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Sonia Atkins
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Sonia Atkins "The World's Leading Arabic & French Interpreter"
' Sonia gained most of her professional experience by working freelance for many interpretation companies, government agencies, corporate entities, and private individuals worldwide in all Arabic dialects. From Tunisia, Africa and her native language is Arabic but she also speak French which she was taught from birth because Tunisia was once a colony of France. As a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and being an Arabic speaker from Tunisia, She had a chance to interact and learn to communicate with Arabs from all over the world. So over the years with that and interpreting globally over-the-phone She became fluent in over twenty different Arabic dialects. her husband is an American born in Michigan and our two sons, ages 17 & 20 are both born in the US. They speak only English in their home and as a result over the years She became exceptionally fluent in English. She of course studied Arabic, French and English in school. She grew up reading, writing and speaking in English, Arabic, and French. Because it is mandatory to learn English in high schools in Tunisia, She took English courses for three years and She also took more English courses in the US at Georgia Tech.

• Currently she is the leading, most proficient, most requested, and in most cases, the only Moroccan Arabic interpreter in the world for several of the top five over-the-phone interpretation companies. Companies sometimes wait over an hour with their clients until I am available. I have operated in that position for these companies for over ten years. She is the only person that they have that can communicate effectively in over twenty of the Arabic dialects especially Moroccan.

• She has been interpreting in Arabic & French for over fourteen years.

• She has a great deal of experience in conference interpreting. She currently travels globally, for ICANN (http://www.icann.org/) as one of their interpreters for an Elite Global Interpreting Team that travels the world annually interpreting for three to four major ten day conferences per year which is held in a different country every time. Recently traveled to Canada, Beijing China, and Durban South Africa. She is headed to Buenos Aries, Argentina in 2014 and then Singapore next. And is booked for at least the next five years with them.

• She is known worldwide for my proficiency in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation.

• She is currently considered to be the world’s leading Arabic & French interpreter because of the breadth and diversity of my experience and skill sets with over fourteen years experience as a professional freelance interpreter and translator.

• She has become known worldwide for my ability to produce the highest quality translated, and graphically identical birth, death, and, marriage certificates in the world.

• She is currently the main Arabic interpreter for the Social Security Administration and the Federal Immigration Courts in the Southeastern part of the United States through the number one translation and interpretation company in the world. I travel weekly from the Carolina’s to the Caribbean interpreting for all Arabic dialects

• She reads, writes, and speaks over twenty different Arabic dialects that includes Moroccan, Lebanese, Palestinian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Sudanese, Egyptian, Algerian, Libyan, Emirati, Saudi Arabian, Tunisian and many other different dialects such as Yemeni, Iraqi, Omani, Syrian, Bahraini, Qatari, and Djibouti plus French, French Canadian, and most importantly, English fluently.

She is certified as a court interpreter through the Administrative Office of the Courts of The Georgia Commission on Interpreters AOC (see the Hall County Georgia section), a division of the Supreme Court of Georgia which is in a consortium with 39 other states which She is also court certified to interpret in. She is the first and only certified Arabic interpreter for the state of Georgia and the consortium.