{"id":509,"date":"2023-06-01T22:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/om-oss\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:01:34","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About North Sea Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"

While conducting doctoral research in Copenhagen in 1994 on a Fulbright grant after completing my Master\u2019s Degree in Scandinavian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, I became interested in the Dutch language and ended up relocating to the Netherlands in 1995. I spent the first few years studying Dutch and perfecting my language skills. The decision to become a professional translator was an easy one because it combines my love of languages and the written word with a passion for creativity.<\/p>\n

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In 2006, I relocated to Norway, where I re-established my business. Completely by coincidence, I ended up 20 minutes away from the farm where my grandmother was born before her family emigrated to the U.S. I felt as if I had come full circle.<\/p>\n

When I first began translating, I received documents by fax and deadlines were long. Communication with the client was by phone or non-existent. My internet connection was dial-up and my office was filled with every imaginable kind of dictionary since, after all, Google did not yet exist. If I needed help with a tricky phrase or term, I had to pick up the phone to call another translator. Times have definitely changed. But even after more than two decades of translating, I still thoroughly enjoy the challenge that each and every text brings, regardless of size or subject matter.<\/p>\n

– Cindi Beckman Hansen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born and raised in the diverse and multicultural city of Los Angeles, California, I was exposed to foreign languages from a very young age. But it was my Scandinavian background that initially sparked my interest in learning Norwegian and Danish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northseatranslations.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}