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Berlin is not exactly overrun with Quebecers, is it?

As a Canadian, I am often asked what made me leave Québec to settle in Germany. The timeline below outlines key events from my journey towards becoming a freelance translator and interpreter in Berlin.

If you would like to learn more, you can read some reviews left by my clients since I started working as a French-speaking translator and interpreter in the German capital. You will also find my profile in the German Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ) database.

Working languages

French (A), German (B), English (C)

Consecutive and simultaneous interpretation

  • German to French, and French to German
  • English to French
  • French to English (liaison interpreting only)

Translation

  • German to French
  • English to French

Career path

1994
Montérégie (southwest of Québec), Canada
Elementary and high school

Attended various schools in the southwest of Québec (Montérégie); obtained a high school diploma (DES+) in the summer of 2005

2006
Montréal, Canada
College

Completed the 2-year pre-university program in languages at Cégep de Saint-Laurent (Montréal); obtained Diploma of College Studies (DEC) allowing entrance to university in the summer of 2008

2007
Berlin, Germany
First exchange

Three-week stay with a Berliner family

2008
Montréal, Canada
Bachelor’s degree

Completed a bachelor’s degree in German Studies (culture, language and history of Germany) with honours at the Université de Montréal. Diploma obtained in September 2011

2009
Berlin, Germany
Second exchange

Attended the Free University in Berlin (Freie Universität zu Berlin) for 11 months during the second year of the bachelor’s program in Montréal

2012
Saarbrücken, Germany
Master’s degree

Received a grant from the DAAD to attend the program in conference interpreting at the Universität des Saarlandes, located near the French border; completed the Master of Arts in translatology (translation and interpreting) in the summer of 2016

2017
Berlin, Germany
Recruitment at a technical translation agency

Returned to the German capital and gained first work experience as an in-house technical translator at tsd Technik-Sprachendienst GmbH, a translation agency founded over 40 years ago with its main office in Cologne and a branch office in Berlin

2018
Berlin, Germany
Recruitment at an e-commerce company

Worked as the in-house translator responsible for the French-speaking markets of Europe at expondo GmbH, a German-Polish B2B and B2C e-commerce company with a branch office in Berlin

2022
Berlin, Germany
Back to freelancing

Relaunch of the activities I performed as a freelance translator and interpreter from October 2013 to December 2016, with the addition of new services (SEO)

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