I bet you’d been in one of those situations when you needed someone to help you with a simple (sometimes silly) task that you just couldn’t manage since you didn’t speak French. I’m fortunate to have many French-speaking colleagues who are always happy to help with translation or making a call, but for things that I prefer to do “privately”, most of the time I feel helpless.

So imagine how happy I was to learn about the service offered by Béatrice Reid. Béatrice comes from France (born in Nantes) and is a qualified freelance translator (MA in Bilingual Translation English-French). She worked in London for 10 years and in New York for 3 years. She and her husband moved to Vaud in 2008. Béatrice offers help to do your daily tasks, whether to fill in some forms on your behalf, to write to your French correspondence, to make phone calls or appointments with local businesses. She can also translate any type of document, from your rental agreement to letters to CVs.

Béatrice can be very flexible with the assignments she works on. This also allows her to build a personal and strong working relationship with her clients and customize her services to their needs for each assignment. She provides a fast, professional and reasonably priced service. Typically, her mimimum fee is 20CHF (for instance, for a phone call or a follow up with a translation in English). Otherwise, depending on the assignment, it’s charged by the hour: 35CHF/hour for ‘bilingual assistance’ (such as to accompany somebody to a meeting, organise a house search, do the paperwork to declare the cleaner or babysitter to the AVS or Chèque-emploi, etc.)

For more information, you can contact Béatrice at:

Béatrice Reid
Traductions / Assistance bilingue
Ch. des Curzilles, 14
1170 Aubonne
Tel. 079 532 72 47
beatrice_reid(AT)hotmail.com

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