I am completely bilingual and confident in my mastery of both English and Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Montenegrin), thus I can switch between these as the target language. To someone with my training, education and background, the difference between the latter four is, in many ways, similar to the difference between US English and UK English.

I should mention that my age and the fact that, back when Serbo-Croatian was a single, unified language, I spoke and had studied the Bosnian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, make me uniquely equipped to understand (on a native level) both Serbian and Croatian, along with my native Bosnian, and even Montenegrin as the newest addition to the languages that emerged from Serbo-Croatian.

People only a few years younger than me will have never studied Serbo-Croatian.

You see, as far as the institutions of education in the region were concerned the language had dissolved at and around the same time the former country did, and these people will have been learning merely one dialect—of this, in all linguistic seriousness, much richer language—as part of their education. It's also worth pointing out that people who are native speakers of either Serbian or Croatian dialect are often less capable of having a profound understanding of the other one than us Bosnians are, because of the fortunate fact that our Bosnian dialect was always a happy mix of both Croatian and Serbian.

So, you see, one of the areas I specialise in is the pluricentricity of both of my native/working languages. This means I work with Cyrillics daily and can read it as well as the Latin script. This also means that you no longer need different translators and/or editors based in different parts of the anglophone world! Being a specialist for the pluricentric nature of both of my working languages, having been studying and daily honing my pluricentric skills for 20 odd years now, I work in US, Canadian, Aussie, and NZ variants of English as well as any translator and/or editor based in these countries, despite myself speaking UK English

Translation: The proof is always in the pudding. So, rather than impressing you with a great (on paper) looking bio, I'd prefer to impress you with my work. Let's work together on a small project, since actual work is the only proper way to vet anyone's skills and prowess!

Transcreation: Perhaps the best way to vet my transcreation skills is to check the quality of my poetry and song translations. Please take any of the sample song transcreations from the sample translation section and check the quality of my work.

English monolingual services: Professional proofreading and editing to perfect your document, ghostwriting – if you need to write it, I can. I help non-natives or natives who aren't linguistically-inclined, with polishing their writing in any of these 5 languages.

Interpreting: If you're looking for a superb interpreter at a professional but reasonable rate, please do get in touch.

Education: Studied translation/interpreting English <> Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian (as well as anglophone literature and EFL teaching) at the University of Sarajevo, at the BA and MA levels.

I am an excellent, very versatile translator with years of training and experience! I do most enjoy creative work translations and transcreation, but I am incredibly confident in my understanding of more technical fields like IT, law, science, and medicine. One proficient enough in getting poetry from one language to another shouldn't have any problems with more technical fields, as jargon can be learned (more or less) quickly, whilst the mastery of particular languages is honed over time.

I have all the skills needed to do meticulous research of the professional field the translation project is from and this is hugely important for the accuracy of the translation. I also benefit from having a digital native from gen-Z helping me with the research, making it as efficient as humanly possible.

So you see, I am well adapted to the times. I never improvise using descriptive terminology that (sort of maybe) sounds accurate, that many translators resort to when in a bind and having never learned how to maximise research efficiency — when the translation field switched from in-house to the remote way of doing business and from analogue to digital way of doing the work and research.

I enjoy learning psychology, especially evolutionary psychology (Jordan Peterson /before he lost the plot/ and especially Jonathan Haidt), and, at the moment, neuroscience-based biohacking, especially Andrew Huberman's work is of particular interest to me.