education
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