Hi! My name is Vlaiko* Boyadzhiev, originally from Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

I am currently working as a freelance translator & interpreter between Bulgarian & Norwegian – for the Norwegian Police, Immigration Authorities (UDI) & UNE among others, in addition to managing my own Oslo-based Translation & Interpreting Agency, Norsk Språkservice (NSS).

NSS I still kind of regard as the “offspring” of Institute 66, which I started back in 1990. The “parent” company, Institute 66 Language & Translation Center, was established as one of the first privately owned language schools in Bulgaria, with the heaviest emphasis on language training (despite the fair amount of translation work done): 9,000 course participants in the course of almost 9 years.

On the hobbies side, I am still completing a dictionary project on slang I started here at the University of Oslo, Norway

Here you can preview samples of my work, as well as order copies of the dictionary in electronic form (on a floppy disk or CD-ROM).

* Vlaiko is incidentally now also the name of a microchip placed on board the US STARDUST research spacecraft.

BACKGROUND

MA degree in English Studies from Sofia University. Minor in German Philology. Teacher-Training Courses. Areas of specialization: translation theory & practice, lexicology. Thesis on Nominal Compounding in English.

Previous study periods abroad: Oslo University, Leeds University. Grunnfag course in Norwegian at the University of Oslo, on a Norwegian government scholarship, 1998-99. International Summer School, Oslo University (1998), Courses C-16 and C-21. See also ISS.

Previously completed the Rauland Academy, Rauland, Norway (one of the so called Norwegian folk-highschools and presently Institutt for folkekultur - Rauland): course in Philosophy, lecturer Nils Gilje. Optional courses: History of Norwegian Dialects; Norwegian Folklore.

Previously completed with honors the nationally prestigious English Language School, Plovdiv.

LANGUAGES

Bulgarian: mother tongue. Good working knowledge of both Norwegian and English: speaking and writing abilities. Good understanding of Russian, Swedish and German. Reading knowledge of Danish. Some basic Dutch. Rudimentary Spanish.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

* Lecturer of Norwegian at Plovdiv University (Feb 1997 – May 1998). You can find my name on the Lists of Teachers of Norwegian teaching at European universities, updated by the Norwegian Ministries of Foreign Affairs & Education.

* Director of Institute 66 Language & Translation Center (1990-98). EFL teacher & translator at Institute 66. Norwegian-language teacher at Institute 66. Freelance translator & interpreter between English & Bulgarian, Scandinavian & Bulgarian since 1984.

* Lecturer of practical English at Plovdiv University (1995-97).

* English-language translator & newsreader at the former African Service of Bulgarian National Radio (see: Radio Bulgaria). Lyrics translator at BNR's rock & pop department.

* Lecturer of Norwegian at Det Norske Lektorat, Sofia University.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Norwegian-English Dictionary of Current English Slang, Colloquialisms & Related Phraseology, the first of its kind bilingual dictionary in Norway, still in the stages of being compiled. Here you can preview samples of my work, as well as order copies of the dictionary in electronic form (on a floppy disk or CD-ROM).

My brother Stan completed his B.A. in Economics and Business Administration at Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa. He is currently working as Financial Planning Assistant for a company in Chicago.

Interested in reading my more detailed resume? Just click on my picture below:

Please feel free to email me.

Or you can snail-mail me at: NSS, Knut Alvssonsvei 9, 0574 Oslo, Norway. Thanks for your interest.

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