About me

My name is Lucy. I ´m a student at University. In 2008 I achieved the bachelor´s degree and now I would like to complete the second - master degree. I have been studying English language and literature and also Fine Art at the Faculty of Education in Slovakia. I´m an English teacher at a language school where I prepare my students for the Cambridge Certificate and where I teach Bussiness English for private companies. I´m a translator fo a private company dealing with gastronomy and gasto technology and I also work as a freelance translator. 

My biggest hobby is studying different languages and cultures, dealing with linguistic science and communicate with people with different nationalities.

 Work experience

Date (from - to): 25.8.2008 - 31.12. 2008, 6.2. 2009 - 31.12.2009
Name and address of the employer: PROTE-CH group, s. r. o.; Ulica Svornosti 41, Bratislava
Type of work: I am translating texts from English to Slovak and vice and versa. I am working in the field of Gastronomy (chocolates, coffees, wines, production process, etc.) but also in the field of technology (user manuals of coffee machines, etc.)
Position: Translator
Duties and responsibilities regarding the position: I am also responsible for the correctness of the translated texts, because I am not just the translator of the texts but also the corrector.

Date (from - to): 26.9. 2008 - 30.6.2009
Name and address of the employer: Sophia language school, Mostná 29, Nitra
Type of work: I teach students English language and I prepare them for the Cambridge Certificate. I also have Business English courses for companies.
Position: English teacher
Duties and responsibilities regarding the position: -

 Education

• Education attained:      UNIVERSITY EDUCATION (BACHELOR'S DEGREE)
• 2005 - 2008   THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINE PHILOSOPHER, FACULTY OF EDUCATION
                      FIELD OF STUDY: ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - FINE ART
• 1997 - 2005   8-YEAR GYMNÁZIUM-GRAMMAR SCHOOL, VEĽKÝ KRTÍŠ
                      FIELD OF STUDY: LANGUAGE SCHOOL
• 1993 - 2001   THE ART SCHOOL (ZÁKLADNÁ UMELECKÁ ŠKOLA) - 1.degree, VEĽKÝ KRTÍŠ 
                      FIELD OF STUDY: FINE ART
• 2001 - 2005     THE ART SCHOOL (ZÁKLADNÁ UMELECKÁ ŠKOLA) - 2.degree, VEĽKÝ KRTÍŠ 
                           FIELD OF STUDY: FINE ART

 additional courses and certificates

• DRIVING LICENCE: B CATEGORY; 
• DIPLOMA: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (ŠVOUČ); THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINE PHILOSOPHER, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, NITRA, 2009
• CERTIFICATE; 2nd place: STUDENT CONFERENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (ŠVOUČ) IN SLOVAKIA; THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINE PHILOSOPHER, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, NITRA, 2009
• CERTIFICATE: SLOVAK STUDENT CONFERENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (ŠVOUČ); THE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINE PHILOSOPHER, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, NITRA, 23.4.2007.
• FIRST AID CERTIFICATE; GYMNÁZIUM-GRAMMAR SCHOOL, VEĽKÝ KRTÍŠ

 personal skills and abillities

 language skills

ENGLISH - advanced
GERMAN - upper-intermediate
HUNGARIAN - Intermediate
LATIN – basic

computer skills – user

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR - advanced
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - advanced
CORELDRAW - intermediate
COREL PHOTO-PAINT - intermediate
INTERNET (E-MAIL, WWW) - advance
MICROSOFT OFFICE – advance

other knowledge, skills and competence

•  SKILLS IN TRANSLATING TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC TEXTS, TEXTS IN THE FIELD OF GASTRONOMY
•  KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF THE LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
•  KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN THE FIELD OF THE PEDAGOGY AND TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND FINE ART
•  WORKING WITH PEOPLE - ADULTS AND CHILDREN
•  GRAPHIC DESIGN
•  FLEXIBILITY, COMMUNICABILITY, PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR, RESPONSIBILITY, CREATIVITY
  

 Experience

• Language experience - studying English for about 12 years now, German 8 years
• Experience in translating texts - 2 YEARS OF WORKING EXPERIENCE
• teaching English language - 1 YEAR OF WORKING EXPERIENCE

 Interests and activities

• Education and trainings, the study of different languages
• Translating texts (technical) and dealing with linguistic science
• graphic design
• Working with children and people and communicate with them
• Reading books - literature, scientific literature, fictional and children ´s literature
• Traveling and meeting people with different nationalities
• Sport

Aim in life

• to obtain the master´s degree at the University at the faculty of the education and further develop my knowledge and skills
• to study and to learn English language, but also other languages such as German, Hungarian, Latin, Italy etc.
• to study the linguistics and other sciences
• to study the graphic design and other branches of Fine art
• to be successful and find a suitable job for me, where I could get a practice, develop my knowledge and acquire more working experience.

If you will need or want some samples of my work (already translated texts) in order to check my knowledge and skills, you can contact me and i will send you some of them.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. HAVE A NICE DAY :-)