Verba·Team Translations
- Who We Are -
We are a team of professional translators who studied together at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation (Ionian University, Corfu). Our passion and expertise in translation led us to establish a translation company in order to facilitate communication across languages, cultures and countries.
Our main motive is Unity in diversity.
Eleni Gkountelou
Eleni graduated from the Department of foreign languages Translations and Interpreting, Ionian university. She is obsessed with translation, subtitling and the field of linguistics.
Languages: Greek, French, English.
Skills: organization, adaptability, patience, time management, computer skills, problem solving, creativity, team spirit.
Thanos Chrysanthopoulos
Thanos cannot imagine tomorrow without translation. He is always eager to dive into new translation and subtitling projects, because he loves new challenges. As an AVT translation geek, he thinks that Subtitling is his job, Stage Translation is his profession & Audio Description is his inspiration. He never misses an opportunity to translate a legal, political or economic text. His great passion is literary translation, because he feels free to invent himself & play with the intentions of the author. "Translating is staging a play in another language", Hans Sahl said. This is what he believes in. Give him a text and he will do his best for a new translation performance.
Languages: Greek, English, Spanish, French
Skills: creative, original, killer storyteller, avant-garde
Konstantinos Menyktas
Konstantinos is not born a translator but he aims to become one. He has translated technical texts about HIV and AIDS and articles which concern sex workers and their protection (safe sex, work conditions). He is currently working at the news agency “Orthodox Times”, where he translates texts about religion, spirituality, and politics. In the meantime, he is doing a M.A. in Conference Interpreting at the Scientific College of Greece (SCI). Once, he read an interview of the Greek translator of Umberto Eco, Efi Kallifatidi, who said: “The translator is like a tabula rasa, a blank slate. However, he has a lot of knowledge which helps him or her to start from the very beginning every time he translates a new book. It is something like a blank start.”
Languages: Greek, English, French
Learns: Russian
Skills: motivated, fast learner, curious, devoted to his profession and hobbies
Vasia Smani
Vasia graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature and continued her studies at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting. Being a literature geek, she gladly takes on any Transcreation Project.
Languages: Greek, English, French
Skills: creativity, patience, focused on details
Diana Theofilidi
Diana is a native speaker of Greek and Russian and specializes in legal and literary translation between English, German, Greek and Russian. Having a spectrum as wide as in four languages helps in the accuracy of the translated work. Great at problem solving and communication.
Languages: Greek, Russian, English, German
Skills: attentive to detail, inventive, great in communicating and cooperating with people
Martyna Olchawa
Martyna specializes in legal, economic and technical texts. She is a strong EU believer and she never misses the opportunity to translate European and International texts. Her recent engagement with Software Localization and Marketing texts made her believe that translation is indeed a creative process. Before starting her translation process she has an irrational obsession to listen to music in the target language to get her mindset ready. Her favorite quote is by George Steiner who says that “Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence”.
Languages: Greek, Polish, English, French
Skills: workaholic, multitasking, communication skills, researcher
Angeliki Koletsou
Angeliki is constantly searching for unknown places and whenever that’s not possible for unknown meanings. She has worked as a freelance and in-house translator and copywriter, with English and German as her working languages. She believes that a translator is firstly a cultural mediator and that translation is an active and sometimes an activist process. That’s why she has voluntarily translated numerous texts for NGOs.
Languages of the Brain: English, German
Language of the Heart: Russian
Skills: innovative, creative, meticulous
- Services -
Translation
official, legal, financial, literary, medical, marketing
Subtitling
movies, series, documentaries, videos
Localization
Proofreading
full & light post-editing
