Elaine Liew
OBJECTIVE: To find an on-line position as a part-time freelance translator and/or subtitler for an established firm.
EDUCATION: Completed 6 years (1972-1977) of primary education and 5 years (1978-1982) of secondary schooling.
1 year’s secretarial course (1983)
WORK EXPERIENCE: 1 year working as a trainee secretary with a German Company (1984)
5½ years working first as receptionist-cum-typist and later as a junior secretary and accounts officer with a local firm (1985-1990)
19½ years as a full-time, fully-voluntary (unpaid) Christian missionary
based mostly in the East-Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak
(1990 – 2010)
Currently at home helping to care for ailing parent and doing some
on-line freelance translation and subtitling work.
SKILLS: Typing: Speed 60wpm
Computer: MS Word, Excel
Native Languages: English & Malay
Language skills: English, Malay, Mandarin (simplified & traditional),
Cantonese (able to read, write and converse in all of the above languages)
Presently learning Thai
Interpreting and Translating: Malay to English
English to Malay
SPECIALIZATION: Literature, education, sports, music, entertainment, arts, agriculture, culinary, travelling, history, geography, biology, general science, religion, others
INTERESTS: Travelling, classical music (I play the keyboard, organ and violin), reading, cooking, learning languages, swimming, walking, jungle-trekking.
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