Chantal Pradines

A civil engineer and a translator

SCIENTIFIC TRAINING

• ECOLE CENTRALE, PARIS. Degree in Engineering (1979)

LANGUAGES

• Active command :

FRENCH - mother tongue -, GERMAN - mother tongue -, ENGLISH, SWEDISH

• Passive command :

DANISH, ITALIAN, DUTCH, NORWEGIAN

• Good knowledge (language understood in my specialist fields):

CHINESE

KEY DATES

• 1979-1980: ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, STOCKHOLM (KTH), SWEDEN, Researcher in the Rock and Soil Mechanics Laboratory

• 1980-1983: COLAS, Civil engineering contractor. Site engineer
• 1983-1988: FONDASOL, Geotechnical investigation company. Design engineer
• since 1986: Freelance translator. Member of the French Translators’ Association (SFT)Traductrice indépendante. Membre de la Société Française des Traducteurs
• since 2008:  All(i)ée. Avenues, infrastructures, landscape. Consultant. Expert to the Council of Europe

RESOURCES

• Technical resources:

- standard IT and telephone equipment

- word processing software, spreadsheets, PDF, OCR , term base and translation memory software

- document shredder

• Reference material:

- my own considerable collection of specialist works and reviews, in French and other languages, plus specialist dictionaries

- online documentation