Member since Dec '24

Working languages:
English to Swedish
Swedish to English
Finnish to Swedish
Finnish to English
English (monolingual)

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Sofia Ekebom
MA in Intercultural Encounters

Finland
Local time: 11:42 EET (GMT+2)

Native in: Swedish (Variant: Finlandssvenska) Native in Swedish, English Native in English
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I have been a freelance translator since 2021, and my main language pairs are:
EN->SW
SW->EN
FI->SW
FI->EN

I also have experience in NO->SW, DA->SW, and DA->EN. Some limited experience in DE->SE and DE->EN.

Topics I have covered thus far:
Product description translation
Medical product description translation
Website translation
Newsletter translation
User manual translation
Legal document (~33000 words)
Social sciences report (~41000 words)
Self-translated my published short story from Swedish to English (Henriettas gäst->Henrietta's Guest, available on Amazon, if interested in preview). Translated it in only one day, with positive reader feedback (two reviews on Goodreads, one on Amazon).
Biological science translations
Marketing
Financial Emails (MTPE)

I have also done proofreading only, as well as review only tasks.

I occasionally translate DA->SW as well as DA->EN.

In 2019, I was a journalism and photography intern at a newspaper.

Education:
MA, Intercultural Encounters, completed in English, University of Helsinki, Finland
Specialisation modules: Communication and Media, Religion and Diversity (formerly named Religion, Conflict and Dialogue)
BA, Comparative Literature, completed in Swedish,  Lund University, Sweden
Diploma of Higher Education, Political Science, completed in Swedish,  Linnaeus University, Sweden

Other: Visiting student, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Autumn semester 2018.

Both the Diploma and the BA have included classes conducted in English. My MA includes a class in linguistics as well as a class in cross-cultural psychology. 

Languages studied in the past:
German
Spanish 
French
Danish
Norwegian

Swedish speaker, born and raised in Finland (Finland is a bilingual country). Finland-Swedish is mainly an oral variant of Swedish, and I follow standard language rules for Swedish (unless the project asks for a Finland-Swedish flavour).


Hobbies in brief:
Creative Writing
Drawing
Photography
Keywords: swedish finnish english socialsciences humanities arts entertainment religion