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Burmese to English: Health Care GP General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Medical: Health Care
Translation - English I am not feeling very well.
Where is the chemist?
English to Burmese: From child refugee to president: Latvia's Vaira Vike-Freiberga General field: Other Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English The little girl who fled from war-torn Latvia spent more than 50 years in exile - but soon after returning she became president.
Not only that, Vaira Vike-Freiberga became the first female head of a former Soviet bloc state. The family's odyssey westward took Vaira, aged seven, first to devastated Germany. Then they moved to French-ruled Morocco, then to Canada. She did not return to Latvia until 1998, aged 60, and became president within eight months. "We took the ship on New Year's night of 1945. It was a transport ship with troops and with armaments and of course if it gets torpedoed it's going to blow it up. But they have taken a certain number of civilians with them, who also want to flee from communism at any price. Latvians gathered on the deck and sang the Latvian anthem."
The family reached the refugee camps being set up across Germany. The conditions were very harsh and her baby sister fell ill with pneumonia and died, just 10 months old.
Within a year Vaira's mother gave birth again, to a baby boy.
At the age of 11, Vaira had to move again, to Casablanca in French Morocco.
"We were thrown out, as it were, from a truck in the middle of the night.One of her father's Arab co-workers said she was ready to be married off, though she was just a child.
She studied psychology and was eventually awarded a PhD, in 1965. Vaira spent 33 years at the University of Montreal. She became fluent in five languages and wrote 10 books.
In 1998, aged 60, she was elected professor emeritus and decided to retire.
But one evening her phone rang. It was the prime minister of Latvia. And Vaira got the offer to head a new Latvian Institute.
She gave up her Canadian passport to run for election and, just eight months after returning, she became Latvia's first female president.
Vaira's second term ended in 2007, a few months before her 70th birthday. She co-founded the Club de Madrid - an organisation of former leaders, with a mandate to promote democratic leadership and governance. She also has a particular focus on women's empowerment.
A Burmese interpreter/translator, originally from Myanmar ( Burma) who has been living in the UK for over ten years. I studied English literature and graduated from the University of Sittwe in 2005. I have studied tourism management, arts and humanities and humanities and social science degree in the UK. I have a wealth of work experience in different sectors such as the hotel and tourism, health and social care, education and currently working in the IT sector. I have been translated and interpreted (Burmese - English) as a freelancer for a couple of years. I am passionate about different traditions and cultures, environmental issues and helping out others.
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