Forget about a translator being a "native" or not. Go for the outcome, period.

The readers of your translated documents couldn't care less about the mother tongue of the individual who translated them (if they can tell at all)
Yet the translation quality is what provides them with more or less reading comfort, the one key component oftentimes...

Professional translator and freelancer. Specialised in art (translator of a street art magazine), videogames localisation (3 years in-house) and media in general (Internet, apps, etc.). Uses Trados.
I am a French native speaker and have been living in England and Ireland for 3 years.

I started translating as a freelance as soon as I graduated with high honours from the Institute for Translators and Interpreters in Brussels in 2010. My final dissertation focused on chronobiology as I am fond of science. Since then, I have been translating documents for the European Parliament and other projects in the administrative sector. I speciali...

I am fully bilingual (French and English).
I started translating 12 years ago when I was at University and one of my lecturers asked me to translate a book by French author Pierre Bourdieu into English. The translation was 12000 words.
I have since done translation for websites, advertising, film scripts, book translation, technical manuals,...

Legal Financial Technical Translation who had been in the Translation Industry since 1980, I am backed up by a Degree of Business and a Diploma of Translation, plus a Diploma of Law and a Diploma of Polytechnic Engineering.
In all my areas of my expertise I do translate what I know, not at all a dictionaries consulting amateurism exercise but as a S...

I was brought up in French and in German (although after living for several years in Singapore and in the Netherlands my English is now better than my German).
I take great pleasure in speaking and reading in foreign languages (I've been learning mandarin for 4 years).
My father, a doctor, has taken up medical translation jobs from big pharmac...

I am accomplished IT and marketing professional with domestic and international experience. During the past 37 years I have completed a variety of translations for several companies. In addition I lived in the UK for a number of years where I studied and worked in different fields including my own company. My work also included training. English is my eve...

• A focus on translation of English technical documents in French oriented towards French-Canadian and Quebec markets. Broad experience in research report writing for scientific journals, technical bulletins and advertising documents. Interested in maintaining web-sites content for Canadian non-government organizations.

• Specializing in translatin...