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Adobe Acrobat, Amara, Crowdin, Google Translator Toolkit, MateCat, MemSource Cloud, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Smartling, Trados Studio, Transifex
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French-speaking Belgian of Egyptian descent, 41 y-o Iris Soliman started translating roughly 10 years ago, mostly with translation agencies. Mostly translated ES-FR, EN-FR, then PT-FR, RU-FR and CN-FR.
Also follows numerous MOOCs about a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to) security, Web development, data science...
*An important thing though: I DON'T OWN ANY BUSINESS.*
For now, her priority languages are English, Dutch, Chinese(Simplified, improving knowledge in Trad.Chinese), German, Portuguese and Spanish. HSK Levels 3 and 4.
In terms of translation topics, she did quite a lot of humanitarian translations (as a Translators without Borders volunteer) these last (nearly) 5 years. You can see an overview of what she has been working on here:
Also contributed to the Coursera Global Translators Community, which features every online course needing to be translated.
LANGUAGE LEARNING/REVIEWING IN PROGRESS: Turkish (MOOC), English Grammar (MOOC), Chinese (Simplified), Arabic (MSA, Egyptian and Gulf), Farsi, Bahasa Indonesia.
LEARNED/USES FOLLOWING CAT: Trados Studio, Phrase. Finished a course about SmartCAT. Planning to learn about Crowdin.