A life with languages 

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My name is Katerina Nikita and I wear many hats - I am a translator, copywriter and editor.

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Born and raised in Athens, my native language is Greek. My first foreign language was English, shortly followed by German. During my teenage years, I would attend summer language schools abroad, both in the UK and Germany.

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This nurtured my love for languages and traveling, and led to my decision to study abroad. After finishing high school, I moved to Germany to pursue a BA in Language, Culture & Translation at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. 

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Upon completing my BA in 2015, I knew that I wanted to delve deeper into translation and choose a specialisation whilst continuing to study and live in an international campus. As a result, I made my way to Manchester, UK, where I graduated with a MA in Translation and Interpreting Studies from the University of Manchester in 2016. My areas of specialisation included audiovisual translation, translation technologies and translation for international organisations.

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In autumn of 2016, I moved to London where I have been living ever since and started freelancing as a translator, editor and copywriter on a part-time basis. I currently balance this with my 9-to-5 as a Senior Content Manager at a digital marketing agency, There I hone my skills as a language services and cultural consultancy specialist, and help some of the world's biggest and most exciting web, tech, fitness and food brands localise their content in a manner that allows them to go truly global (or should I say truly local?!)

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As a result, I have gained valuable experience in website and app localisation, translation of e-commerce and social media content, subtitling, and transcreation of marketing materials for a variety of channels by working with both language service providers and direct clients.

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In addition to the above, since 2019 I have been working together with the team at Omilo Greek Language & Culture, an independent private school offering Greek courses for adults, and creating content for their blog, newsletter and social media channels in both Greek and English. I have also contributed to several of their bilingual eBook publications both by writing original copy and by translating texts.