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English to Portuguese
Swahili to English

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Native in: English 
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My name is Jesse S Wheeler. I was born in the US and have lived in Germany, Scotland, Kenya and now Brazil (since 1999). I speak, read and write English natively, Portuguese fluently, and German and Swahili moderately well. I have a PhD in Ethnomusicology, which combines social sciences, humanities, and arts, while my Bachelors was in Speech with a minor in African Studies.


My translating and interpreting interests are wide ranging. In my capacity as a coordinator of groups in Brazil and other countries, through my company Encompass Brazil International, I had been called upon to interpret consecutively and simultaneously on subjects as diverse as finance, sanitation, health, architecture, economics, industry, commerce, the arts, agriculture, food technology, and more. I routinely translate documents in the social sciences and finance for professors at Brazilian universities, though I have also translated research in medicine, contracts, web sites for bands, and more. For my own enjoyment, I translate poetry and songs.


I also work doing whisper interpretation for marketing research (telephone-based).


I freelance as voice-over talent for e-learning and hope to branch out to do literature. I used to work in radio and enjoyed that immensely. I have an Irish band, Tanaman Dùl, in which I sing and play concertina.


I am easy to work with -- I deliver material when promised, charge reasonable rates, and work with clients to find a solution to just about any translation challenge. I even assist, when requested, by revising texts to improve the final product, as I did with a sociology professor at the University of Brasília, who hired me to translate an article he was preparing for publication in an English-language journal.


I look forward to hearing from you!

Keywords: Portuguese, English, finance, sociology, anthropology, literature, arts


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Jan 28, 2019