Native English and Mandarin Chinese speaker in Singapore. I live in a multilingual environment and use both languages on a daily basis. Singapore English adheres to the British English conventions of spelling and grammar. I also work with American and British English. Direct clients preferred.

My areas of interest are agriculture, international development, art, design, tourism and travel. I also do forward translations, back translations, proofreading and linguistic validation of medical questionnaires.

Education
BA(Hons) Arts (Linguistics, English Language major)
MA Translation & Interpreting Studies
IoLET Level 6 Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Law Option)

Translation experience
1.5 years in-house subtitling and translating experience.
Translations I have done include:
Documents on agriculture, finance and human rights for China-Europa Forum
Documents on immigration for UK Border Agency
Subtitling and copywriting for the media industry
Theatre scripts
Medical questionnaires (forward translation, back translation, proofreading)
Instruction manual for fitness equipment
Art exhibition captions and designers' profiles
Interpreting experience
I was selected as one of four students from my school to visit the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) as a trainee interpreter in 2010 and received feedback from professional interpreters.

Public service interpreting for the National Health Service (NHS)
Simultaneous interpreting at the dbAccess Asia Conference
Consecutive interpreting at the opening of Dior Backstage Studio @ ION Orchard, Singapore International Coin Fair 2015.

I have proofread a book titled "Processes and Process-Orientation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning" (credited: Tham Siang Yu).

Linguistic background
There are four official languages in Singapore: English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Singaporeans receive bilingual education. English is the medium of instruction in Singapore and is taught in school as a first language for all students. The ethnic mother tongue (Mandarin, in my case) is concurrently taught as a second language.

What my clients say:
“We can tell that you put in a lot of thought and effort to bring us the best translations you can provide in your capacity as a translator. My colleague was praising the translations, saying that on the whole, the word choices are apt and essence of the concepts seems to be captured. Keep up the good work!”

“Siang has consistently presented high quality deliverables that are at once timely and accurate. I would be happy to have someone of her calibre on my team and I would recommend her services to anyone.”