TED Community » Alba González

About Me

I'm a violin player and a translator/proofreader.

This is my last year on the two different degrees I'm studying.

On the one hand, I'm about to finish my Translation and Interpreting studies (the languages I study and work with are English, Spanish, Galician, French and German).

I have always been so passionate about languages (I was born bilingual, having Spanish and Galician as mother tongues). Even my parents would notice, so they sent me to an English school when I was three years old.

Since then I have been trying to get better everyday: I started learning French, I chose German as the third language when I started my Translation and Interpreting studies, I started learning Catalan when I moved to Castellon de la Plana...

As a translator/localizer and proofreader, I have been working with the Mozilla Foundation (Mozilla Hispano community) since June 2012. Thanks to that, I was able to start using Amara and get used to new ways of translating.

On the other hand, there is my Bachelor of Music degree in Violin. I've been studying violin since I was seven years old.
Apart from my official studies in three different conservatories, I have also taken lessons with great violinists here in Spain, and I have been part of several orchestras.

Nowadays I work for the Col Legno orchestra, which is focused on the performance of Spanish music.