. I'm planning to write about the subject soon so stay tuned!

Proofreading services

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:29:00 +0000

I would like to remind you that I am also proofreading/editing texts that were originally written in Finnish. It does require different skills to edit the text if there is no original English text for reference but I am confident in doing that.

In fact, I just finished proofreading and editing several pages long leaflet for a Nordic animal food provider. I didn't only edit the mistakes, as I was paid to do, but I also provided some suggestions, free of charge. The customer can now easily improve the tone of the text if they are happy to implement my free suggestions.

Do you have a text you wish another pair of eyes to view?

Please do not hesitate to contact me. I can provide you with a quote within hours.

25 projects through Motaword

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:26:00 +0000

Between my other translation and proofreading projects, I have contributed to 25 projects through Motaword this year.

View Motaword certificate

Facebook added Climate Science Information Center

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:24:00 +0000

"The Climate Science Information Center is a dedicated space on Facebook with factual resources from the world’s leading climate organizations and actionable steps people can take in their everyday lives to combat climate change... We will also include posts from relevant sources to highlight climate science news. " Source: about.fb.com/news/2020/09/stepping-up-the-fight-against-climate-change

I'm passionate about promoting ecologically sustainable living and this latest news motivated me to help Facebook with their Fnnish pages by translating and rating the proposed translations.

EU Songbook

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:32:00 +0000

I had the privilege to contribute to the first EU Songbook which will be published soon. This interesting project contained translating a professional letter and an advert from English into Finnish. The letter had to be absolutely perfect but that was not an issue because I always deliver a high quality translation.

Why not engage me on your next project? Fast turnaround, high quality, always affordable prices!

Exciting new pro bono partners

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:34:00 +0000

I am happy to announce that I have started helping ESO, the European Southern Observatory, with transcribing their videos into Finnish. I'm also contributing to Charity Translators' projects with my Finnish languages skills.

Current pro bono projects

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:01:00 +0000

I'm currently doing pro bono work for TED and Crowdin.

The TED Talk I'm translating and subtitling at the moment is about period positivity.

I'm translating and localising the following mobile phone applications through Crowdin:

KeePassium Password Manager
Seek by iNaturalist
Sponge - A community-driven open source Minecraft: Java Edition modding platform.