Only a professional translator has the necessary academic background, training and resources to produce a translation that is accurate, natural-sounding, and as effective as the original.

Don’t entrust your message to a well-meaning friend who studied some Spanish back in college and would like to help you out (hint: she may do more harm than good). Don’t entrust it to your acquaintance who is bilingual but who has had no translation training or experience whatsoever (hint: would you let someone other than a dentist remove your wisdom tooth?) Whatever you do, don’t entrust it to a machine (hint: just don’t).

Make sure you put your English message in the hands of a qualified, experienced, professional English-Spanish translator who is a native Spanish speaker and has a deep knowledge of the workings of both English and Spanish as well as an acute understanding of the cultures that speak them.

That’s where I step in.

I was born in Rosario, Argentina and Spanish is my native language. But the English language and I go way back.

When I was 5 years old I begged my mother to sign me up for English classes. She did (she’s awesome that way), and my love affair with the English language and the cultures that speak it was born. It wasn’t too long after that that I decided that bridging the gap between those cultures and my own was how I wanted to spend my life.

And so for the past 10+ years I have been happily providing English-Spanish translation services to businesses, individuals, and translation agencies alike. For several years I also served as a project manager at an American-based translation agency providing language services to some of the largest educational publishing houses in the United States. I have successfully led to completion dozens of highly complex, time-sensitive translation projects for the US K-12 textbook market. This has furnished me with an invaluable, inside-out knowledge of the translation process. Which is to say: I know exactly what it takes to make a translation project successful. (If you’d like to hear more about my experience in the publishing industry and how you can benefit from it by working with me, you can head over here.)

I hold diplomas in English-Spanish Translation and English-Spanish Interpreting, both from Olga Cossettini College, home to one of the best translation programs in Argentina (it is listed first under the American Translators Association List of Approved Translation and Interpreting Schools around the world) and a Postgraduate Degree in Translation from the University of Rosario, Argentina.

So you can see I’ve got the qualifications and I’ve got the experience. But perhaps more importantly, I have the passion and the drive only a lifetime of commitment to the beauty and the power of words can foster. And when a translation is crafted by a qualified, experienced, committed, passionate professional―trust me, it shows.

The American Translator’s Association, or ATA, is a professional association founded to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters all over the world. In 1973, ATA established a certification program that allows translators to demonstrate that they meet certain standards of the translation profession. In order to acquire this certification, translators must pass a challenging three-hour, proctored, written exam with a very low passing rate. For English into Spanish translation, the total pass rate for 2004-2014 was less than 12%. In 2018, I set myself the challenge to sit for the exam and obtained the ATA certification in my language pair, becoming one of less than 600 English to Spanish ATA-certified translators in the world. As the ATA website points out, the ATA certification is a voluntary demonstration of translation skills. This in itself reflects a strong commitment with the profession, its ethical practice, and its quality standards. In fact, ATA-certified translators must fulfill certain continuing education requirements periodically in order to revalidate their certification and demonstrate their sustained commitment to knowledge and skills.

A, deadlines are sacred: publishing houses are subject to strict printing schedules; when they miss a printer deadline their books just don’t get printed; jeopardizing a publishing house’s ability to make it to the printer on time is just not an option, under any circumstance, ever;

B, client specifications are sacred: textbooks in the United States need to pass strict reviews by states’ School Boards in order to be approved for commercialization; failing to meet the criteria that is necessary in order to pass those reviews (and guarantee the educational quality of the product) means the books won’t make it to the bookstores and all the hard work and money invested in it over the previous several months are basically wasted;