Languages

Expertise

Additional work areas: Accounting & Auditing • Advertising • Cinema, Film, TV, Drama • Computer Hardware • Copywriting • Engineering: (general) • Engineering: Energy / Power Generation • Engineering: Nuclear • European Union • Finance / Economics (general) • Folklore • Food/Nutrition/ Dairy Technology • Gastronomy • General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters • Government / Politics • History • Human Resources • IT / E-Commerce / Internet • Insurance • International Development/Cooperation • Journalism • Law: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks • Literature / Poetry • Localization (Software/Websites) • Marketing / Market Research / Retail • Media / Multimedia • Medical (general) • Slang • Transportation / Transport / Shipping • Travel & Tourism

About me

I am a native Hindi & Urdu linguist

Qualifications

 Education

B.A.

Experience

Background

Working as a Freelance Linguist & Journalist.

Translation Experience

Literature: Translation of 1 novel, 1 short stories collection, numerous short stories and poems. More than 2,550,000 words translated from English to Hindi, Hindi to Urdu, Urdu to Hindi and English to Urdu.

Technical: More than 1,000,000 words of IT, medical, commercial, legal, engineering and other documents for various Indian and overseas agencies and direct clients.

References

Personal reference library

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of English

Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary

American Heritage Dictionary

Dictionary of Foreign Words & Phrases in English

Oxford Dictionary of Slang

Roget's Thesaurus

Glossaries (Administration, Banking, Science & Technology, Agriculture) published by Central Hindi Institute, Govt. of India

Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus (on my PC)

Chambers English-Hindi Dictionary

Bahri's English-Hindi Dictionary

Bulke's English-Hindi Dictionary

Standard English-Hindi Dictionary (Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag)

Hindi Thesaurus by National Book Trust, India

Brihat Hindi Kosh (Hindi-Hindi Comprehensive Dictionary)

Urdu-Hindi Dictionary

Hindi-Urdu Dictionary

English-Urdu Dictionary

Urdu-Urdu Dictionary (Firoz-ul-Lughat)

Black's Law Dictionary

Black's Medical Dictionary

Medical Dictionary (Merriam Webster) hosted by NIH

English-Hindi Dictionary of Scientific and Medical terms published by Govt. of India

Websites of NIH, WHO, clinicaltrials.gov, and other online resources.

Legal & medical documents, IT.

Advertisements, brochures, annual reports, financial statements, contracts, manuals, feasibility reports & studies, government regulations.

Website-contents.