Alice Perna

Alice Perna

Student at University of Siena, Italy

TED Translator
Arezzo, Italy
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About Alice

I am a…

Student

I'm passionate about

I have always been passionate about languages and translation. I started learning English at the age of 5, French at the age of 11 and Spanish at 14. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Translation and I am now completing a Master's in Languages for Business and Development with a thesis on audiovisual translation, more specifically on the translation and subtitling process of films from Italian into English.

The TED story

I was told by a Professor at University that I could be a volounteer for Ted. Since I was very young I have always watched TedTalks, often wondering why they had no subtitles in Italian as I was still in the process of learning English. I was so excited when I found out I could translate and immediately started. While I would love to spend more time translating and subtitling for TED, any free moment I get from university is dedicated to it!