Work with Kostiantyn Ivantsov!

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Full time

€45

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Years of experience

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Full time translator

€45

Price per hour

€0.10

Starting price per word

Kostiantyn Ivantsov

a.k.a. Kos

Native Russian (RU) speaker in Pruszków, Poland

"Your texts will speak my language."

I’ve been working with materials on theology, philosophy, psychology for over 20 years. Every little detail, including pieces of poetry, gets my fullest attention and care.

If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink:
Good wine; a friend; because I’m dry;
Or lest I should be by and by;
Or — any other reason why.

Як дум моїх правдивий плин,
То люди п’ють з п’ятьох причин:
Це спрага, смак вина п’янкий,
Прощання, вірний друг близький
Та інший привід — будь-який.

Specializing in

Poetry User interfaces User guides Software English literature

Translation tools I use:

OmegaT Swordfish SmartCAT Wordfast CafeTrans MateCAT Memsource Lilt Aegisub

Languages

English to Ukrainian (UA)

10/10

Sworn

Certified

English to Russian (RU)

10/10

Sworn

Certified

Ukrainian to English (US)

9/10

Sworn

Certified

Russian to English (US)

9/10

Sworn

Certified

Russian to Ukrainian (UA)

10/10

Sworn

Certified

Swedish to Ukrainian (UA)

7/10

Sworn

Certified

Polish to English (GB)

7/10

Sworn

Certified

All language pairs

About Me

I have over twenty years of full-time experience as a translator/interpreter, both on staff and as an independent entrepreneur. I specialize in Christian literature. My translations have been published by Protestant and Catholic publishing houses, as well as several Orthodox websites. I am closely familiar with these branches of Christianity and the specifics of their theology and practice — and therefore their specific language — which enables me to provide accurate translations appropriate for the target audiences.
My interest in theology helped me to get acquainted with the fields philosophy and psychology.
Some materials I translate are a few centuries old; sometimes I translate things as they are being finished in their original language.
As an avid reader and student, I appreciate high quality of text and depth of research. When I translate, my goal is to make the materials as appreciated by the target readers, as it was intended by the author.

As a big Open Source Software enthusiast, I participate in several OSS projects, and in a few of them, I manage localization efforts. As a tech-savvy user, hobbyist programmer and L10N manager who deals with multiple individual translators and teams, I know ins and outs of the localization process. And as a localizer myself, I always strive to provide the best quality for the end users.

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This is how I continue my learning in my area of expertise

I always analyze editors’ changes to my translations to find my weak spots.
I have a tried and true set of go-to reference materials for my target languages. These are used to both deal with ongoing difficulties, and correct any discovered weaknesses.
I take extra time to familiarize myself with nuances and specifics of each translation job. Usually it leads to learning new things. By the way, learning things that you wouldn’t learn otherwise one of the major reasons why I love my work.
I keep up with new translation related technologies, and whenever possible, embrace them in my workflow, always making sure that my translation remains mine.

This is what motivates me to do my best work

Here’s a little quote from a recent email from a graphic designer working with my translation:

Kos, thank you so much for your work on this translation - both the main document and the image-translation spreadsheet were so organized and it made my end of the job so easy and pleasant!

I want people who encounter my work to be happy.

I am excited about these new developments with the translation technology I use

Personalized Machine Translation
Translation Team projects
Crossplatform CAT tools
Personalized multilingual corpora
Speech recognition
TTS

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References

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Сергей, Private publising

Мне нравится сотрудничать с Константином в контексте перевода, потому он все делает в срок. Несколько раз работа была сделана раньше срока, но никогда - не позже! Качеством перевода тоже очень доволен, не стыдно отсылать переведенные файлы носителям языка - все читается ими как “родное”. Рекомендую! Спасибо и тебе, Константин, за то, что делаешь все от сердца.

EN > RU

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Marisol Ruiz, Society for International Development

We had a great experience collaborating with Kostiantyn on the translation. He was extremely throrough, detail oriented and careful with the work. The document was delivered on time as agreed and overall the communications were extremely productive. He went above and beyond to support the translation of the project. Very happy to have collaborated with him and will continue to reach out on our future projects.

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Roman Mironov, Velior

Our company has been working with Kostiantyn Ivantsov for about 10 years.

He is a highly-qualified translation professional, very well-versed in the subject matter areas he works with, especially religion.

Kos is very meticulous about quality and deadlines.

He is also keeps up with the latest translation technology, which helps him offer very competitive prices.

It’s been our pleasure and privilege to know and work with Kos.

He is one of the few translators who I will recommend without any reservations.

EN > UK

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Diane Bible, Ministry Developers Network

Kostia worked for us for 20 years and has increased steadily in his translation skills. We consider him highly qualified and have always been pleased with his work. And we will continue to choose him above anyone else for any future translation. He is also dependable and after evaluating how much time he needs for a project almost always produces within that time. Superior!

EN > UK

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Montse Sardà

Kos is an outstanding professional. He completed a proofreading project with excellent results. He paid great attention to detail and delivered a consistent ready-for-publication text, following the instructions provided by the client. He also proved to be very reactive during our correspondence. To be recommended without reserves.

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Prices

Language	Literary & Creative	Software & App	Subtitles
ENGLISH > UKRAINIAN (UA)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word
ENGLISH > RUSSIAN (RU)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word
UKRAINIAN > ENGLISH (US)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word
RUSSIAN > ENGLISH (US)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word
RUSSIAN > UKRAINIAN (UA)	€0.10per word	€0.10per word	€0.10per word
SWEDISH > UKRAINIAN (UA)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word
POLISH > ENGLISH (GB)	€0.12per word	€0.12per word	€0.12per word

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Education

University (1)

Ongoing learning (7)

Associations (0)

Certificates (0)

University

Vinnitsa State Pedagogical University

Master of Education in Elementary School Teacher

Journal

MultiLingual

MultiLingual Media

Book

Як ми говоримо

Б. Д. Антоненко-Давидович

Book

Як парость виноградної лози

M. T. Рильський

Book

Слово про слово

К. О. Гордієнко

Book

Слово живое и мёртвое

Нора Галь

Other

Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (Podcast)

Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty)

Book

Справочник по правописанию и литературной правке. Для работников печати.

Д. Э. Розенталь

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