Hi, I’m Kim Webb.
I am just a polyglot who is obsessed with everything language-related and who wants to share my skills with the world.
After years of being an employee and having to decide on just one job title, I finally took a leap of faith and started my own business with the goal to focus all the things I love about languages. Having defined my skills in different areas over the past years, I am able to offer all different services surrounding languages instead of focusing on one. I no longer have to decide whether I want to translate or whether I want to copyedit, or write. I can do it all! And the best of all, I can offer it to others. To you! And share my love for language and my attention for detail and creativity.
My Background
It all began with a little girl who annoyed her parents for constantly correcting them…
Education
I obtained my Bachelor of Arts in English, Spanish, and French Literature as well as Linguistics from the Universität zu Köln in Germany. During my bachelor journey, I spent one semester abroad to focus on translation courses at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.
I then continued my journey at the Universität zu Köln and obtained my Master of Arts in English and Spanish Literature and Linguistics.
Finally, I continued my academic journey and earned my doctorate with summa cum laude from the University of West Florida in the US.
Additionally, I hold a high school teaching certificate for Germany, my PMP, and an official Spanish and English translation certificate.
Work Experience
Moving around in the world and having so many options what to do professionally with languages, left me indecisive of what I wanted to do with my life. Already during my time as a student, I worked as a tutor, high school teacher, community college adjunct, copyeditor, content writer, and translator.
Once I graduated with my master’s, I knew I wanted to share my love for languages, and I decided that I would focus on teaching. I started teaching at a high school in the US and quickly learned that my love for languages is neither common nor normal. In a country where language just does not seem to be the focal point of education, I had to shift my career plans and focus on figuring out how I can teach but don’t teach students who are forced to sit in my class just because they thought it was the easiest choice and they needed their x amount of years taking a language without really wanting to do it. They simply had to do it but had no interest in putting any effort into it.
More Work Experience
That is when I decided, I would work on my doctorate to have a better chance to teach at a university with students who choose languages because they are either passionate about them or because they have an interest in them for career purposes. Either way I thought my audience would be much better to work with than high school student who are forced to sit in my class.
While I worked on my doctorate, I thought about other possibilities to share my love for languages. I turned to online education and started sharing my love by writing content for online courses, copyediting existing content, and translation content from one language to another, hoping I could partake in improving online learning materials and making them more engaging and interesting. I liked it and I stayed.
And More Work Experience
As with any career, as you advance and climb up the corporate ladder, your job becomes more about leading than about the core task that you liked to do which as the reason you started this career in the first place. So as the years, went by and I moved up to Project Manager I and then to Project Manager II, I realized that my current day to day job has nothing to do with what I love which is working with language instead of leading other people in doing exactly that.
I decided to go back to what I love and instead of deciding to apply to one position only (e.g., copyeditor vs. translator), I started my own business so I can offer all services I love and thrive in revolving languages.
So here I am offering translations, copyediting, proofreading, and writing depending on what you need!