education
Italian C2 CELI (Certificato di Lingua Italiana) 
examination organised by the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy, https://www.unistrapg.it/
Proficiency Level: C2 (higly competent speaker), after intensive self-study September - November 2024
method: 'CELI Test di preparazione, Certificato di Conoscenza della Lingua Italiana' by Chiara Cervoni and Dora Gatti (Ornimi 2022)
Sessione d'esame all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam, il 20 novembre 2024, https://iicamsterdam.esteri.it/it/
Punteggio comprensivo: 157/200 (buono):
1. Prova orale: 48/50 (ottimo)
2. Prova scritta:
◦ Comprensione della lettura = punteggio 34/40 (buono)
◦ Produzione di testi scritti = punteggio 41/60 (sufficiente)
◦ Competenza linguistica = punteggio 15/20 (buono)
◦ Comprensione dell'Ascolto = punteggio 19/30 (sufficiente)
Latin
- Addisco, Hilversum: Level Beginners II; teacher Casper Porton; method: Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, Pars I Familia Romana (May 2017-September 2019), www.addisco.nl
- Volksuniversiteit Amstelveen: Level Beginners I, teacher Rudi Frank; method: Fortuna 1 (September 2016 - April 2017)
Certified Dutch Language Trainer (Dutch as Second Language, NT2)
From January to November 2011, I successfully completed a teaching experience portfolio and subsequently obtained a certificate 'Competent Teacher of Dutch as a Second Language' during an interview at Vrije Universteit (VU) Amsterdam with assessors Marijke Pos & Yvonne Zevenbergen, 10 November 2011. This certificate is registered with Professional Associations Dutch as a Second Language (Beroepsvereniging Nederlands als Tweede Taal - BVNT2), Amsterdam
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, nt2.vu.nl/en
- Beroepsvereniging Nederlands als Tweede Taal (BVNT2), Amsterdam, bvnt2.org/test/register
- January - November 2011
Advanced Speaker & Competent Teacher of Bahasa Indonesia
Intensive, private and classroom Indonesian language training of Indonesian Language & Culture; Teaching skills, didactics, teaching strategies
- July - August 2005 (six weeks): Bahasa Indonesia (advanced) & Javanese Language Course (elementary); Bahasa Indonesia Teaching skills, didactics & teaching strategies
- September - November 1996: six hours daily, prior to VSO mission as an English lecturer at UKI (Universitas Kristen Indonesia), Makale, Tana Toraja, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia (November 1996 - March 1999), vsointernational.org/volunteer
- Wisma Bahasa, Yogyakarta - Indonesia, wisma-bahasa.or.id
Highschool ('Tweedegraads') English Teaching Degree & Didactics for Dutch as a Second Language Teaching Degree
- Tweedegraads Engels & NT2 didactische aantekening NT2
- Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, hva.nl
- 1995 – 1996
Translator Dutch, English & Italian (Belgian Higher Education Diploma)
Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers & Tolken (HIVT), University of Antwerp Degree in Tranlsation
- University thesis: La Sicilia come metafora (1989), "Sicilië als metafoor" (Sicily as a Metaphore) by Leonardo Sciascia, an Annotated Translation, 160pp.
- Licentiaat vertaler Engels & Italiaans, Dutch, English, Italian & Chinese
- Higher Institute for Translators and Interpreters (HIVT); susequently: Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen; currently: Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium, ap.be
- September 1987 – June 1991
Chinese Language & Culture certificate (BA)
- Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia - Italy: unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=1
- October 1986 – June 1987
Italian Language & Culture
Advanced Language proficiency certificates (four courses of two months each)
- Scuola di Lingua & Cultura per Stranieri, Siena - Italy; currently: Università per Stranieri di Siena, Ateneo Internazionale: unistrasi.it
- July 1985 – June 1986
Highschool Degree (Pre-University, Sciences)
HAVO & Atheneum-B High School Diploma
- Revius Lyceum, Doorn - The Netherlands: revius.nl
- September 1977 – June 1985