Ana Maria Zuniga

Ana Maria started as an English to Spanish and French to Spanish freelance translator in Santiago, Chile in 1992, and continued when she moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1997; incorporating her freelance translation practice as AZ World Translation and Interpretation Inc. in 2006 as a full service translation and interpretation agency. As a freelance translator and an agency owner, Ana Maria’s focus is on delivering high quality results; she uses computer assisted translation software such as SDL Studio 2014, Trados 2007, Déjà Vu X and Fortis that develops a translation memory (TM). Unique to each client, the TM is continually updated according to each client’s needs and the project’s unique characteristics. Using a TM ensures the consistency of style, lexicon, sentence structure and details are maintained from project to project, reducing costs and increasing the quality of each translation project. Each translation is localized to the region and its intended audience for religious, cultural, social and political environments. Localization is the key to a high quality translation.