Working languages:
English (monolingual)
English to Turkish
Turkish to English

zafer avsar
subtitle and dubbing translator

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
Local time: 05:53 +03 (GMT+3)

Native in: Turkish Native in Turkish
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Name:                                     Zafer Avşar                                                              

 

Nationality:                           Turkey

 

Mother tongue:                    Turkish

 

Languages:                           English, (advanced) Kurdish (upper
intermediate) Spanish (basic),

 

Education:                 

Department of Management in Gazi University

Faculty of Economics and Administrative

Sciences in Ankara,
Suffolk Community
College in the USA

                                         

 

Expertise
Field
:                    

Dubbing, subtitling, literature, historical
archaeological books, automotive, essays and scientific writings, documentaries,
movies, cartoons, medical documentaries and manuals of medical equipments.  

 

Experience (years):          15+

 

Some
works done
:   

Translations of
almost 300 movies, serials, cartoons, documentaries. 

7 Books: From
the ashes of Angels, Tutankhamun by Andrew Collins, Nineve and its remains by
Henry Austen Layard. How to Learn a Foreign Language by Graham Fuller etc. Out
of Turkey by Harry Yessaian, Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian, Joyce by
Richard Ellmann, Narrative Essays by George Orwell, Tolstoy (A Russian's Life)
by Rosamund Bartlett,

 

Subtitling of
many movies and educational materials

like Big Lebowsky, Brazil,
and listless Netflix movies through Sfera studios

 

                                   Some
documentaries: Why chimpanzees cries dogs smile

Naked science
(solar force), Planet science, Don't tell my mother that I am in Afghanistan
(Colombia, Congo, 3 episodes) The Cambrian Explosion of Life, Feral dogs,  Clandestine creatures in the city. Backyard science
(20 episodes), Rediscovering biology (7 episodes), Inside of Bethlehem

Kidney transplant,
The Shak, Secret hearth.

Cartoons: Spirou
(5 episodes), Yet it moves (39 episodes)   

Serials: New
Lassie (5 episodes)

 

Some movies: Australia,
Misery  (Dubbing translations)

I have made many
subtitle translations for Softitler and Netflix

 

Interpreting:              I made a
consecutive translation for an auditing company.

 

I am also as a
free interpreter, working for SOS telephone based translating company.

 

Other
translations: Legal documents like contracts, regulations, minutes of the
proceedings, financial reports, balance sheets. Profit/loss statements.  Plant dictionary, agricultural subjects like
drop irrigations.

 

 

 

Besides, I have two humour books
published in Turkey.

 

 

                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

Keywords: movie translation, subtitle translation, techical translation, automotive, electronic, law, business, web pages,


Profile last updated
Nov 5, 2020