I am a Brazilian freelance translator with over 15 years of experience (since 1990) in the translation of documents from English into Brazilian Portuguese and almost 20 years of contacts (at various levels) with the English language and with the British and the American cultures, whose number has specially increased after my first connection to the internet (September 1995). In addition, I graduated from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), where I studied Portuguese and German languages and literatures from 1989 to 1996. After concluding the graduation and German courses at the Goethe-Institut São Paulo, I started to work as a professional translator from German into Brazilian Portuguese. From 1990 to 1994, I took part in open courses of English, Spanish, Italian and French at the USP. Meanwhile, from 1994, I have been several times to Europe, visiting thirteen countries and learning about their languages and cultures.