Maria Eugenia Padron

Maria is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Linguistics, with a minor concentration on French Translation and Business Administration. She’s pursuing her degree in Truman State University, USA. She comes from Venezuela. She’s a native speaker of Spanish, and has C1 proficiency in English, and B2 proficiency in French. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, watching movies and series, spending time with friends and family, dancing, swimming, and learning about languages and different cultures. She’ll also be studying during this summer to acquire the CELTA certification to become an ESL teacher. She plans on becoming a researcher after getting her bachelor's degree and document the indigenous warao language and culture  in Venezuela. Having her Linguistics degree, CELTA certification and after becoming a certified translator in the future, she plans to keep on learning other languages, travel to different cultures, and help people understand each other and the world as a diverse place, with different languages and cultures within it, be it as a linguistic scientist, a teacher or a translator.

Her passion for languages and entrepreneurship led her to become an intern for Modlingua this summer of 2017. Eager to learn work on skills that can help her become a person that can create and manage projects and businesses, specially if oriented to the translation business as an entrepreneur, she will focus on the following areas while working for Modlingua: Computer Assisted Tools, web development, project management and quality standards, and social media marketing.