English/French translation of editorial, web, marketing and creative content: keeping the meaning, style and flow of the original while respecting your brand voice and your reader's expectations.
Some documents only need to be understood. Others have to do something: persuade, move, make someone read the next line. Those are the texts I translate, looking for the equivalent of an intention rather than of a sentence.
A brand, an author or a publication already has a tone. Before translating, I read what has been published to pick up register, recurring habits and the relationship with the reader. The translation extends that voice instead of layering a new one on top.
Framing of use and audience, questions on ambiguous source passages, translation, then a cold review pass before delivery. Remaining questions come back to you with the file rather than being silently decided.
Documents you send stay confidential and are never reused outside the project. An NDA can be signed before any files are shared if your organisation requires it.
“Translating is writing again, under someone else's constraints.”
