Native Language: French
Working Languages: Spanish and English into French
Other Languages: Russian, Italian
Specialist Fields: commercial communication, economics, marketing, finance, law, sociology

Language Experience: Jean-Luc Michelin lived for four years in Bogota, Colombia, where he worked as a French<>Spanish translator and interpreter recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has worked as a conference interpreter and translator of technical and official documents for government institutions such as the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the French Embassy, and the Andean Parliament, and for multinational companies such as CGEA Vivendi.

He lived in Spain for over three years and has traveled widely in both Central and South America, giving him a finely tuned sensitivity to the terminological specifics of Iberian and Latin American Spanish. He is also fluent in English, which has been his day-to-day communications tool on many occasions throughout his professional and personal career. But he is first and foremost a specialist in French, and is specifically interested in studying the terminological differences between French as it is spoken in Quebec and in France.

Other Experience: Jean-Luc Michelin studied at the École Supérieure de Commerce (Advanced Business School) in Rouen (France). He worked for more than ten years in marketing and communication (direct marketing, market surveys and communication strategies), mainly in France but also in Spain and Italy. Today this experience gives him a considerable edge in two areas: the first in marketing, where he has a concrete vision of a service that really caters to the market and listens to customers' needs; and the second, his specialist language fields.