Philip Saffery (Toi Te Reo Manager)

14-16 Vineyard Rd,
Swanson,
Auckland 1008,
Aotearoa - New Zealand
tel: (649) 836 5659
fax: (649) 835 0360
mobile : (64)25 688 1069
e-mail: philip@toitereo.com

WHAT WE DO
* Commercial, medical and legal translators * Text editors
* Language and Cultural instructors * Proofreaders * Tour guides
* Technical writers * Cross-cultural export consultants * ESOL for business * Software localization * Web site translation * Video and film sound tracks * * Foreign language audio recording * Telephone interpreting
* Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting * Certified and sworn translations

WHO WE ARE
A widely experienced, multipurpose team of linguists with great people & communication skills, excellent at troubleshooting and providing solutions for cross-cultural enterprises

Skilled in translation into and from the major European commercial languages.

Offering Pacific languages like Maori, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan and Fijian.

Established in 1989 by Philip Saffery, an Auckland-based Applied Linguist, Toi Te Reo now operates as an e-network of international linguists.

WHY USE US ?
Each job is assigned to a native translator and a bilingual editor for quality assurance.
Excellent references available from satisfied New Zealand and overseas clients

Formal qualifications of Manager, Philip Saffery
MA Hons (1st class in Russian with French), Victoria 1970
MA (Linguistics/TESL) Wales, 1975
Dip Education, Massey
Cert. Comm. Interpreting, AIT
Dip Teaching NZ
NZ primary-trained Registered Teacher
NAATI French Translator
Full Member NZ Society of Interpreters & Translators (NZSTI)

Interpreting & translation experience of Manager, Philip Saffery
As Toi Te Reo Services, free-lance French conference interpreter, translator and editor (Director since 1989)

Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre, Trainer for Community Interpreter courses

Russian English Liaison and Public Health Interpreter since 1989

Deaf Association of NZ, Project Development Manager and training organiser, Interpreting Service, 1995 (NZ Sign Language)

Maori, Samoan and Italian translation editor (TTRS and NZTC)

Auckland University of Technology - Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies interpreter assessment panel (French and English)

Unitec Auckland, Guest Lecturer on Bachelors Programme intepreting papers

NAATI (Australia) Samoan interpreting examiner since 1994

Registered Interpreters at:
Refugee Status Appeals Authority
WINZ
Auckland District Court
Otahuhu District Court
Auckland Public Health
New Zealand Translation Centre
Land Transport Safety Authority
Wellington Community Interpreting Service
ITS Middlemore
NZ Qualifications Authority
NZ Immigration Service
Auckland Police
Waitemata District Health Board
Caisse de Prévoyance Sociale - CPS Tahiti

Client list available for references as required

Note on Polynesian:
Philip is a former Maori language teacher and member of Nga Kaiwhakapumau i te Reo (Wellington Maori Language Board). He is also an examiner for Samoan for NAATI and with skills in Tahitian and Fijian.

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