Curriculum Vitae

Family name: / Besskó
First name: / Tamás
Date place of birth: / 18/04/1974, Budapest
Nationality: / Hungarian
Current address: / Szentendrei út 20. III/16 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Brigadnická 2 18200 Praha, Czech Republic
Contact: /
+420721284403
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Education

1999- 2004 / EötvösLorándUniversity, Budapest, Faculty of Arts, English Literature and Linguistics – teacher of English, translator
1994-1999 / University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Hungarian Literature and Linguistics - teacher of Hungarian grammar and literature, and Hungarian as a foreign language
1999 / Thesis in literature
Distopias in 20th century European and Hungarian literature
1994-1999 / University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Pedagogy – secondary school teacher
1999 / Thesis in Pedagogy
How do secondary school students imagine future? (research)
1998-1999 / University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, English Literature and Linguistics
1996-1998 / Vitéz János Roman Catholic College, Esztergom – studies on art of film
1998 / Thesis in Film Studies
Cobra Verde, placing a film in the Herzog universe
1988-1992 / FöldesFerencCommercialSecondary School, Budapest
Other Education
July 2001 / SummerUniversity at OvidiusUniversityConstanţa, Romania (Hungarian National Scholarship Committee)
July 2002 / SummerUniversity at AlexandruIoanCuzaUniversityIaşi, Romania
(Hungarian National Scholarship Committee)
2001-2003 / EötvösLorándUniversity, Budapest Faculty of Arts, Teaching Hungarian as a foreign language
2003-2004 / CharlesUniversity, Prague, Faculty of Arts, English Literature and Linguistics (CEEPUS Scholarship)
2006 - 2007 / English teacher assistant in Gymnazium Príbram, Czech Republic (Socrates scholarship)

Academic-related work

1997-2004 / Freelance translation (users manuals, subtitles, web, etc.)
1992-2004 / Private teaching (English, Hungarian literature, Hungarian grammar, Hungarian as a foreign language, History)
Jan 1999 / Pedagogical research on Northern Hungarian village schools (problems of minor village schools)
1999-2000 / PetőfiSándorSecondary School, Budapest – teacher of English
1999-2001 / RingLanguageSchool, Budapest – teacher of English and Hungarian as a foreign language
1999-2001 / CsepelSecondary School, Budapest – teacher of English, Hungarian grammar and literature
2001 - 2002 / Hungarian–English, English–Hungarian dictionary (editor). Published by Nesztor Publishing Limited Company May 2002
2003 / Writing syllabus of grammar for DigitalSecondary School (An initiative of Hungarian Ministry of Informatics)

Recent Major translations

-BBC – subtitling (Recently translated: Holby City, One Foot in the Grave, Walter’s War, Planets),
-StarCraft II PC game translation,
-Disney-games translation,
-Mazda service and user manuals (all current models),
-Bosch CCTV systems,
-Canon printer manuals, Canon cameras – camcorders,
-Bosch Interus,
-Honda manual,
-Bosch Autodome systems,
-Film subtitling – Bulgarski Text Ltd. (Just like Heaven, Wallace and Gromit and the Course of Were-rabbit),
-Psychiatrist interviews (DVDs),
-Promethean software user’s guides, help files,
-DVD recorder’s user’s manual – Metro-trans Language Service,
-Mobile telephone’ menu – Alpha translations, Canada Inc.,
-PC, Play station games,
-ABBYY FineReader software,
-Automobile industry – Honda, Suzuki

Languages

English – Cambridge Proficiency (Fluent)
Czech – A1 Level exam
Hungarian – native speaker