{"id":4211,"date":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avison.se\/meet-stephanie-project-manager-and-all-round-language-lover\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:00:00","slug":"meet-stephanie-project-manager-and-all-round-language-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/meet-stephanie-project-manager-and-all-round-language-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Stephanie! Project manager and all-round language lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avison.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Stephanie-with-dog1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-sJAoPT9w\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3488\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avison.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Stephanie-with-dog1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>Stephanie, project manager here at Avison, has been working with languages in some capacity for the last twenty-five years. \u00a0She started as a book editor in New York and then worked as a freelance editor, teacher and writer when she started moving around every few years (to Russia, Prague, France, Philippines, Turkey and of course, Sweden!).\u00a0She&#8217;s been with Avison now since the beginning of 2015. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0Fact sheet:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211; Main areas of interest:<\/span> Languages in all forms. \u201cLiking to talk and meet people is one of the best motivators for learning a language.\u00a0Plus it&#8217;s so much fun to be able to eavesdrop on the bus.\u201d\u00a0Stephanie\u2019s studied four languages herself and has worked as a teacher and translator in several of them, so our clients can be comfortable that Stephanie at some point has probably been in their shoes with whatever tricky language situation they are trying to sort out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211; Favourite areas of work:<\/span> Apart from writing fiction, which is more fun than any job should be allowed to be, Stephanie says editing is also rewarding as it&#8217;s like cleaning your house &#8211; the results are so immediate and noticeable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211; Hobbies:<\/span>\u00a0Writing, reading, trying to whip into shape a reluctant garden that is constantly on the verge of going to seed.\u00a0Talking about how great her dog is (\u201creally, she&#8217;s the best\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211; Book last read:<\/span> Stephanie is semi-obsessed with old mysteries from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, at a pinch. The last book she read was A Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211; What she likes most about Stockholm:<\/span> How silent it is in the winter in the forest. \u201cYou can hear the ice knitting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8211;\u00a0What she likes least about Stockholm<\/span>: Stephanie grew up in Washington DC, a place that has very orderly seasons that are allotted three months each.\u00a0She is horrified by the sight of snow in May or heaven forbid, June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are always looking for experienced, creative and thorough translators, as well as proofreaders, interpreters and language trainers. <a title=\"Translate for us\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avison.se\/work-for-us\/\">Get in contact with us here if you are interested in working with us.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie, project manager here at Avison, has been working with languages in some capacity for the last twenty-five years. \u00a0She started as a book editor in New York and then worked as a freelance editor, teacher and writer when she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-firstpage","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avison.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}