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English Variant Linguist (Remote)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Native English speaker
  • Grammar expert
  • Reliable with excellent attention to detail
  • Thorough knowledge of English linguistics, grammar, morphology, and vocabulary, with up-to-date understanding of slang and regional colloquialisms

Responsibilities

  • Assess words or terms across formal to colloquial or offensive, determining spelling, meaning, usage, ambiguity, sensitivity, and locale-appropriateness via an online portal.
  • Conduct research on locale-specific terminology and provide short reports.
  • Perform large lexicon clean-up tasks and ensure consistency across English variants.
  • Research and verify locale-specific usage across English variants (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa).

Key facts

Other skills

  • Grammar
  • Report Writing
  • Detail Oriented
  • Reliability

About the company

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LocalEyes Ltd.

Translation & Localization

LocalEyes is the perfect partner for the world’s industry leaders, exponential organisations and fast-growing companies. We present you to the world, taking your business case out into the international market. We provide our clients with: - Support for fast and effective worldwide content distribution on all media - Outsourced administration of part of the Customer Localisation Workflow - International standardization of high quality contents - International standardization of tone of voice - Cultural adaptation

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryTranslation & Localization
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

This is a remote position.

 

LocalEyes Group is a leading provider of Localization Services to the international computer and software sectors with headquarters in Ireland and subsidiaries in Europe and the US. We work with the world's most innovative companies. We help them to grow and expand in new markets providing experts and cultural awareness.

 

LocalEyes is looking for an English Variant Linguist to join its growing community of freelancers.


Scope of work:

The majority of the work involves the following tasks:

 

  • Assessing words or terms (from formal or standard to colloquial or slang/offensive). This involves determining preferred spelling, meaning, usage, possible ambiguity or sensitivity, and appropriateness for the locale. 
  • The above is done through an online portal. 
  • This type of work includes support for English variants in the following locales : U.S.A, Australia, Canada, Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa. The candidate should be comfortable with all of these locales and be confident about doing the required research. Generally requests deal with standard English, but some do require knowing more about colloquial use or very locale-specific things (e.g. products, politics, culture/traditions, etc.).

 

Other requests include the following tasks:

  • Conduct research in various areas and provide short reports. 
  • Large lexicon clean-up requests. 
  • Researching locale-specific terminology.


Requirements:
On top of being:
  • Native speaker
  • Grammar expert
  • Reliable
The candidate must demonstrate to have an excellent attention to detail and an outstanding grasp of English linguistics, grammar, morphology, and vocabulary, being thoroughly up-to-date with current usage in various English speaking countries, including slang and other regional colloquialisms.

Workload:

Average workload is 10 to 12 hrs per week. 


Contract type: Freelance

Start date: January 2022

Pay: By the hour




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