1. Editorial work:
I write and/or translate articles, for Meeting & Incentive Media (www.meetingmedia.be) among others. I am also a translator/editor for their yearbook “Meeting Trends” (in English, circulation: 5,000 copies.) These articles usually take the form of ‘infomercials’, with a clear stress on information, but also highlighting certain for aspects the customer. I also write articles for other companies, usually from an informative/tourist angle.
2. Linguistic Research:
As a freelance linguistic researcher, I've worked for Scansoft, as an In-house Language Specialist at the Scansoft European Headquarters in Merelbeke (Belgium.) My work mainly consisted of creating and verifying lexical entries and also designing limited queries.
I've also worked for the Hogeschool Gent as a linguistic researcher on the Uruk-project. My responsibilities consisted of validating research results generated by a text analysis tool and using the validation results to write a research report.
3. Teaching:
During the school year of 2003-2004 I taught Spanish in evening classes in Waregem.
Since my graduation, I've also worked for a number of private schools, located in Kortrijk, Ghent and Brussels. The teaching assignments included: crash courses in Spanish for two managers (40 hours/week), helping a university student of Spanish with her Spanish history (+-20 hours) and teaching business Dutch to French-speaking people (100+ hours in different groups.) My last assignment consisted of teaching a 60 hour course to three groups of French-speaking people from a law firm in Brussels.
Towards the end of 2004 I had the pleasure to be able to return to my 'Alma Mater,' the Hogeschool Gent, Department of Translation Studies as a guest lecturer/teaching assistant in Higher Education. I replaced one of the teaching assistants in the Dutch Faculty from November to the end of December, 2004, teaching presentation techniques to third-year students. Between October and December of 2004 I gave lectures on 'Community Interpreting' to third-year Erasmus students, this time for the English Faculty.