Mr Daniel Sebesta FITI

• Native Czech linguist based in Prague, Czechia.
• Specialized in law, business, marketing & technology.
• 22+ years in professional language services.
• In-house experience from the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission.
• Former researcher at the Czech Language Institute (ÚJČ) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (AV ČR).
• Previously also a lexicographer at Nakladatelství Olomouc, co-author of German<>Czech dictionaries.
• MA in Czech & German linguistics & legal translation qualification from Charles University in Prague. MBA in Pricing & Strategy from the University of Rochester. Also educated in New Zealand (University of Otago), Germany (Humboldt-Universität) & Canada (ELS Toronto).
• Chartered Linguist (CL), Diploma in Translation (DipTrans, English>Czech), assessed by the UK’s Institute of Translators and Interpreters (ITI, English>Czech, Czech>English, German>Czech).
• Certified as an English & German translator by national authorities in Czechia
and as a Czech translator by national authorities in Germany.
• Sworn translator in Czechia (Czech<>German, Czech<>English) & Germany (Czech<>German).
• Certified advanced user of SDL Trados Studio & MultiTerm. Other tools supported, too.
• Memberships: Fellow (FCIL) of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL), Qualified Member (MITI) of the Institute of Translators and Interpreters (ITI), member of the American Translators Association (ATA, Administrator of Language Technology Division & Organizer of 2025 Virtual Conference), member of the German Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (BDÜ), member of the French Société française des traducteurs (SFT), member of the Czech Union of Interpreters and Translators (JTP).
• Author of Native-speaker status in the translation services market (2013).
• Conference presentations & webinars on pricing & language technology.
• Organizer of educational & networking events for language professionals (Prague Peer Reviews, LocLunch).
• Digital nomad & passionate traveler (110+ visited countries).

ITI membership category: FITI

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Translation

Czech English
ITI Assessed
English Czech
ITI Assessed
German Czech
ITI Assessed
French Czech  
Slovak Czech  

Specialisms

  • Advertising
  • Air traffic
  • Annual reports
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Automotive engineering
  • Beer
  • Branding
  • Brexit
  • Business
  • Certificates
  • Climate change
  • Clothing
  • Commerce
  • Computer hardware
  • Computer software
  • Contracts
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Data processing
  • Defence
  • Economics
  • Education and training
  • EU matters
  • Information technology
  • Internet
  • Law
  • LGBTQ+
  • Literature - Childrens
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Recycling and renewables
  • Shipping
  • Social media
  • Tourism and travel
  • Transport
  • Website localisation

Associated skills

  • Abstracting
  • Adaptation
  • Business writing
  • Copywriting
  • Editing
  • Language training
  • Machine translation - post editing
  • Project management
  • Proofreading
  • Revising
  • SEO/SEA translation
  • Software localization
  • Subtitling
  • Transcription
  • Voiceovers

Technology

  • memoQ
  • SDL Trados Studio
  • XTM Cloud

CPD achieved within last 6 years

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