Translating Your Beauty, Fashion, Tourism and Video Game Texts to Italian

Italian native speaker graduate (BA, MA and post-grad) translator, working in the English > Italian and French > Italian language pairs, Certified PRO for the English > Italian language pair, and specializing in:

Fashion & Jewelry

• Translation of product detail pages for a renowned sportswear brand's e-commerce website.
• Website localization for brands of clothing, footwear, eyewear, watches, jewelry and other accessories.
• Translation of brochures, catalogs, product descriptions, lookbooks, press releases, newsletters, social media content, training materials for salespersons, letters and other materials for internal use.

Cosmetics, Beauty & Make-Up

• Translation of product descriptions: skincare, make-up, fragrances.
• Translation of brochures and articles about cosmetics.

Tourism & Hospitality

• Translation of several online articles, tour itineraries and their metadata for Guide to Iceland; some examples:
  

  - Sightseeing in Reykjavík (Giri turistici a Reykjavík);

  - Iceland's Volcanoes: The Complete Guide (La guida completa ai vulcani in Islanda);

  - The Ultimate Guide to the Blue Lagoon (La guida completa alla Laguna Blu).

• Website localization for high-end hotels, timeshares and hotel chains: descriptions of destinations, vacation packages, accommodations, restaurants, spas, activities, services and facilities, special offers, cancellation policies, loyalty program terms and conditions.
• Translation of press releases for sporting events, training materials for employees, job postings, letters and other materials for internal use.

Video Games

• Localization of video games texts for agencies and for Ankama Group: NPC dialogs, UI, descriptions of objects and characters, etc. for MMORPGs, mobile games and console games; newsletters, changelogs and blog posts.
• Translation of marketing texts and characters background stories and descriptions for a big US-based gaming company.

Subtitling

• Translation of subtitles from English or French timed templates: promotional videos, corporate videos, training videos, TV series, movies and documentaries.
• Volunteer subtitler for TED.
• Team translation from English into Italian of the subtitles for the movie Dying in Athens by Nikos Panayotopoulos, showed at the 8th European Film Festival in Lecce (Italy).
• Subtitle translation from English into Italian of the first episode of the BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for my Master's thesis: Subtitling an English science fiction TV series for an Italian audience: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

For further translation samples please visit my portfolio.

“I outsourced some video game texts to Valentina and she brilliantly managed to provide quality translations in a timely fashion. She succeeded in keeping the requested style and terminology while asking the right questions. Definitely working with her again!”

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VAT-registered professional as per Italian Law no. 4/2013 since 2013

VAT​ No.: IT 02936590732

AITI associate member, number 218103

IAPTI member, number 923

Member of Women in Localization (Italy Chapter & Global Community)

Member of the ITI Beauty Fashion and Luxury Network