I’m a seasoned, dedicated and professional linguist, and have spent the majority of my life working with and learning languages. Being brought up just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, I was raised bilingually in English and Scots, starting a life-long passion for language. I then started learning German and French at school, and later continued my language studies into university. I’m now in my final year of a MA French and German (Hons) degree at the University of Edinburgh where I’m researching for a dissertation on disability within 20th century Germany. I have a Certificate in Translation (CertTrans) from the Chartered Institute of Linguists, where I'm also a registered associate (ACIL).

I’ve been lucky enough to win awards for my language skills, such as the SCP Student of the Year in Modern Languages at Edinburgh College, as well as three prizes from the German Consulate in Edinburgh for ‘outstanding achievements in learning German’. In addition to studying languages at the University of Edinburgh, I studied German at the Open University part-time while in high school, and I spent the summer of 2019 studying the German language, culture and history at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University Berlin) thanks to a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). I’ve also had the great fortune to travel around and experience various areas of France, Belgium and Germany.

I also have experience working in IT, spending my summer holidays at school working at Millersoft Ltd. There I was able to use my language skills to create multilingual marketing videos for clients. This path also gave me a good foundation in working in the IT sector, basic coding skills, website design and management, handling of private information, and many more skills which translate well into the translation sector, especially into localisation of apps and websites.