My Motto: To learn and teach the best that has been thought, written, and said

My Elevator Pitch:

I'm a high school and college/university English (ENL/ELL/ESL and ELA) and Spanish educator based in New York City. I also work full-time as a freelance translator. I have translated thousands of documents for legal, immigration status adjustment, credentials recognition, college/university admission, and other purposes. I cooperate with multiple US-based and overseas translation agencies, institutions, and private individuals, who, I believe, have always been very satisfied with my services.

Professional Affiliations:

NYC Department of Education, The City of University of New York (Hunter College & Kingsborough Community College), St. John's University, Pace University, and Queens Public Library

Professional Experience:

- education - transcripts of academic record, course descriptions, report cards, etc.

- certificates and diplomas - employment verification records, training completion certificates, etc.

- private correspondence - letters, e-mails, text messages, etc.

- linguistics - papers, abstracts, articles, etc.

- law - court decrees, legal correspondence, contracts, wills, etc.

- sport - articles, press releases, books, etc.

- travel - websites, brochures, leaflets, flyers, etc.

Educational Background: 

1) multilingual family and childhood

2) street smarts - The University of Life, Department of Lifelong Learning, School of Hard Knocks

2) extensive travels

3) obsessive efferent and aesthetic reading

4) "errors" and "mistakes"   

5) Master's Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

6) Master's Degree in Linguistics

7) DELE

8) DELF

Language Proficiency:

US English, Polish, Dominican Spanish, German

Cultural Literacy:

- in-depth knowledge of North American, Dominican, and German cultures

- solid knowledge of British, Colombian, Polish, and Spanish cultures

- extensive leisure travel experience

Professional and Personal Interests:

*applied linguistics

*applied science

*architecture

*art

*bridges

*Dominican life and institutions

*educational technology

*Florida (esp. Miami and the Everglades)

*higher education issues

*human brain

*idioms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, and slang (US Slang and Dominican "tigueraje")

*memory training

*MBE (Mind, Brain, and Education Science)

*mugs

*native peoples of the Americas

*New York City

*psychology

*reading

*samba and salsa

*tennis

*translation

*travels

*trains

*wildlife